Curly Ray Cline - Chicken Reel

The Lonesome Pine Fiddle Sound Of

(Rebel SLP 1498) 1971

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Recorded 14th Jan 1971, five or six days after the band had helped to record the Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs - Tribute To The Stanley Brothers LP.

Only two of the tracks feature vocals: Walkin' In My Sleep and Blue-Eyed Verdie. The latter is a variation on Black Eyed Suzy.

Of the instrumental tunes, the trad Irish Washerwoman sticks out as a nice change of pace and I'll Fly Away has a small banjo break by Ralph, which is unusual for Curly's albums where Ralph mostly plays back-up.

Raggedy Ann presumably derives it's name from the children's fiction character created by Johnny Gruelle.^[1]

The cover for the album was taken at a neighbour of Roy Homer's home/studio.^[2]

• Curly Ray Cline: fiddle, vocals
• Roy Lee Centers: guitar
• Jack Cooke: bass
• Ralph Stanley: banjo, tambourine

NB: LP liner notes don't specify musicians, so personnel is speculative. John Wright's 'Traveling The High Way Home' book also credits Ralph with playing tambourine on some tracks.

Other artwork / related images:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raggedy_Ann
[2] Ralph Stanley/Eddie Dean's "Man Of Constant Sorrow" book (p.347)