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Folk Festival

The Stanley Brothers

Album · 1965 · Stanley Tone ST-CD 5003

Folk Festival, released by King in 1965, is one of the label's stereo reissue projects of the Stanley Brothers' 1961 sessions — the same material that had appeared on earlier King mono LPs, remixed for the home-stereo market the label was newly courting. The session backbone is from the brothers' productive January 1961 King dates, with the Clinch Mountain Boys of the moment framing the Stanleys' close harmony. Like much of King's mid-1960s Stanley catalog, the album traded on the back catalog rather than fresh recordings, but the underlying performances — particularly Ralph Stanley's banjo work — held their value against the years.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Old Joe Clark alt version Traditional · key A · 136 bpm 2:34
  2. 2 Orange Blossom Special alt version Ervin T. Rouse · key E · 169 bpm 2:56
  3. 3 I Know What it Means to Be Lonesome alt version James Brockman, James Kendis, Nat Vincent · key B · 148 bpm 2:16
  4. 4 Cripple Creek alt version Traditional · key G · 180 bpm 2:18
  5. 5 Gonna Paint the Town alt version Carter Stanley, Ralph Stanley · key G · 152 bpm 1:49
  6. 6 The window up above 2:53
  7. 7 Sunny Side of the Mountain alt version Harry C. McAuliffe, Bobby Gregory · key A · 124 bpm 2:32
  8. 8 Comedy with Chick Striping 7:05
  9. 9 Chicken reel 3:19
  10. 10 Rank Stranger alt version Albert E. Brumley · key F# · 150 bpm · 3/4 3:08
  11. 11 How far to Little Rock 2:42
  12. 12 Old Joe Clark 0:27
  13. 13 Turkey in the Straw alt version Traditional · key G · 143 bpm 3:09
  14. 14 Black Mountain blues 2:53
  15. 15 Wreck of the Old 97 alt version Henry Whitter · key Bb · 128 bpm 2:30
  16. 16 Jack and May 3:13
  17. 17 Cumberland Gap alt version Traditional · key D · 132 bpm 3:44
  18. 18 Jenny Lynn alt version Traditional · key A · 116 bpm 2:53
  19. 19 The Story of the Lawson Family alt version Walter Smith · key F# · 178 bpm · 3/4 2:32
  20. 20 Comedy with Chick Stripling 2:13
  21. 21 Johnson had an old gray mule 2:03
  22. 22 Chicken reel 3:06
  23. 23 Nine Pound Hammer alt version Traditional · key A · 122 bpm 2:55
  24. 24 I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow alt version Dick Burnett · key A · 90 bpm 2:55
  25. 25 Come all you tenderhearted 4:11
  26. 26 Sally Goodin alt version Traditional · key A · 128 bpm 3:19
  27. 27 Long Journey Home alt version Traditional · key A · 147 bpm 3:04
  28. 28 East Virginia Blues alt version Traditional · key E · 96 bpm 2:35
  29. 29 Big Tilda
  30. 30 Dream of a Miner’s Child alt version Andrew Jenkins · key B · 105 bpm 2:54
  31. 31 Angel Band alt version W.B. Bradbury, Rev. J. Hascall · key C · 124 bpm · 3/4 2:15
  32. 32 Wicked Path of Sin alt version Bill Monroe · key A · 122 bpm 2:38
  33. 33 Little Birdie alt version Traditional · key C · 160 bpm 1:59
  34. 34 How far to Little Rock
  35. 35 Rabbit in the Log alt version Bashful Brother Oswald · key E · 152 bpm 2:40
  36. 36 How Mountain Girls Can Love alt version Carter Stanley · key A · 159 bpm 2:04
  37. 37 Cacklin' hen
  38. 38 When you and I were young, Maggie
  39. 39 Don't go out tonight
  40. 40 Sharecropper’s Son alt version
  41. 41 I'm a man of constant sorrow
  42. 42 Single Girl Married Girl alt version A.P. Carter · key E · 124 bpm 2:46
  43. 43 Shouting on the Hills of Glory alt version Carter Stanley · key B · 133 bpm 2:47
  44. 44 Cumberland Gap

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