The Stanley Brothers on WCYB Bristol, released by Rebel Records in 1988 (REB 855), preserves two complete radio shows from 1947 — the very beginning of the Stanley Brothers' professional career, when they were the house band on WCYB's Farm and Fun Time program in Bristol, Tennessee, only weeks after they had first turned to music full-time. The recordings come from sixteen-inch transcription discs cut at the station, with Carter and Ralph still developing the sound that would become bluegrass — material like Cotton Eyed Joe, Molly and Tenbrooks, Little Glass of Wine, and Blue Moon of Kentucky already in evidence. As primary documents of the earliest professional Stanleys, the recordings are essentially without rival.
Tracklist
- 1 Intro 0:23
- 2 Cotton Eyed Joe alt version 2:32
- 3 Our darling's gone 2:10
- 4 Molly and Tenbrooks alt version 3:07
- 5 Cacklin' hen 1:44
- 6 Little Glass of Wine alt version 2:56
- 7 Blue Moon of Kentucky alt version 2:07
- 8 Lonely tombs 2:19
- 9 Orange Blossom Special alt version 2:56
- 10 Intro 0:23
- 11 Old Joe Clark alt version 2:33
- 12 They’re at Rest Together alt version 3:28
- 13 White House Blues alt version 2:12
- 14 Standing in the Need of Prayer alt version 2:35
- 15 Riding the humpbacked mule 1:53
- 16 The jealous lover 2:55
- 17 Goodbye Old Pal alt version 2:14
- 18 Just one way to the pearly gate 2:19
