Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. (Say) Won't You Be Mine
2. This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart)
3. I'm Lonesome Without You
4. Our Last Goodbye
5. Poison Lies
6. Dickson Country Breakdown
7. I Long To See The Old Folks
8. A Voice From On High
9. Memories Of Mother
10. Could You Love Me (One More Time)
11. Nobody's Love Is Like Mine
12. I Just Got Wise
13. Harbor Of Love
14. Blue Moon Of Kentucky
15. Calling From Heaven
16. Close By
17. Hard Times
18. Baby Girl
19. Say You'll Take Me Back
20. I Worship You
21. You're Still On My Mind
22. I Hear My Savior Calling
23. Just A Little Talk With Jesus
24. So Blue

Disc 2:

1. You Better Get Right
2. Tragic Love
3. Lonesome And Blue
4. Orange Blossom Special
5. Clinch Mountain Blues
6. Will He Wait A Little Longer
7. Big Tilda
8. Angel Band
9. Who Will Call You Sweetheart
10. The Cry From The Cross
11. I'm Lost, I'll Never Find The Way
12. Let Me Walk, Lord, By Your Side
13. A Lonesome Night
14. Fling Ding
15. I'll Never Grow Tired Of You
16. Loving You Too Well
17. Daybreak In Dixie
18. If That's The Way You Feel
19. A Life Of Sorrow
20. I'd Rather Be Forgotten
21. The Flood
22. No School Bus In Heaven
23. Maple On The Hill
24. Little Maggie

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16367 in Music
• Brand: Mercury
• Released on: 2003-08-26
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .27 pounds

Amazon.com
After waxing their seminal Rich-R-Tone and Columbia recordings from 1947 to 1952, Carter and Ralph Stanley actually broke up their band; Carter even joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys for a short stretch while Ralph recuperated from a car accident. By 1953, they were back recording for Mercury and for the most part continuing to fuse the raw mountain music they grew up on with Monroe's more progressive propulsive style--although the duo does branch out a bit stylistically across these 48 tracks. Still, when it comes to two-part bluegrass harmonies, the Stanleys were without question the pair to beat: The blend of Carter's rich, warm voice with Ralph's crude, coarse moans stands as one of bluegrass's most distinctive sounds. Whether singing about the home folks (both living and deceased), the Lord, or the lover (both faithful and not), the Stanleys imparted a blunt, emotionally honest, soul-baring intensity. Along with the Rich-R-Tone and Columbia sets, this record is an essential collection of not only the Stanley Brothers' work, but of bluegrass in general. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews

The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys: The Complete Mercury Recordings [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
I bought this as a download from Napster and when I bought a new computer the license wouldn't transfer. This is a definite must-have for anyone that has a bluegrass/old-time music collection. It's especially nice because it has so many of the old mountain-music gospel songs, which is sorta uncommon. Buy the disk so that you have a permanent copy. In summation; BUY IT, YOU WON"T BE DISAPPOINTED!!!

Stanley Brothers \ Mercury
Bluegrass music was isolated to a time and area, the same as to what we now call "classic" country or rock. Music birthed from it's time. Anything "born" now, is imitation and not legitimate. The Stanley Brothers Mercury Recordings is real bluegrass. Raw, real, felt bluegrass. If you love it the way that it was, in it's infancy or midlife form, these [re]recordings are for you. Simply to the bone - or to the marrow - of bluegrass music. Bill Monroe called it "Bluegrass." Ralph Stanley is quoted as saying, "I never called it "bluegrass" music, just real good country music." Buying these "Stanley Brothers - Mercury Recordings" is buying a piece of history that you can lead and teach your children or grandchildren with to ensure they don't confuse todays music with the "Real Thing."