The Stanley Brothers: Rank Strangers
13 responses to “The Stanley Brothers: Rank Strangers”
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Yes!!!
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I really need to go to Mountain View, AR. There’s something about sitting and listening to this kind of music for a few days that puts things in the right perspective.
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What’s in Mountain View, AR? More of this kind of music, I guess?
The Stanley Brothers are a group I’ve heard of for years but never really heard. I found this just because I wanted to learn the song. I definitely want to hear more of them. -
Jimmy started a folk festival there that became the Arkansas Folk festival, which was huge. After a while he helped build the Ozark Folk Center which is still there. We used to go all the time when the kids were younger. I hope that it is the same now. There were good music shows at the Folk Center, but when the weather is good, there is music all around the town square on the porches of the buildings. There is a dance in the courtyard on Saturday nights. My kids used to run around the square like we ran around our neighborhood when we were growing up.
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That’s supposed to say Jimmy Driftwood.
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I wondered what “Jimmy” you assumed we would know by that name only. Now if you had said “Willie…”
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Yeah. Plain ole Jimmy was just a rank stranger.
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Great stuff!
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Sound quality on that is really good for something so old. Ralph Stanley’s voice is unmistakable (he’s the one playing banjo). I had the privilege to see him and his Clinch Mountain Boys in concert in the late 90’s.
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Yes, sound is pretty good–wonder where the performance came from–there’s no info with the video. It does, however, seem to be off pitch overall. I kept tuning my guitar to standard pitches and not being able to get with the sound on the video. Not too surprising, I guess, as it was probably a pretty old tape before it got digitized.
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Yes, that could result from something as simple as the tape being slightly off-speed one way or the other.
It looks like it’s probably a late 50s/early 60s original. -
Hey Mac, don’t remember on which thread I brought him up, but I picked up a copy of Byron Reece’s poems and they are very good. I think you’d enjoy them a lot. The collection I got is called Fable in the Blood, and contains selected poems from all four of his books plus a very fine introduction by the editor, Jim Clark.
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Thanks. I thought I’d see if I could find a poem or two online and started typing his name in Google search. I got as far as “byron re” and it offered “byron reese”. Oh, that must be him, although I thought Rob spelled it with a “c”. Wrong.
But here’s a sample from Byron ReeCe.
Light On Dark Water 
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