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.


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Curly Ray Cline - Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

(Rebel SLP 1577) 1978


Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

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Recorded on 5th Jan 1978 at Messa Studios in Wise, Va. This is a fairly typical Curly Ray album, with a smattering of vocal tracks and a chunk of fiddle instrumentals. It's also the first LP to feature the Junior Blankenship / Charlie Sizemore line-up of the CMB's.

Who's Gonna Mow My Grass was often the 'featured' vocal track by Curly Ray at Ralph's shows of the time.

Booger Man's Dream, credited to Curly Ray, is the fiddle standard Devil's Dream... as Curly noted in the March 1989 edition of 'Bluegrass Unlimited' ...lot's of people take the old tunes and change the names... now "Devils' Dream", I call that "Booger Man's Dream"... Ralph [Stanley] helped me come up with that one.[1]

Fred Huffman, who did the artwork for this and It's Bread And Water For... LPs, later designed the commemorative Blue Grass Boy belt buckle design that Doug Hutchens made for Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys in 1987.[2]

  • Curly Ray Cline: fiddle, vocals
  • Junior Blankenship: lead guitar
  • Jack Cooke: bass
  • Dan Marshall: mandolin
  • Charlie Sizemore: guitar
  • Ralph Stanley: banjo

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass
02:10
05 Jan 1978
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

Curly Ray Cline / Verdie Cline
  Ld Vcl / Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Mnd Bs  
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Dan Marshall
Jack Cooke  
A-2
Yodelling Waltz
03:15
05 Jan 1978
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

Arthur Smith
  Ld Vcl / Fid Bjo Hr Vcl / Gtr Hr Vcl / Ld Gtr Mnd Bs  
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Dan Marshall
Jack Cooke  
A-3
Durham's Bull
01:40
05 Jan 1978
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

P.D.
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Mnd Bs  
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Dan Marshall
Jack Cooke  
A-4
Booger Man's Dream
02:12
05 Jan 1978
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

Curly Ray Cline
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Mnd Bs  
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Dan Marshall
Jack Cooke  
A-5
Boil The Cabbage Down
02:25
05 Jan 1978
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

P.D.
  Ld Vcl / Fid Bjo Hr Vcl / Gtr Hr Vcl / Ld Gtr Mnd Bs  
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Dan Marshall
Jack Cooke  
A-6
Fifty Year Ago Waltz
02:30
05 Jan 1978
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

P.D.
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Mnd Bs  
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Dan Marshall
Jack Cooke  
B-1
More Pretty Girls Than One
02:15
05 Jan 1978
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

P.D.
  Ld Vcl / Fid Bjo Hr Vcl / Gtr Hr Vcl / Ld Gtr Mnd Bs  
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Dan Marshall
Jack Cooke  
B-2
Flop-Eared Mule
01:55
05 Jan 1978
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

P.D.
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Mnd Bs  
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Dan Marshall
Jack Cooke  
B-3
In The Land Where We'll Never Grow Old
02:48
05 Jan 1978
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

James C. Moore
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Mnd Bs  
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Dan Marshall
Jack Cooke  
B-4
Fiddler's Dream
02:17
05 Jan 1978
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

P.D.
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Mnd Bs  
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Dan Marshall
Jack Cooke  
B-5
I Like The Old Time Ways
02:18
05 Jan 1978
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

P.D.
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Mnd Bs  
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Dan Marshall
Jack Cooke  
B-6
Family Bible
02:28
05 Jan 1978
Who's Gonna Mow My Grass?

P.D.
  Fid Bjo Gtr Ld Gtr Mnd Bs  
  Curly Ray Cline
Ralph Stanley
Charlie Sizemore
Junior Blankenship
Dan Marshall
Jack Cooke  
Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover Side One Side Two L-R: Junior Blankenship, Curly Ray Cline, Charlie Sizemore (Photo: Rose Hall)

[1] p.17 'Notes and Queries' section of Bluegrass Unlimited, March 1989.
[2] Bob Black's book 'Come Hither To Go Yonder' (p. 136)

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

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