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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Clinch Mountain Echo

Bill Wicker with Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys - Sacred Songs From The Past

(No label C-4540) 1990


Bill Wicker with Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys - Sacred Songs From The Past

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This second cassette collaboration with Bill Wicker and Ralph was limited to 500 copies. The recording sessions, which took place at Maggard Sound Studios in Oct. 1990, were paid for by one of Bill's neighbours, and Bill later recalled that the results "weren't all that great".

His comments were a bit too self-critical. Bill's voice blends well with Ralph and indeed he is said to have been offered the lead vocal spot with the band.

Certainly as Ralph's cassette side-projects go, this is one of the best, although they are all now terribly rare and near impossible to find.

Brian Tussey, who plays mandolin on the tape also lived in NE Indiana around that time but is thought to have later returned to his native SE Kentucky.

For more info on Bill Wicker see the It's Never Too Late entry.

Thanks to Steve Wisener for helping with some of the info on this release.

  • Bill Wicker: guitar, vocal
  • Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocal
  • Curly Ray Cline: fiddle
  • Jack Cooke: bass
  • Ralph 'Hank' Smith: lead guitar
  • Brian Tussey: mandolin

 

Track:
Title:
Time:
Date:
Original Release:
A-1
The Master's Bouquet
02:30
Oct 1990
Sacred Songs From The Past

Marvin E. Baumgardner
A-2
A Few More Years
02:24
Oct 1990
Sacred Songs From The Past

Horatius Bonar
A-3
The Village Churchyard
04:59
Oct 1990
Sacred Songs From The Past

P.D.
A-4
Death Is Only A Dream
02:35
Oct 1990
Sacred Songs From The Past

C.W. Ray / A.J. Buchanan
A-5
The Orphan Girl
02:40
Oct 1990
Sacred Songs From The Past

P.D.
B-1
My Main Trial Is Yet To Come
02:26
Oct 1990
Sacred Songs From The Past

J.L. Frank / Pee Wee King
B-2
Stairway To Heaven
02:43
Oct 1990
Sacred Songs From The Past

Bill Grant
B-3
When I Get Home
03:06
Oct 1990
Sacred Songs From The Past

Roscoe S. Reed
B-4
Little Bessie
03:49
Oct 1990
Sacred Songs From The Past

P.D.
B-5
Zion's Hill
02:44
Oct 1990
Sacred Songs From The Past

James A. Crutchfield
Other artwork / related images:
Cassette inlay

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

Ralph II ralph2.com

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