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It’s Bread and Water for Curly Ray Cline

Curly Ray Cline

Album · 1977 · SLP 1566

“It’s ‘Bread and Water’ for Curly Ray Cline” (Rebel SLP 1566, 1977) is a fiddle record by the West Virginia fiddler Curly Ray Cline, who had been Ralph Stanley’s full-time fiddler in the Clinch Mountain Boys since 1967. Ten of its twelve tracks are instrumentals, among them “Pikeville Jail,” “Blackberry Blossom,” “Uncle Ward’s Hornpipe,” “Katie Hill,” “Tennessee Wagoner,” “Turkey in the Straw” and “Waltz for Dad.”

Cline plays fiddle with Keith Whitley on guitar, Ralph Stanley on banjo, Renfro Proffitt on lead guitar and Jack Cooke on bass. Cline sings “House of David Blues,” and he and Whitley sing “Brown’s Ferry Blues.” Whitley had begun his career in Stanley’s band in 1970.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Pikeville jail 2:40
  2. 2 Blackberry Blossom alt version 2:39
  3. 3 Turkey in the Straw alt version 3:09
  4. 4 Uncle Ward's hornpipe 2:46
  5. 5 House of David blues 1:40
  6. 6 Just a Closer Walk With Thee alt version 2:49
  7. 7 Brown’s Ferry Blues alt version 2:45
  8. 8 Katie Hill 1:50
  9. 9 Twinkle, twinkle little star 2:10
  10. 10 Waltz for Dad 3:02
  11. 11 Tennessee Wagoner alt version 1:35
  12. 12 When the saints go marching in 1:50

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