V/A - Fire On The Strings
16 Instrumentals
(Starday SLP-221) Nov 1962
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This Various Artists bluegrass compilation includes one Stanley Brothers' banjo tune, which is listed as Fire On The Strings, but is actually just the Starday recording of Holiday Pickin' which the Stanleys recorded in 1958. Jim & Jesse's Tennessee Fling Ding is likewise a renaming of Border Ride.
The album was also issued in the UK (London HA-B 8117) 1963.
Holiday Pickin' can be found on the 4xCD set The Early Starday/King Years, 1958-1961.
Thanks to Todd Gracyk for the corrections/update.
For detailed information on the songs/sessions check Gary B. Reid's The Music Of The Stanley Brothers book pages 88 and 137.
- Carter Stanley: guitar, vocals
- Ralph Stanley: banjo, vocals
- Al Elliott: bass
- Gene Meadows: lead guitar
- Joe Meadows: fiddle
- Bill Napier: mandolin
| Track: |
Title: |
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| Side One: |
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| 1 |
Top Hat Ramble - Bill Harrell |
| Harlow |
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| 2 |
Sunrise - Country Gentlemen |
| Duffey |
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| 3 |
Spanish Flandang |
| Clifton |
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| 4 |
Rubber Doll Rag - Cold Creek |
| York |
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| 5 |
Foggy Mountain Breakdown - Flatt & Scruggs |
| Scruggs |
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| 6 |
The Girl From Galax - The Stoneman Family |
| Donna Stoneman |
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| 7 |
Pluckin' The Bird - Stringbean |
| Akeman |
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| 8 |
Talking Banjo - Buzz Busby |
| Davis / Busby |
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| Side Two: |
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| 1 |
Tennessee Fling Ding - Jim & Jesse |
| York |
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| 2 |
Oswald's Dobro Chimes - Brother Oswald |
| Kirby |
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| 3 |
Five Strings To Go - Hylo Brown & The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers |
| Brown / Goins |
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| 4 |
Black Mountain Rag - 220 South |
| York |
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| 5 |
Bending The Strings - Allen Shelton |
| Shelton / Eanes |
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| 6 |
Kentucky Special - Kentucky Travelers |
| York |
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| 7 |
I'll Be All Smiles Tonight - New River Boys |
| Clifton |
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| 8 |
Fire On The Strings (aka Holiday Pickin') - Stanley Brothers |
| R. Stanley |
