Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection Ralph Stanley

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  • Release Date: 10/07/2008
  • Sales Rank: 21,942
  • Label: REBEL RECORDS
  • UPC: 032511752024

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Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection

1LISTENRocky Island 1:53
2LISTENShout Little Lulie 1:59
3LISTENBattle Ax previously unreleased 3:15
4LISTENPretty Girls, City Lights 2:14
5LISTENCripple Creek previously unreleased 2:36
6LISTENI've Got a Mule to Ride previously unreleased 1:57
7LISTENOld McDonald/Cindy previously unreleased 4:05
8LISTENShady Grove previously unreleased 1:48
9LISTENJohn Henry 1:31
10LISTENLittle Birdie 2:18
11LISTENCuttin' the Cornbread 1:55
12LISTENBound to Ride 1:47
13LISTENMarried Life Blues previously unreleased 2:26
14LISTENBlack-Eyed Susie previously unreleased 1:50
15LISTENKentucky Shine previously unreleased 1:46
16LISTENTrue Blue Bill 1:57
17LISTENDixieland (My Old Home Town) previously unreleased 2:12
18LISTENOld Time Pickin' 1:45

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Ralph Stanley is one of very few bluegrass banjo players who still occasionally takes off the steel fingerpicks and plays in the older, more traditional clawhammer (or "frailing") style. It's a more modal and percussive approach, one that carries with it the rough-hewn charm of old-time string band music rather than the flashier, more commercial appeal of bluegrass. This 18-track set (half the tracks are new to CD) is drawn from Stanley's long run with Rebel Records and includes him playing the banjo in the clawhamer style he learned from his mother when he was 11 years old. The virtuoso speed and considered slickness of contemporary bluegrass are nowhere to be found here, but that doesn't mean this is a radically different Ralph Stanley, it's just Stanley working closer to his string band roots. The approach is still the same, and his singing is still full of mountain gospel as he searches for meaning and redemption in the old songs. Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

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