Folk Song Festival documents the Stanley Brothers engaging with the broader Anglo-American folk tradition that had always been intertwined with the mountain music Carter and Ralph Stanley played. This Gusto/Starday release draws on sessions from the Stanley Brothers' productive years on the King and Starday labels. Ralph Stanley's modal banjo style, influenced by the pre-Scruggs clawhammer and two-finger picking of the mountains, and Carter's authoritative baritone gave the duo a sound unmistakably rooted in the deepest strata of Appalachian music, and their folk recordings reveal the full range of that inheritance.
Tracklist
- 1 Still Trying to Get to Little Rock 2:40
- 2 The Drunken Driver 2:47
- 3 String, Eraser, and Blotter 2:16
- 4 Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine 2:53
- 5 There Is a Trap 2:55
- 6 Just Dreamin' 2:18
- 7 Fast Express 2:53
- 8 Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers Off of Me 2:17
- 9 Little Joe 2:27
- 10 I'm Only Human 2:30
- 11 My Handsome Molly 2:12
- 12 Daybreak In Dixie 2:10