Definitive Collection 1947-1966 (W/Book)

Stanley Brothers - Definitive Collection 1947-1966 (W/Book)

Definitive Collection 1947-1966 (W/Book)
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Artist: Stanley Brothers
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2007-04-03
Music Label: Time Life Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Little Glass of Wine
  2. The Old Home
  3. The White Dove
  4. The Fields Have Turned Brown
  5. The Lonesome River
  6. Get Down on Your Knees and Pray
  7. I'm Lonesome Without You
  8. This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart)
  9. Our Last Goodbye
  10. (Say) Won't You Be Mine
  11. A Voice from on High
  12. I Just Got Wise
  13. Blue Moon of Kentucky
  14. Hard Times
  15. If That's the Way You Feel
  16. Orange Blossom Special
  17. Nobody's Love Is Like Mine
  18. Angel Band
  19. Who Will Call You Sweetheart
  20. The Cry from the Cross
Music CD 2
  1. Gonna Paint the Town
  2. How Mountain Girls Can Love
  3. Think of What You've Done
  4. How Far to Little Rock
  5. Train 45
  6. Ridin' That Midnight Train
  7. Man of Constant Sorrow
  8. Rank Stranger
  9. Jacob's Vision
  10. Little Maggie
  11. God Gave You to Me
  12. Let Me Rest
  13. Who Will Sing for Me
  14. Little Birdie
  15. Lonesome Night
  16. Don't Cheat in Our Home Town
  17. Stone Walls and Steel Bars
  18. Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
  19. O Death
  20. Soldier's Grave
Music CD 3
  1. Theme & Cotton-Eyed Joe
  2. Mother No Longer Awaits Me at Home
  3. The Girl Behind the Bar
  4. Molly and Tenbrooks
  5. Are You Waiting Just for Me
  6. Will You Be Loving Another Man [Live][#]
  7. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms
  8. Black Mountain Blues
  9. Meet Me Tonight
  10. Nobody's Business
  11. Sugar Coated Love [Live][#]
  12. Tell Me Why My Daddy Don't Come Home [Live][#]
  13. Hide Ye in the Blood
  14. East Virginia Blues
  15. Pretty Polly
  16. Pig in a Pen
  17. Will You Miss Me
  18. Where the Soul Never Dies
  19. Dust on the Bible
  20. Single Girl

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Free Music Review: A collection that truly is definitive
Hit: 5 Stars

I have owned two previous Stanley Brothers albums on CD, as well as one on LP. The latter was 16 Greatest Hits, which frankly wasn't a very good collection. The two albums on CD, however, were both extraordinary. Angel Band: The Classic Mercury Recordings is a collection of the Stanley Brothers recordings from the mid-fifties that shows them at the height of their genius. Equally fantastic is the Complete Columbia Recordings. Both of these show the Stanley Brothers at their greatest. As great as Bill Monroe and Flat & Scruggs were, bluegrass at its best is a vocal art, and vocally no one was better than the Stanley Brothers (though I have to point out that if I could travel back in time to see any bluegrass act, I would love to be in the 1940s to see Bill Monroe's line up with not merely Flatt and Scruggs in the band, but superstar fiddle player Vassar Clements, an assemblage of so much talent as to seem surreal). You would have Ralph Stanley singing the mid-range harmony, his brother Carter singing a very high tenor lead, and usually another band member singing even higher. Or occasionally they would do numbers with a lead solo voice, usually Ralph on great songs like "Man of Constant Sorrow" or "O Death" (which he performed in the Coen Brothers film O BROTHER! WHERE ART THOU?).

I can recommend either of those albums strongly. They both show one of the greatest musical acts in American history at their very best. So that is the context for my saying that this box set, The Definitive Collection 1947-1966, is without any question the greatest Stanley Brothers album ever released and absolutely the one essential collection of theirs to own. it has all the greatest hits, a number of rareties, and a number of the quirky songs that were staples of their act (it isn't a great skit, but as a native of Little Rock I always get a kick out of "How Far to Little Rock?"). Frankly, it is hard to imagine this album ever being superseded. If you love the Stanley Brothers -- or even if you don't but want to know more -- this is the hands down the album by them that you most need to own. American music just doesn't get any better than this.
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