Ralph Stanley - Evanston, IL 14 Apr 1978

Ralph Stanley - The Old Town School of Folk Music, Evanston, IL (April 14, 1978)

Ralph Stanley - Curly Ray Cline - Jack Cooke - Junior Blankenship - Charlie Sizemore - Dan Marshall

This show is an early one featuring Charlie Sizemore, Junior Blankenship and Dan Marshall. Many of the featured songs had only been recorded for Ralph's "Down Where The River Bends" LP a little over fortnight before (29th March 1978) and hadn't been released yet.

Unfortunately the sound quality on the second set isn't as good, with a little audio 'bleed' from earlier in the recording...

Thanks to Jim Stephenson & also to the late Urban Haglund for the Frontier Ranch 1978 photo. Miss you buddy!

PS: Ralph was playing Stanleytone #4 on this show - wonder where that banjo is now!

Set One:
00:00 Introduction
02:15 The Power Of Love
04:14 Hometown (aka This Old Town)
08:45 Pretty Little Indian
12:28 Will You Miss Me
16:29 Just Because
20:08 Footprints In The Snow
24:16 Down Where The River Bends
27:54 Put My Little Shoes Away
31:55 Who's Gonna Mow My Grass
36:23 Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem (Tape Cut)
40:26 Gloryland
44:08 Children, Go Where I Send Thee
47:23 Rank Stranger
52:35 Henry Brown
55:31 Just Dreamin'
59:23 Orange Blossom Special
01:03:20 Black Mountain Blues

Set Two: (Sound Quality not so good & some bleed in quieter bits)
01:06:28 Choo Choo Coming
01:08:55 I'll Just Go Away
01:13:26 Sally Goodin
01:17:11 Dream Of A Miner's Child
01:20:20 Little Maggie
01:22:39 Katy Daly
01:26:53 Sitting On Top Of The World
01:30:53 Down Where The River Bends
01:34:16 I've Just Seen The Rock Of Ages
01:38:09 Pretty Woman
01:41:45 I Wanna Sing A Song For Carter
01:44:18 The Old Old House
01:47:59 Why Me Ralph? (Tape Cut)
01:51:35 Blue Eyed Verdie
01:55:46 Yodelling Waltz
02:00:10 Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem
02:04:05 Gloryland
02:07:46 Children, Go Where I Send Thee
02:11:10 Amazing Grace
02:15:46 If I Lose / Kitten And The Cat
02:20:22 Nobody's Love Is Like Mine / Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
02:26:10 Orange Blossom Special