Ralph Stanley - The Very Best of Ralph Stanley
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Artist: Ralph StanleyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-11-12
Music Label: Audium Entertainment
Soundtracks:
- Ridin' That Midnight Train
- The Fields Have Turned Brown
- Little Maggie
- Will You Miss Me?
- Hard Times
- I've Just Seen the Rock of Ages
- Little Birdie
- Man of Constant Sorrow
- Dad's Old Rocky Field
- Clinch Mountain Backstep
- Rank Stranger
- Pretty Polly
- Oh, Death
- Katie Daley
- The Lonesome River
- Angel Band
Free Music Notes for The Very Best of Ralph Stanley
Free Music Review: Strongly Sentimental, Classic Mountain Bluegrass
Hit: 5 Stars
Newly refamed thanks to the movie, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Ralph Stanley is a longstanding classic bluegrass/mountain Gospel star. With 200+ albums behind him, his newfound popularity is nothing new at all.
This "Very Best" CD doesn't do him justice. There is too much great music in his vault to draw from. Listeners will begin with this taste of his magnificent talent, and work their way through his vast discography.
"Man of Constant Sorrow" will be the most familiar song, with Stanley drawing long tones. You'll feel his pain through each note.
Fast-paced banjos and fiddles scream through songs like "Clinch Mountain Backstep." There's no room for words in this lightening picked instrumental. A number of other instrumentals grace the CD, like "Hard Times."
"Rank Stranger" walks slowly as a lament, causing me to wonder had Stanley been walking with me.
Many of the songs come from early 1970s, including "Sorrows."
Fans of everyone from Flatt and Scruggs to Lyle Lovett will discover something fun here. The tale-telling, the presence of voice, and the nod toward the fine traditions of music made in the deep Appalachian Mountains all work together in the singer and banjo player Ralph Stanley.
I fully recommend "The Very Best of Ralph Stanely."
Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com
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