Carter Stanley's Eyes is a 2018 album by Peter Rowan, the guitarist and singer who came of age musically as a member of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys in the 1960s before moving through a career that touched rock, country, Latin, and Hawaiian music. The album title invokes Carter Stanley, whose voice defined one entire strand of bluegrass feeling — mournful, deep, and rooted in the mountains. Rowan's tribute is personal: he knew the music that Stanley made and has spent a career in conversation with it. The record reflects Rowan's mature synthesis, drawing on the emotional vocabulary of the Stanley Brothers while placing it in the context of a long life's worth of musical experience.
Tracklist
- 1 Drumbeats on the Watchtower 3:50
- 2 Tiny Broken Heart alt version 2:54
- 3 The True and Trembling Brakeman 3:16
- 4 The Light in Carter Stanley's Eyes 2:26
- 5 Let Me Love You One More Time 2:44
- 6 Hills of Roane County alt version 4:19
- 7 Take My Ashes 3:49
- 8 Too Late to Cry 3:12
- 9 Alabama Bound alt version 2:17
- 10 Can't You Hear Me Calling 3:48
- 11 Will You Miss Me alt version 2:55
- 12 A Crown He Wore 2:44
- 13 Ridin’ That Midnight Train alt version 2:21
- 14 A Vision of Mother alt version 4:08
