The Stanley Brothers - The Essential Masters

Title: The Essential Masters Artist: The Stanley Brothers Release Date: 10/12/2004 Label: Varese Sarabande Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 030206660920 Genre: Country Styles: Gospel, Traditional Bluegrass, Bluegrass, Close Harmony, Truck Driving Country, Bluegrass-Gospel Moods: Exuberant, Organic, Rousing, Amiable/Good-Natured, Bittersweet, Rustic, Earnest, Spiritual, Yearning, Earthy, Intimate, Passionate, Plaintive, Reverent, Summery, Wistful Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. How Mountain Girls Can Love
2. She's More to Be Pitied
3. Think of What You've Done
4. Mother's Footsteps Guide Me On
5. I'm a Man of Constant Sorrow
6. Mountain Dew
7. How Far to Little Rock
8. Let Me Love You One More Time
9. Daybreak in Dixie
10. Lover's Quarrel
11. I'd Worship You
12. Fast Express
13. (Dear Girl) Can You Forgive
14. Little Birdie
15. Stone Walls and Steel Bars
16. Don't Cheat in Our Home Town
17. Oh Death
18. Rollin' on Rubber Wheels

Year Type Label Catalog # 2004 CD Varese Sarabande 066609

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The Stanley Brothers' late-'50s to early-'60s output for the King label is the focus of this 18-track compilation from Varese Sarabande. These original recordings feature brothers Ralph and Carter Stanley, with their backup band the Clinch Mountain Boys, incorporating honky tonk, gospel, and even truck driving country into their brand of traditional bluegrass. Among the 18 tracks are "I'm a Man of Constant Sorrow," "Oh, Death," "How Far to Little Rock," and "Don't Cheat in Our Home Town," which later became a number one hit in 1983 for former Clinch Mountain Boy Ricky Skaggs. The Stanley Brothers' Essential Masters is highly recommended for those who want to get familiar with their post-Columbia and -Mercury material. ~ Al Campbell, All Music Guide

Name Credits Al Elliot Bass, Double Bass, Mandolin, Mandolin Art Stamper Fiddle Bill Dahl Liner Notes, Collection, Compilation Producer Bill Napier Mandolin Bill Pitzonka Art Direction, Design Carter Stanley Guitar Cary E. Mansfield Compilation Producer, Collection Chick Stripling Bass, Double Bass Chubby Anthony Fiddle Curley Lambert Guitar, Mandolin, Double Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, Bass Earl Taylor Harmonica, Mandolin Evren Göknar Mastering George Shuffler Bass, Double Bass, Guitar Henry Dockery Double Bass, Bass Marty Wekser Producer Ralph Mayo Bass, Fiddle, Fiddle Ralph Stanley Banjo Vernon Derrick Double Bass, Guitar, Bass, Fiddle