The King Years 1961-1965

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Little Bessie
  4:02
• 2
  Mother's Only Sleeping
  2:46
• 3
  Old Country Church
  2:12
• 4
  Campin' in Canaan Land
  2:10
• 5
  Mother Call My Name in Prayer
  2:44
• 6
  Working on a Building
  2:29
• 7
  Somebody Touched Me
  2:16
• 8
  Dying a Sinner's Death
  2:43
• 9
  Village Church Yard
  2:34
• 10
  Few More Years
  2:56
• 11
  Kneel at the Cross
  2:18
• 12
  My Sinful Past
  2:13
• 13
  How Mountain Girls Can Love
  1:54
• 14
  There Is a Trap
  3:06
• 15
  I See Through You
  2:30
• 16
  Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine
  2:52
• 17
  Fast Express
  2:55
• 18
  I'm Only Human
  2:32
• 19
  String, Eraser and Blotter
  2:17
• 20
  Keep Them Cold, Icy Fingers Off Me
  2:20
• 21
  Still Trying to Get to Little Rock
  2:40
• 22
  Where We'll Never Grow Old
  2:37
• 23
  When He Reached Down His Hand for Me
  2:46
• 24
  Paul and Silas
  2:19
• 25
  Who Will Sing for Me
  2:08
• 26
  I'll Fly Away
  2:22
• 27
  Drinking From the Fountain
  2:43
• 28
  Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
  2:54
• 29
  Memories of Mother
  2:50
• CD 2
• 1
  Heaven's Light Is Shining on Me
  2:28
• 2
  Let Me Walk, Lord, by Your Side
  3:26
• 3
  Harbor of Love
  2:43
• 4
  We Shall Rise
  2:32
• 5
  (Dear Girl) Can You Forgive
  3:01
• 6
  It's Alright If That's the Way You Feel
  2:21
• 7
  Drunkard's Dream
  2:05
• 8
  I Just Came From Your Wedding
  2:19
• 9
  Mama Don't Allow
  2:11
• 10
  Chickie's Old Gray Mule
  2:08
• 11
  If We Never Meet Again
  2:59
• 12
  Hand in Hand With Jesus
  3:11
• 13
  My Deceitful Heart
  2:44
• 14
  Christmas Is Near
  2:18
• 15
  I Don't Want Your Rambling Letters
  2:29
• 16
  Just Because
  2:16
• 17
  No Letter Today
  2:44
• 18
  He Went to Sleep and the Hogs Ate Him
  2:41
• 19
  My Brother's Bride
  2:03
• 20
  Six Months Ain't Long
  2:47
• 21
  Old and in the Way
  2:16
• 22
  Hills of Roan County
  4:35
• 23
  Little Birdie
  1:59
• 24
  Pig in a Pen
  2:09
• 25
  Whiskey
  2:32
• 26
  Lips That Lie
  2:46
• 27
  Lips That Lie (alternate version)
  2:47
• 28
  Little Darling Pal of Mine
  2:51
• 29
  Darling Nellie Gray
  2:44
• CD 3
• 1
  Train 45
  2:42
• 2
  Lonesome Traveler
  2:05
• 3
  Shout Little Lulie
  1:51
• 4
  Shamrock
  1:49
• 5
  Stoney Creek
  2:03
• 6
  Stone Walls and Steel Bars
  2:07
• 7
  Standing Room Only (Outside Your Heart)
  2:03
• 8
  Lonesome Night
  2:18
• 9
  Pretty Little Miss in the Garden
  2:15
• 10
  (It Was) Late Last Night
  2:04
• 11
  When You and I Were Young, Maggie/Red Wing
  2:42
• 12
  Big Booger
  2:49
• 13
  Sourwood Mountain
  2:07
• 14
  Ground Hog/Red River Valley
  2:35
• 15
  Rang Tang
  2:36
• 16
  Snow Deer
  2:30
• 17
  Five String Drag
  1:51
• 18
  Never Again
  2:17
• 19
  Don't Cheat in Our Home Town
  2:33
• 20
  Don't Step Over an Old Love
  2:42
• 21
  I Just Stood There
  2:16
• 22
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  2:37
• 23
  Jesus Savior, Pilot Me
  2:43
• 24
  I Just Dropped By
  2:15
• 25
  Oh Death
  2:57
• 26
  Shouting on the Hills of Glory
  2:52
• 27
  Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
  3:49
• CD 4
• 1
  John Three-Sixteen
  1:56
• 2
  Crown He Wore
  2:01
• 3
  How Beautiful Heaven Must Be
  2:33
• 4
  He's Passing This Way
  2:59
• 5
  No Burdens Pass Through
  2:56
• 6
  Building on That Rock
  2:18
• 7
  Bully of the Town
  3:01
• 8
  Back Up and Push
  2:11
• 9
  Careless Love
  2:01
• 10
  How Bad I Do Feel
  2:58
• 11
  Rollin' on Rubber Wheels
  2:54
• 12
  Our Darlin's Gone
  2:28
• 13
  How You've Tortured My Mind
  2:21
• 14
  I'm Bound to Ride
  1:51
• 15
  God's Highway
  1:45
• 16
  End of the Road
  2:15
• 17
  Seek Jesus (He Still May Be Found)
  2:02
• 18
  He'll Save Your Soul Yet
  2:50
• 19
  I Feel Like Going Home
  2:35
• 20
  Take Me Home
  2:27
• 21
  Are You Ready
  2:27
• 22
  Prayer of a Truck Driver's Son
  3:10
• 23
  What a Price
  2:50
• 24
  Vision of the Promised Land
  2:05
• 25
  Pray for the Boys
  2:33
• 26
  Soldier's Grave
  2:57

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Release credits

• Albert Elliott
  mandolin [14-17]
• Art Stamper
  fiddle [7-12]
• Billy Lee Holmes
  harmonica [26-27]
• Carter Stanley
  guitar [2.1-24, 2.26-29, 3.1-27, 4.1-26, 1.1-29], lead vocals [2.1-9, 2.11-22, 2.24-28, 1.1-20, 1.22-29, 4.1-6, 4.10-13, 4.15-26, 3.6-10, 3.18-27], spoken vocals [1.21, 2.21, 2.25]
• Chick Stripling
  double bass [2.1-13, 1.1-13, 1.22-29, 3.22-27, 4.1-6], lead vocals [10]
• Chubby Anthony
  baritone vocals [19], double bass [19-20], fiddle [14-21]
• Curley Lambert
  baritone vocals [2.14, 2.21, 1.3-8, 1.10-12], guitar [25], mandolin [1.1-13, 2.14-24, 2.26-29]
• Earl Taylor
  harmonica [2-4, 10, 12-13], mandolin [4.1, 4.3-9, 4.11, 4.14, 3.22-27]
• George Shuffler
  baritone vocals [4.1-6, 4.10, 4.13, 4.15-26, 3.22-27, 1.20], bass vocals [1.22-29, 2.1-9, 2.11-12, 3.6, 3.10], double bass [3.11-21, 1.14-17, 4.15-26], guitar [4.1-26, 1.14-29, 2.1-13, 3.1-27], tenor vocals [8]
• Henry Dockery
  double bass [1-10]
• Ralph Mayo
  baritone vocals [2.1-9, 2.11-12, 3.6, 3.10, 1.22-29], fiddle [2.1-15, 2.17-25, 2.28-29, 1.22-29, 3.1-10], guitar [16-21, 24-29]
• Ralph Stanley
  banjo [2.1-25, 2.28-29, 1.1-29, 3.1-27, 4.1-26], baritone vocals [8], lead vocals [4.14, 4.20, 3.25, 1.6, 1.27, 2.23], spoken vocals [21], tenor vocals [1.1-20, 1.22-29, 2.1-9, 2.11-15, 2.17-22, 2.24-28, 4.1-6, 4.10-13, 4.15-26, 3.6-7, 3.9-10, 3.18-27]
• Ray Pennington
  producer [2.15-29, 3.1-21, 3.25]
• Vernon "Boatwhistle" McIntyre
  double bass [7-14]
• Vernon Derrick
  bass vocals [3-7, 11-12], double bass [15-29], fiddle [1-13]
• [unknown]
  double bass [14]
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Issues

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  T
  The King Years 1961-1965

  4x CD
  2003
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  T
  The King Years 1961-1965

  4x CD
  2010