Clinch Mountain Echo

CMB Birthdays this month:

04 Feb 1972 - Steve Sparkman. Harlan, Kentucky.

04 Feb 1906 - Art Wooten. Born 'Arthur James Wooten' in Alleghany, North Carolina.

11 Feb 1960 - Junior Blankenship. Born at the old Grundy Hospital, Grundy, Va.

25 Feb 1927 - Ralph Stanley. Born 'Ralph Edmund Stanley' in Big Spraddle Creek, near Stratton, McClure, Virginia.

29 Feb 1932 - Jim Williams. Born 'James Lee Williams' in Wythe County, Virginia.


In Memoriam:

05 Feb 1980 - Chubby Anthony. Gainesville, Alachua, Florida.

08 Feb 2003 - Ralph 'Joe' Meadows. Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland.

08 Feb 1987 - Harold 'Red' Stanley. Fentress, Tennessee.


For the Official Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys site, visit:

Ralph II ralph2.com


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Ralph Stanley - Snow Covered Mound

(Stanley Tone RSR 1154) 1980


Snow Covered Mound

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This Gospel album was recorded at Lowell Varney's Riverside Recording Studios in Crum, Va on the 27th Feb 1980. Sadly, it hasn't been issued on CD...

Wreck On The Highway (aka I Didn't Hear Nobody Pray) was written by Dorsey Dixon in 1937 after a serious road accident in Rockingham, Nc.[1] I had thought that The Stanley Brothers had recorded it, but apparently not... The Louvin Brothers, Roy Acuff, Carl Story, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper did though.

Snow Covered Mound, Go Down Moses and Tarry With Me Oh My Saviour are performed a cappella, with the latter track 'lined' by Ralph. Snow Covered Mound had previously been recorded by Ralph, with fiddle/bass accompaniment and at a much faster tempo on his King Over The Sunset Hill LP.

Tarry With Me Oh My Saviour has a lovely rich vocal blend, including David and Chester Marshall of The Marshall Family. It sounds archaic.

Guide Me Through Great Jehova is also interesting as it's set to the melody/chord structure of Man Of Constant Sorrow (or is it the other way 'round?).

A version of Harbor Of Love, the old Carter Stanley chestnut, closes the album.

Originally issued on Ralph's "Stanley Tone" label, the album was later reissued in a new cover by Rebel (Rebel REB 1613) 1984.

  • Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
  • Junior Blankenship: lead guitar
  • Curly Ray Cline: fiddle
  • Jack Cooke: bass
  • Chester 'Pop' Marshall: harmonica, vocals
  • David Marshall: vocal (*)
  • Charlie Sizemore: guitar, vocals

NB: (*) vocal on the a cappella Tarry With Me Oh My Saviour.

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
Wreck On The Highway
02:41
27 Feb 1980
Snow Covered Mound

Rev. Dorsey Murdoch Dixon Jr.
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs Hr  
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
Chester 'Pop' Marshall
 
A-2
Troublesome Water
03:09
27 Feb 1980
Snow Covered Mound

J.B. Karnes / Ernest Rippetoe
  Ld Vcl - Bjo Hrmy Vcl - Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
A-3
God Who Never Fails
01:57
27 Feb 1980
Snow Covered Mound

David Marshall
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs Hr  
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
Chester 'Pop' Marshall
 
A-4
On Heaven's Bright Shore
03:24
27 Feb 1980
Snow Covered Mound

Roscoe Reed
  Ld Vcl Hrmny Vcl - Gtr   Hrmny Vcl - Ld Gtr Hrmny Vcl - Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
A-5
Dip Your Fingers In Some Water
02:07
27 Feb 1980
Snow Covered Mound

P.D. arr R. Stanley
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
A-6
Snow Covered Mound
03:20
27 Feb 1980
Snow Covered Mound

A.L. Walker
  Tn Vcl Ld Vcl Gtr Bt Vcl Bs Vcl    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
Chester 'Pop' Marshall
 
 
B-1
Keys To The Kingdom
01:48
27 Feb 1980
Snow Covered Mound

P.D. arr R. Stanley
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
B-2
Will They Miss Me
03:23
27 Feb 1980
Snow Covered Mound

P.D. arr R. Stanley
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
B-3
Go Down Moses
01:36
27 Feb 1980
Snow Covered Mound

P.D.
  Ld Vcl Bt Vcl Gtr Tn Vcl      
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
 
B-4
Guide Me Through Great Jehova
03:07
27 Feb 1980
Snow Covered Mound

P.D. arr R. Stanley
  Ld Vcl - Bjo Gtr Fid Ld Gtr Bs    
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
 
 
B-5
Tarry With Me Oh My Saviour
05:38
27 Feb 1980
Snow Covered Mound

P.D. arr R. Stanley
  Ld Vcl Hrmny Vcl Hrmny Vcl Hrmny Vcl Hrmny Vcl Hrmny Vcl  
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
David Marshall
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
Chester 'Pop' Marshall
 
B-6
Harbor Of Love
05:38
27 Feb 1980
Snow Covered Mound

C. Stanley
  Tn Vcl - Bjo Ld Vcl - Gtr Fid Hrmny Vcl - Ld Gtr Hrmny Vcl - Bs Hrmny Vcl  
  Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Curly Ray Cline
Junior Blankenship
Jack Cooke
Chester 'Pop' Marshall
 

NB: Liner notes don't specify instruments/vocal parts for individual tracks, so the above breakdown may not be correct.

Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover Side One Side Two

Front Cover (Reissue) Rear Cover (Reissue) Side One (Reissue) Side Two (Reissue)

[1] See http://www.folkarchive.de/wreck.html

For the Official Ralph Stanley II and the Clinch Mountain Boys site, visit:

Ralph II ralph2.com


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