Gospel Echoes of the Stanley Brothers cover

Gospel Echoes of the Stanley Brothers

Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys

Album · 1973 · Jessup MB 129

Gospel Echoes of the Stanley Brothers was recorded by Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys at Jessup Recording Studios in Jackson, Michigan, in the autumn of 1971, and was released in 1973 as Jessup MB 129. Its twelve songs are mostly ones the Stanley Brothers had recorded: “Wings of Angels,” “The White Dove,” “Working on a Building,” “A Few More Seasons,” “The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn,” “My Main Trial Is Yet to Come,” “Old Daniel Prayed” and “Let Me Walk, Lord, by Your Side.” Ralph’s brother Carter had died in 1966.

The band on the session was Ralph Stanley on banjo, Roy Lee Centers and Keith Whitley on guitars, Ricky Skaggs on mandolin and fiddle, Curly Ray Cline on fiddle and Jack Cooke on bass. Ralph Stanley had hired Skaggs and Whitley when they were about sixteen or seventeen, after finding them holding the crowd at one of his shows. The same group made another Jessup LP, Sing Michigan Bluegrass (MB 108), in 1971, and both albums were reissued on a 2001 Varese CD, Echoes of the Stanley Brothers.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Let Me Walk by Your Side 3:04
  2. 2 In Heaven We'll Never Grow Old 2:20
  3. 3 Wings of Angels alt version 2:15
  4. 4 The Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn Source Recording Ralph Stanley · key E · 105 bpm · 3/4 2:36
  5. 5 The Darkest Hour is Just Before the Dawn 2:36
  6. 6 Working on a Building alt version 3:36
  7. 7 Master’s Bouquet alt version 2:16
  8. 8 Leaning on Jesus alt version 2:09
  9. 9 The White Dove alt version 3:00
  10. 10 Shouting on the Hills of Glory Source Recording Carter Stanley · key B · 133 bpm 2:47
  11. 11 A Few More Seasons to Come 1:48
  12. 12 Daniel Prayed alt version 2:13
  13. 13 My Main Trial is Yet to Come Source Recording J. L. Frank, Pee Wee King · key E · 117 bpm · 3/4 2:53

Share Playlist