The Stanley Sound Today, released by Rebel Records in 1981 (Rebel 1601), is a Ralph Stanley secular album recorded February 4, 1981 at Riverside Studios in Ashland, Kentucky with the Charlie Sizemore / Junior Blankenship lineup of the Clinch Mountain Boys. Four of the songs — Your Worries and Troubles Are Mine, Jealousy, How Could I Dream Such a Dream, The Letter I Never Mailed — were contributed by Candie Randolph. Junior Blankenship and Jack Cooke each took unusual lead-vocal spots on Jimmie Brown the Newsboy and Sittin' on Top of the World respectively. The program mixes Stanley Brothers classics and new material; the album has never been reissued on CD, making the vinyl release the only working source for the recordings.
Tracklist
- 1 Love Me Darling Just Tonight alt version 2:13
- 2 Could You Love Me One More Time alt version 2:38
- 3 Flood Of 57 2:59
- 4 The Fields Have Turned Brown alt version 2:48
- 5 A Little Boy Called Joe 3:04
- 6 Loving You Too Well 1:52
- 7 Reuben alt version 2:53
- 8 Poor Rambler 2:50
- 9 Old Richmond Prison 2:16
- 10 No Schoolbus In Heaven 2:40
- 11 John Henry alt version 3:12
- 12 Little Maggie alt version 2:44
- 13 Your Worries & Troubles Are Mine 2:35
- 14 Rank Stranger alt version 3:08
- 15 Lonesome and Blue 2:16
- 16 Poison Love alt version 2:18
- 17 Little Glass of Wine alt version 2:56
- 18 On and On alt version 2:46
- 19 I’m Lonesome Without You alt version 3:21
- 20 Gonna Paint the Town alt version 1:49
- 21 Jimmie Brown the Newsboy alt version
