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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V/A - Fire On The Strings

16 Instrumentals

(Starday SLP-221) Nov 1962


Fire On The Strings

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This Various Artists bluegrass compilation includes one Stanley Brothers' banjo tune, which is listed as Fire On The Strings, but is actually just the Starday recording of Holiday Pickin' which the Stanleys recorded in 1958. Jim & Jesse's Tennessee Fling Ding is likewise a renaming of Border Ride.

The album was also issued in the UK (London HA-B 8117) 1963.

Holiday Pickin' can be found on the 4xCD set The Early Starday/King Years, 1958-1961.

Thanks to Todd Gracyk for the corrections/update.

  • Carter Stanley: guitar, vocals
  • Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
  • Al Elliott: bass
  • Gene Meadows: lead guitar
  • Joe Meadows: fiddle
  • Bill Napier: mandolin

 

For detailed information on the songs/sessions check Gary B. Reid's The Music Of The Stanley Brothers book pages 88 and 137.

 

Track:
Artist:
Title:
Time:
Date:
A-1
Bill Harrell
Top Hat Ramble
0?:??
19??

Harlow
A-2
Country Gentlemen
Sunrise
0?:??
19??

Duffey
A-3
Bill Clifton
Spanish Flandang
0?:??
19??

Clifton
A-4
Cold Creek
Rubber Doll Rag
0?:??
19??

York
A-5
Flatt & Scruggs
Foggy Mountain Breakdown
0?:??
19??

Scruggs
A-6
The Stoneman Family
The Girl From Galax
0?:??
19??

Donna Stoneman
A-7
Stringbean
Pluckin' The Bird
0?:??
19??

Akeman
A-8
Buzz Busby
Talking Banjo
0?:??
19??

Davis / Busby
B-1
Jim & Jesse
Tennessee Fling Ding
0?:??
19??

York
B-2
Brother Oswald
Oswald's Dobro Chimes
0?:??
19??

Kirby
B-3
Hylo Brown & The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
Five Strings To Go
0?:??
19??

Brown / Goins
B-4
220 South
Black Mountain Rag
0?:??
19??

York
B-5
Allen Shelton
Bending The Strings
0?:??
19??

Shelton / Eanes
B-6
Kentucky Travelers
Kentucky Special
0?:??
19??

York
B-7
New River Boys
I'll Be All Smiles Tonight
0?:??
19??

Clifton
B-8
The Stanley Brothers
Fire On The Strings (aka Holiday Pickin')
02:12
Sum. 1958

R. Stanley
Other artwork / related images:
Rear Cover UK Cover

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

Ralph II ralph2.com


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