Part of a series of back-of-the-napkin thoughts about the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival (GSCBF), held in San Rafael, CA from Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28, 1974. Click the link to see the posts in this series.
Now I see why I only had a draft of this post for a long time. I didn’t ever finish my notes. I guess I’ll update this at some point. Consider these some raw notes for now.
Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival
Marin County Veterans’ Auditorium Building and Grounds
San Rafael, CA
<–John Hartford precedes–>
Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys
Sunday, April 28, 1974 ca. 21:15
Source: “Debbie reel 4/27/74” CD 4 of 4
Provenance: unknown sbd recording (?maybe MSC > C?) > reel
Transfer: AKAI GX 636 playback > Apogee mini ME @ 24/96 > Apogee Mini DAC (monitoring/mastering) > lynx one soundcard > wavelab 5.0 > CD, by Matt Smith.
Lossless encoding: EAC > CDWave > TLH (FLAC level 8).
Tagging: Foobar 2000.
(8 tracks, 16:40)
GSCBF-1974-04-28-2115-Stanley-t01. % Cacklin’ Hen -1:38
GSCBF-1974-04-28-2115-Stanley-t02. Maple on the Hill -4:18 -4:23
GSCBF-1974-04-28-2115-Stanley-t03. talk (1), band intros [2:27]
GSCBF-1974-04-28-2115-Stanley-t04. Hemlocks and Primroses -5:21 -5:24
GSCBF-1974-04-28-2115-Stanley-t05. Stone Walls and Steel Bars 1:50 -2:04 w/ mandolin
GSCBF-1974-04-28-2115-Stanley-t06. Bill Cheetham -2:07 -2:19
GSCBF-1974-04-28-2115-Stanley-t07. Nobody’s Love is Like Mine 2:31 -2:40
GSCBF-1974-04-28-2115-Stanley-t08. unknown_Stanley_19740428// [fragment] [0:05] %
Lineup:
Ricky Lee – guitar, bass vocals;
Cheryl White – bass;
Ralph Stanley – banjo, tenor vocals;
Curly Ray Cline – fiddle;
Roy Lee Centers – vocals.
Notes:
! % = tape discontinuity; # = truncated timing; // = cut song
! Recording is overloaded for the first few minutes
! Roy Lee Centers would pass away a week or so later, on May 5, 1974. The usual bass player, Jack Cooke, was unable to attend.
! not sure who plays mandolin
! GSCBF-1974-04-28-2115-Stanley-t03 (1) last appearance on the festival this weekend
! GSCBF-1974-04-28-2115-Stanley-t08 fragmentary start of song
! It is not known how long this set lasted – the tape here runs out, and no Ralph Stanley material appears on any of the other sources for the Festival that I know of. This set was scheduled at a half-hour, so barring any other information let’s assume that that’s right, and that this is missing about 15 minutes of music.
<–Nitty Gritty Dirt Band follows–>
Jerry Garcia’s Middle Finger
http://jgmf.blogspot.com/search/label/GSCBF
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