Ralph Stanley & Friends - Clinch Mountain Sweethearts
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Artist: Ralph Stanley & FriendsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-09-25
Music Label: Rebel Records
Soundtracks:
- Ridin' That Midnight Train (with Iris DeMent)
- Will You Miss Me (with Pam Tillis)
- Little Willie (with Patty Mitchell)
- Oh, Death (with Gillian Welch)
- Loving You Too Well (with Dolly Parton)
- The Memory Of Your Smile (with Maria Muldaur)
- Are you Tired Of Me, Darling (with Sara Evans)
- Weeping Waltz (with Joan Baez)
- I'll Never Grow Tired Of You (with Kristi Stanley)
- Rank Stranger (with Gail Davies)
- Trust Each Other (with Iris DeMent)
- Angel Band (with Chely Wright)
- You Win Again (with Melba Montgomery)
- I'm Ready To Go (with Jeannie Seely)
- Farther Along (with Lucinda Williams)
- I'll Remember You Love In My Prayers (with Valerie Smith)
Free Music Notes for Clinch Mountain Sweethearts
Free Music Review: In Clinch Mountain Country
Hit: 5 Stars
In a recent DVD review of the now mountain music movie classic, George Clooney's "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?", I mentioned in passing the name of the artist under review here, Ralph Stanley. I also noted that this grand master of mountain music as it derived from The Carter Family strain was eminently worthy of a separate review on his own merits. I make amends here. I think that this settles all debts by all parties.
That said, the following excerpt from that above-mentioned review can be used here to set the tone for a look at Ralph Stanley's work here:
"Sometimes a revival of a musical form, like the "talking blues", that highlighted the urban folk revival of the early 1960's is driven by a social need. In that case it was to provide a format for the "glad tidings" that a new political and social movement was a-bornin'. In the case of the revival several years ago of what is called "mountain music" it was the films "The Song Catcher" and, more importantly, the very popular movie starring George Clooney " O Brother, Where Art Thou?" The CD under review is a compilation of music from that movie, a not unnatural tie-in in the modern entertainment business. The movie deserves a separate review, however, this CD can stand on its own as a very nice cross section of "mountain music", some familiar most not so.
Without straining credulity "mountain music" is the music of the simple folk of Appalachia, those who worked hard in the coal mines, on the hard scrabble farms and in the isolated mills of the region. This was their Saturday night entertainment and with the advent of radio was a unifying cultural experience. The songs "speak" of hard and lonely lives, the beauty of the then pristine countryside, the usual vagaries of love and lost and the mysterious ways of a very personal, if arbitrary, god. Throw in a few upbeat tunes reflecting the love of "corn" liquor, women and the sometimes funny side of coping with life's trials and tribulations and you have the mountain version of the folk experience. Sound familiar? Sure it does, except, it is done with simple guitar, a blazing fiddle and, hopefully, a full-bodied mandolin."
After that introduction it would seem hardly necessary to do more than list the outstanding tracks on this CD. Except one thing. Ralph has gathered around his "good old boy" self a virtual who's who of female country singers, female folk singers, female folk rock singers, female rock folk singers and ..., well you get the drift. Most of the names here have popped up in other reviews, or will do so in the future. Start with my "Internet Sweetheart", Iris Dement on "Ridin' The Midnight Train" and "Trust Each Other". Folk legend Joan Baez on "Weeping Willow". Maria Muldaur, early on from the Jim Kweskin Jug Band and now a "blues mama" extraordinaire in her own right, on "This Memory Of Yours". Melba Montgomery on the classic country song " You Win Again". Lucinda Williams on "Farther Along". And last but not least Gillian Welch on the Stanley national anthem "Oh Death". Did I kid you? This as an All-Star A-list (excepting only Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt). How did the old coot do it? Enjoy.
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