The Definitive Collection (1947-1966)

Compilation by The Stanley Brothers

Released 2007

bluegrass bluegrass gospel

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Tracklist

CD 1
1
Little Glass of Wine
2:57
2
The Old Home
2:21
3
The White Dove
3:18
4
The Fields Have Turned Brown
2:35
5
The Lonesome River
2:46
6
Get Down on Your Knees and Pray
3:02
7
I’m Lonesome Without You
2:32
8
This Weary Heart You Stole Away (Wake Up, Sweetheart)
2:41
9
Our Last Goodbye
2:38
10
Say, Won’t You Be Mine
2:49
11
A Voice From on High
2:35
12
I Just Got Wise
2:35
13
Blue Moon of Kentucky
2:15
14
Hard Times
2:47
15
If That’s the Way You Feel
2:33
16
Orange Blossom Special
2:29
17
Nobody’s Love Is Like Mine
2:28
18
Angel Band
2:18
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19
Who Will Call You Sweetheart
2:56
20
The Cry From the Cross
2:51
CD 2
1
Gonna Paint the Town
2:21
2
How Mountain Girls Can Love
2:08
3
Think of What You’ve Done
2:08
4
How Far to Little Rock
2:41
5
Train 45
2:46
6
Ridin’ That Midnight Train
2:05
7
Man of Constant Sorrow
2:38
8
Rank Stranger
3:11
9
Jacob’s Vision
2:17
10
Little Maggie
2:48
11
God Gave You to Me
2:07
12
Let Me Rest
2:02
13
Who Will Sing for Me
2:08
14
Little Birdie
1:59
15
Lonesome Night
2:21
16
Don’t Cheat in Our Home Town
2:36
17
Stone Walls and Steel Bars
2:09
18
Beautiful Star of Bethlehem
3:52
19
O Death
3:00
20
Soldier’s Grave
2:57
CD 3
1
Theme & Cotton-Eyed Joe
1:50
2
Mother No Longer Awaits Me at Home
2:42
3
The Girl Behind the Bar
2:16
4
Molly and Tenbrooks
2:25
5
Are You Waiting Just for Me
2:19
6
Will You Be Loving Another Man
2:47
7
Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms
2:26
8
Black Mountain Blues
2:01
9
Meet Me Tonight
2:35
10
Nobody’s Business
1:58
11
Sugar Coated Love
3:16
12
Tell Me Why My Daddy Don’t Come Home
2:34
13
Hide Ye in the Blood
2:13
14
East Virginia Blues
2:36
15
Pretty Polly
4:03
16
Pig in a Pen
1:48
17
Will You Miss Me
3:13
18
Where the Soul Never Dies
1:35
19
Dust on the Bible
1:16
20
Single Girl
2:58

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Release credits

Art Satherly
producer [2-3, 5]
Art Stamper
fiddle [18]
Bill Lowe
bass [18], vocal [18]
Bill Napier
baritone vocals [7], guitar [7]
Carter Stanley
guitar [2.7, 2.13, 2.15, 2.20, 1.2-3, 1.5, 1.18, 3.2], lead vocals [3.2, 1.2-3, 1.5, 1.18, 2.7, 2.13, 2.15, 2.20]
Chick Stripling
double bass [13]
Curley Lambert
mandolin [18], vocal [18]
Darrell "Pee Wee" Lambert
baritone vocals [3, 5], mandolin [3.2, 1.2-3, 1.5], tenor vocals [2]
Don Law
producer [2-3, 5]
Ernie Newton
double bass [2, 5]
George Shuffler
baritone vocals [20], bass vocals [7, 13], double bass [7, 20], guitar [13, 15, 20], tenor vocals [15]
Henry Dockery
double bass [15]
James "Jay" Hughes
double bass [3]
Les Woodie
fiddle [2, 5]
Leslie Keith
fiddle [2]
Ralph Mayo
baritone vocals [13], fiddle [13, 15]
Ralph Stanley
arranger [18], banjo [1.2-3, 1.5, 1.18, 3.2, 2.7, 2.13, 2.15, 2.20], baritone vocals [15], lead vocals [7], tenor vocals [1.3, 2.7, 2.13, 2.20, 3.2], vocal [5, 18]
Ray Pennington
producer [15]
Robert "Bobby" Sumner
fiddle [3]

Issues

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The Definitive Collection (1947-1966)
3x CD
2007
T
The Very Best Of (1947-1961)
Digital Media