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Music CD - Ralph Stanley: A Distant Land to Roam: Songs of the Carter Family
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Music CD: A Distant Land to Roam: Songs of the Carter Family
Artist: Ralph Stanley
List Price: $18.97
Our Price: $4.89
Your Save: $ 14.08 ( 74% )
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Manufacturer: Sony
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Tracks:
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1. God Gave Noah The Rainbow Sign
2. Little Moses
3. Worried Man Blues
4. Longing For Home
5. Motherless Children
6. Storms Are On The Ocean
7. Keep On The Firing Line
8. Engine 143
9. I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
10. Poor Orphan Child
11. On A Hill Lone And Grey
12. Waves On The Sea
13. Distant Land To Roam
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0827969362921
Label: Sony
Manufacturer: Sony
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony
Release Date: 2006-05-30
Studio: Sony
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: A Distant Land To Roam
Comment: Good song selection
Clear vocals
Crisp instrument playing
I like Ralph Stanley
Customer Rating:
Summary: Incomparable
Comment: Ralph Stanley may have the most distinctive and expressive voice in American music. Certainly few - if any - can convey the gravity and depth that his voice can. To listen to Ralph Stanley is to be reminded of what really matters in life. It is a voice without artifice or pretension, and nowhere does it sound more compelling than in this moving gem. I have been unable to stop playing it in the month or so I've owned it, and each time it transports me to a place as simple and enduring as the mountains of southwestern Virginia.
Customer Rating:
Summary: music
Comment: Songs of the Carter Family may be lost except for people like Ralph Stanley. Stanley's voice is fantastic for blue grass folks. My only regret is that Dr Stanley is getting old because he keeps a lot of the old music alive.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Stirring, Memorable but Acoustically Lacking
Comment: I echo all the favorable comments made by other reviewers. Ralph Stanley singing these songs, born of the soil, sounds like what an Old Testament prophet might sound like. I loved in particular "Little Moses."
What left me perplexed was the sound quality. I'm wondering if T. Bone Burnett wanted a mono-like sound reminiscent of the thirties and forties a la the era of the Carter Family. The soundstage is compressed and sounds like all the instruments are massed in the center. There's little imaging, air or separation between guitars, autoharp, banjo, etc. and Ralph, of course, is dead center. In addition, there's a haze or veil over the recording. Again, I'm wondering if this was intended to mimic those bygone days.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It doesn't get better than this
Comment: As a Stanley fan, I was a bit put off by the "Ralph Stanley" album that followed the O Brother craze. Too sparse, too morose, no bluegrass, whatever. But whether you are a longtime Stanleys fan, a Carter Family fan, or an "O Brother" fan, THIS album hits the sweet spot. Like someone else said, spreading Dr Ralph's genius on top of the Carters' genius - how could it go wrong in the hands of these master craftsmen? Each song has Ralph's soul and perfectly captures the old rough hewn Carter spirit too.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Given the direct line of progression between the songs of the Carter Family and the mountain music of the Stanley Brothers, it's surprising that it's taken the venerable Ralph Stanley more than a hundred albums before releasing one devoted solely to the Carters. The wait was worth it, for the rough-hewn soulfulness of Stanley's vocals and the unvarnished production truly conjure a distant land--a musical expanse far removed from the present--of seminal songs suffused with faith and a strong sense of mortality. From train songs ("Engine 143") to seafaring songs ("Waves on the Sea") to prisoner songs (the oft-recorded "Worried Man Blues"), Stanley takes material written by A.P. Carter or popularized by the Carter Family and plumbs the emotional depths. Many of these songs are spirituals, with guest autoharp by Mike Seeger and call-and-response harmonies on the opening "God Gave Noah the Rainbow Sign," while the uptempo "Keep on the Firing Line" suggests a soldier-like commitment to Christ and the harmony-laden hymn "On a Hill Lone and Grey" describes the Crucifixion. The most familiar song here, "Motherless Children," is also the most powerful, with Stanley's a cappella first verse joined by the mournful strains of a funereal fiddle for the rest of the song. With "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes," the album shows how the Carter Family inspired what we've since called country music. --Don McLeese More from Ralph Stanley and the Carter Family
The Complete Columbia Stanley Brothers
The Stanley Brothers | 
The Complete Mercury Recordings
The Stanley Brothers | 
Clinch Mountain Country
Ralph Stanley & Friends | 
Can the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family
The Carter Family | 
The Carter Family: 1927-1934
The Carter Family | 
The Carter Family, Vol. 2: 1935-1941
The Carter Family |
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