The Stanley Brothers - Folk Concert

From The Heart Of America

(King KLP-834) Mar 1963

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Recorded on the 28-29th Jan 1963, this album was overdubbed with fake applause in an attempt to make it sound like a live recording... My copies, which are two of the 1976 Gusto stereo reissues and the 1978 mono Japanese reissue, sounds like the sound has also been altered to give the impression of being recorded in a large venue, rather than a studio.

The The King Years, 1961-1965 box set, which has all the tracks in the order they were recorded sans applause, and without any alteration sounds much more like a studio performance.

Two singles were released around the time of the album: Old And In The Way / Six Months Ain't Long (King 5732) in Mar 1963; and He Went To Sleep And The Hogs Ate Him / Lips That Lie (King 5763) in Aug 1963. Two additional singles wereo released in 1967:- Little Birdie / Whiskey (King 6079) in Feb; and I Don't Want Your Rambling Letters / Hills Of Roan County (King 6089) in April.

The album was possibly also issued in Japan (London MJ 170) and reissued (Gusto SK-834) 1976, and again in Japan with lyric sheet (Victor Musical Industries VIP-5046(M)) 1978. Some copies of the 1976 reissue have the sleeve altered to show the album title as 'Just Because'. Both the stereo blue label Gusto LP (98g) and the tan King/Gusto LP (115g) are from the same master, without any bandings showing between songs. The Japanese mono reissue includes banding between tracks.

For detailed information on these songs / sessions, check Gary B. Reid's The Music Of The Stanley Brothers book, pages 165-169 and 201-202.

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