Saturday Night (Freeland FRC-CD 643, 1993) is the secular half of a double-disc project recorded at Music Row Audio in Nashville in 1992. The Clinch Mountain Boys — Ralph Stanley (banjo), Junior Blankenship (guitar), Ernie Thacker (guitar, mandolin), Jack Cooke (bass), and dual fiddlers Curly Ray Cline and Art Stamper — are joined by an extraordinary guest roster: Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, George Jones, Patty Loveless, Vince Gill, Alison Krauss, and Bill Monroe. The project signaled a new phase of Stanley's late-career visibility, assembling country and bluegrass's broadest cross-section of talent around his uncompromising traditional sound, prefiguring by nearly a decade the mainstream recognition he would receive through O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Tracklist
- 1 Mountain folks
- 2 Down Where the River Bends alt version
- 3 Old man's tears
- 4 All I Ever Loved Was You alt version 3:12
- 5 Midnight storm
- 6 All the good times have passed and gone
- 7 I never will marry
- 8 Banks of the Ohio alt version 4:12
- 9 I love no one but you
- 10 Sea of regret
- 11 The water lily
- 12 I'll never grow tired of you
- 13 All the love I had is gone
- 14 Wonderful world outside
- 15 Letter from my darling