Stanley Brothers The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1949-1952 (CD)

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1-CD with 20-page booklet, 24 tracks. Playing time approx. 66 mns. These are cornerstone... more

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Stanley Brothers: The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1949-1952 (CD)

1-CD with 20-page booklet, 24 tracks. Playing time approx. 66 mns.

These are cornerstone recordings by the greatest bluegrass brother act--as essential as our volume of the Stanleys' Mercury sides. Here's the classic haunting Stanley sound, and here are the original versions of songs that went on to become bluegrass classics, like The Fields Have Turned Brown, The White Dove, I Love No One But You, The Drunkard's Hell, Hey! Hey! Hey! A Life Of Sorrow and The Lonesome River.
Not only has the sound been lovingly restored, but there are two alternate takes never heard before. Classic! Essential!

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Interpret: Stanley Brothers
Album titlle: The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1949-1952 (CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127155641
weight in Kg 0.115

Stanley Brothers - The Stanley Brothers & The Clinch Mountain Boys 1949-1952 (CD) CD 1
01	A Vision Of Mother	Stanley Brothers
02	The White Dove	Stanley Brothers
03	Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet	Stanley Brothers
04	The Angels Are Singing	Stanley Brothers
05	It's Never Too Late	Stanley Brothers
06	Have You Someone	Stanley Brothers
07	Little Glass Of Wine	Stanley Brothers
08	Let Me Be Your Friend	Stanley Brothers
09	We'll Be Sweethearts In Heaven	Stanley Brothers
10	I Love No One But You	Stanley Brothers
11	Too Late To Cry	Stanley Brothers
12	The Old Home	Stanley Brothers
13	The Drunkard's Hell	Stanley Brothers
14	The Fields Have Turned Brown	Stanley Brothers
15	Hey! Hey! Hey!	Stanley Brothers
16	The Lonesome River	Stanley Brothers
17	I'm A Man Of Constant Sorrow	Stanley Brothers
18	Pretty Polly	Stanley Brothers
19	A Life Of Sorrow	Stanley Brothers
20	Sweetest Love	Stanley Brothers
21	The Wandering Boy	Stanley Brothers
22	Let's Part The Best of Friends	Stanley Brothers
23	The Fields Have Turned Brown (alternative)	Stanley Brothers
24	Little Glass Of Wine (alternative)	Stanley Brothers

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The Stanley Brothers are among the least likely candidates to try to rock. If Carter and Ralph Stanley appear here, can Pavarotti be far behind? The back story to this track is not clear. It's likely the recording took place sometime between the spring and summer of 1960, when this song by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters began a run on the 'Billboard Best Seller'list that lasted for half a year. The song was hugely popular. It likely would have been known to the Stanley Brothers without any help from King label boss Syd Nathan.

Nathan might have helped since he was fond of sharing copyrights between his artists, moving hits across genre lines. Hank Ballard and the Midnighters were King artists as were the Stanley Brothers and so it could have come to pass that the Stanleys took a shot at this, perhaps as a joke at the tail end of their session. It's hard to rule it out. We do know that the undubbed master of this song features Carter and Ralph Stanley singing with banjo, bass and acoustic guitar. The timing is ragged and it sounds quite demo-ish. The released version, which we have chosen here, features the addition of echoey finger snaps that provide a more commercial product and nudge the performance more decidedly in the direction of rock 'n' roll.

We don't know whose fingers were doing the snapping (one story on the web has James Brown doing it. It might just as easily have been Carter or Ralph, themselves). In any case, this track goes to show that even a 'pure' bluegrass act can be edged in the direction of rock 'n' roll. The distance is often shorter than you think.

Stanley Brothers & Clinch Mountain Boys, 1953-58 & 1959 (2-CD)
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