Like Father Like Son brings Ralph Stanley together with his son Ralph Stanley II — the album that publicly introduced the younger Stanley to bluegrass audiences as a working singer in his own right alongside the father whose name and tradition he was inheriting. Recorded with the Clinch Mountain Boys lineup of the period, the program runs through Stanley Brothers classics and new material delivered in the harmony singing the Stanleys had spent decades refining. Ralph Stanley II would continue to develop as a Clinch Mountain Boys lead singer through the 1990s before launching his own working band; this album sits as the formal beginning of that succession story.
Tracklist
- 1 Way down deep
- 2 Wolfe County
- 3 Two flowers blooming
- 4 Breaks of the Cumberland
- 5 Haunted house
- 6 Little Georgia Rose alt version 2:56
- 7 Long Gone alt version
- 8 Dirty black coal
- 9 My Rose of Old Kentucky alt version
- 10 Wildwood Flower alt version 4:26
- 11 Sweet memory
- 12 Little Jimmy