Track Listing DISC 1: 1. How Mountain Girls Can Love - (with Hal Ketchum) 2. Shouting on the Hills of Glory - (with Ricky Skaggs) 3. Pretty Polly - (with Patty Loveless) 4. Window up Above, The - (with George Jones) 5. I Just Got Wise - (with Dwight Yoakam) 6. If That's the Way You Feel - (with Patty Loveless/Vince Gill) 7. Nobody's Love Like Mine - (with Ricky Skaggs) 8. Memories of Mother - (with Claire Lynch) 9. Lonesome River, The - (with Bob Dylan) 10. Old Love Letters - (with Laurie Lewis) 11. She's More to Be Pitied - (with Marty Stuart) 12. When I Wake up to Sleep No More - (with The Marshall Family) 13. Another Night - (with Joe Diffie) 14. Gold Watch and Chain - (with Gillian Welch) 15. Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine - (with Ralph Stanley II) 16. I'll Take the Blame - (with Rhonda Vincent) 17. How Can We Thank Him For What He Has Done - (with Diamond Rio) 18. I've Just Seen the Rock of Ages - (with Jeff & Marty Raybon)
DISC 2: 1. Pig in a Pen - (with Doug Phelps) 2. I Only Exist - (with John Anderson) 3. Lonesome Night, A - (with Patty Loveless/Vince Gill) 4. Pretty Little Miss in the Garden - (with Alison Krauss) 5. Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn, The - (with Dwight Yoakam) 6. Stone Walls and Steel Bars - (with Junior Brown) 7. Beautiful Star of Bethlehem - (with Connie Smith) 8. Let Me Love You One More Time - (with Tim O'Brien) 9. White Dove, The - (with Porter Wagoner) 10. Will You Ever Miss Me at All - (with Joe & Sonya Issacs) 11. Lonesome Banjo Man - (with Ralph Stanley II) 12. Are You Afraid to Die - (with Sonya & Becky Issacs) 13. Way Down Deep - (with Vern Gosdin) 14. If I Lose - (with Jim Lauderdale) 15. I'm Going That Way - (with The Whites) 16. Gathering Flowers For the Master's Bouquet - (with BR5-49) 17. My Deceitful Heart - (with Ralph Stanley II) 18. Bright Morning Star - (with Kathy Mattea)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Bob Dylan, Diamond Rio, Dwight Yoakam, George Jones, Joe Diffie, Patty Loveless, Porter Wagoner, Vince Gill | | Producer: | Bil VornDick | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel includes: Ralph Stanley; Shelton Feazell, Jack Cooke, John Rigsby (vocals); Bob Dylan, Marty Stuart (guitar); Ricky Skaggs (mandolin); Laurie Lewis (fiddle); Mike Bub (bass); Hal Ketchum, Patty Loveless, George Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Vince Gill, Claire Lynch, Judy Marshall, David Marshall, Joe Diffie, Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanely II, Rhonda Vincent, Diamond Rio, Jeff Raybon, Marty Raybon, Doug Phelps, John Anderson, Alison Krauss, Junior Brown, Connie Smith, Tim O'Brien, Porter Wagoner, Joe Isaacs, Sonya Isaacs, Becky Isaacs, Vern Gosdin, Jim Lauderdale, The Whites, BR5-49, Kathey Mattea. Principally recorded at Masterlink Studios, Nashville, Tennessee from May-December, 1997. Includes liner notes by Chris Skinker. CLINCH MOUNTAIN COUNTRY was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album. Ralph Stanley and producer Bil VornDick assembled a small galaxy of musical stars to make CLINCH MOUNTAIN COUNTRY one of the biggest all-star bluegrass recording sessions ever. The list of performers reads as a Who's Who that stretches the gamut of American pop music, including George Jones, Bob Dylan, Marty Stuart, Vince Gill, Dwight Yoakam, BR5-49, Gillian Welch and others. This two-disc collection of bluegrass standards is lovingly performed by artists who have clearly been influenced--even defined--by Ralph Stanley's legacy. (Many consider Stanley to be the heart of soul of bluegrass music.) There are plenty of stellar performances on CLINCH MOUNTAIN COUNTRY. Patty Loveless turns in an excellent version of the chilling, traditional murder ballad, "Pretty Polly," while Porter Wagoner offers a splendid rendition of "The White Dove," a Carter Stanley song that Wagoner first sang as a child. But perhaps the most memorable tracks on this excellent document of a bluegrass legend are "Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine" and "My Deceitful Heart," where Stanley and his son, Ralph Stanley II, share vocals.
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