This week I’ve mostly been listening to The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers
featuring the 22 songs Bluegrass duo Ralph and Carter Stanley (banjo and guitar
respectively) recorded for the label between 1949 and 1952. Its fantastic old-time
Appalachian mountain music: full of death, sorrow, angels and heaven.
This footage of the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch
Mountain Boys performing “It Takes A Worried Man” (aka “Worried Man Blues”) is from
Pete Seeger’s Rainbow Quest show and was recorded a few months before Carter
passed away. The tall chap in the middle who steps forward with his guitar is
the wonderfully named George Shuffler. Don Miller is on fiddle and the bass
fiddler is James “Chick” Stripling. Take it away boys.
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