Stanley Brothers, The Rank Stranger

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@EyeShotFirst 3 жыл бұрын

This song hits harder when you start getting older. The last few times I've gone to my old home, is to bury someone. That home starts to look a lot more strange and desolate the more of your friends and family leave this world.

@stevenwebb7936 2 жыл бұрын

I couldn’t agree more!

@tapertom1351 2 жыл бұрын

Yes it does hit closer to home the older we get. ive lost 2 parents and 2 good friends in 8 months time.. hopfully they;ll be waiting for me on the white crystal shore!!!

@jaywalker712 2 жыл бұрын

@@tapertom1351 The older we get often we know more dead folks than alive, this song really hits home with me.

@johnharrison3930 Жыл бұрын

Thomas Wolfe was right - you can't go home again.........

@crawwwfishh3284 Жыл бұрын

Rejoice oh young man in thy youth.

@grapenanners282 2 жыл бұрын

I remember my daddy listening to this song, and he would cry, I never understood as a child. Now daddy has gone up ahead, I understand...

@jaywalker712 2 жыл бұрын

His tears probably came from missing family and friends, some of us drifted way too long and came home to nothing and this song brings out a lot of sadness.

@grapenanners282 2 жыл бұрын

Something like that

@MrLannyh432 2 ай бұрын

I'm 72 years old now...this was my grandma's favorite song....I know exactly how it is..its sad

@perrynay1533 Ай бұрын

Absolutely

@rotgut14 5 күн бұрын

It makes me cry too. Glad I'm not alone

@jasonarnold314 3 жыл бұрын

If this song don't grab you, you ain't got a handle.

@janiejolly2818 Жыл бұрын

My dad served 2 tours in Vietnam. He told me that this song is how he felt when he returned home. So much had changed and would never be the same again😢

@FATTYandco 6 ай бұрын

most vets had a hard time coming over the trauma from their tours and battles, those scars are there forever. but i always felt bad for the homeless and disabled vets. and the song makes a good point. mostly i searched it up, its about a civil war vet feeling like a stranger its mostly the moral. but i think the song can hit hard emotionally

@louisbiederman620 6 ай бұрын

This isn’t home. We’re just visiting. God rest your father’s soul. He’s home now.

@FATTYandco 6 ай бұрын

amen@@louisbiederman620

@georgezink8256 3 ай бұрын

When I got out of army hospital and made my way home ? I felt cheated! I served my country with honor just to still being called murderer !take me home lord I’m hurting so badly

@virgilcol 2 ай бұрын

Some say the song is about a civil war soldier returning home. But I think it applies to so many situations and that’s what makes it a beautiful song

@sharonturner6480 Жыл бұрын

Parents were married for 65 years 10 children. We grew up listening to this song. Daddy and Mama both are in heaven now. TY Stanley Brothers

@lionofjudahlambofgod9132 Жыл бұрын

Have you been born again?

@sharonturner6480 Жыл бұрын

Yes been serving the lord since I was 14 My entire family is Christians. Thank Christ Jesus for Salvation thur repentance. I study the KJV , I like it the best. Have a nice day.

@debbiemcwilliams2789 10 ай бұрын

I want to put "They were all like rank Strangers to me" on my mother's grave marker, she's buried by my father and share a grave stone. My father was very beloved in the community we lived in (Gordonsville VA where Charlie Waller lived and is buried in the same cemetery).. my father was an old farmer and a scholar.. he was well sought out for his knowledge of animal husbandry and farming expertise.. people came from all around yearly to pay their respects to him. The visitors were always greeted with the best cooking and hospitality by my dear sweet mother. My father unfortunately took his own life after many years of declining health.. the funeral home could not accommodate the people who turned out for his funeral.. the streets of Gordonsville were lined that day with people my mother had made welcome in her home for years.. my father died November 3rd 1994... December 24 1995 my mother who was still grieving her loss busily made her home ready for an onslaught of visitors who normally came every Christmas Eve.. no one bothered to come see her without him being there.. little did they know or understand all that she did to make him the man that he was.. he definitely was a lucky man. My mother lived 7 years beyond my dad's death and every Christmas she prepared her home for the Christmas Eve visitors who never came again.. Rank Strangers indeed.

@MsCherokee70 7 ай бұрын

@@sharonturner6480my grandmother was Eva Stanley & she married Worley Rose. They had 9 survived children. Are we related?

@longjohnsilver7986 6 ай бұрын

God bless you all

@user-qk5kn1qj5u 3 ай бұрын

Back in the late 60’s early 70’s my dad would play a 1930 era acoustic guitar and we would sing this in the little Free Will Baptist church on Sunday night.Dad’s been gone 34 years.Hard to believe sometimes.

@sailingikaika8704 5 жыл бұрын

RIP Cumberland Gap. Goodbye Nanny and Papaw, our tobacco farm, churning butter, canning the bounty of the garden, hunting deer, picking and singing on the porch and detesting “ brought on bread “ A moon pie and a Mountain Dew was a fancy city treat. I will see you when I cross the river Jordan. Farther along we’ll know more about it.

@steveboyd3551 Жыл бұрын

Me too

@buckhitchcock3226 4 ай бұрын

Let's not forget the great apple butter makin in the fall and the self canning of the harvest.

@donaldpulliam9153 Ай бұрын

Or splitting wood in the fall so you could stoke the woodstove in the basement and feel that good old wood heat, or the simple joy you would get from a freshly sliced watermelon and a shaker of salt, searching for 4 leaf clovers, climbing trees or catching lightning bugs or even June bugs which you might have tied to a string and fly 'em around, playing cards, etc, etc., there are just so many things that we just don't do anymore and these things are what make up the majority of the most memorable/enjoyable moments in all of my memories/life

@lewislane9727 Ай бұрын

May God bless your memories And keep them with you forever ❤️

@dillionwilliams8061 7 жыл бұрын

People who give it a thumbs down clearly is a rank stranger to music.

@looleescrogg3170 5 жыл бұрын

I agree 100 percent...

@davidlowney634 4 жыл бұрын

@@looleescrogg3170 who cares?

@domeniccarson8511 4 жыл бұрын

@@davesheil7454 Wow! You told him! Good job, mate. Any music with any mention of Christianity should be outlawed. 5 CENT FREDOS!!! You fucking Euro tart.

@skatetodeath666 4 жыл бұрын

@@davesheil7454 lol

@Solexcruiser 3 жыл бұрын

People is plural. They are.

@ywc024 2 ай бұрын

This song hits hard. I come from central Kenya Which is mountainous. Every time I go back so much has changes. My childhood friends already moved out to cities and the old people are no more.

@jpalberthoward9 2 жыл бұрын

George Shuffler is grossly under rated. The man was a master of playing exactly what the song needs, and not overplaying or showboating. He's one of those guys who can step up, nail it in 8 bars and not take away from the focus of the song. It's a fine art, and Mr. Shuffler deserves a lot more consideration than he gets.

@williamjarvis3473 2 жыл бұрын

Agree, 100% Folk would go to a concert just to get a glimpse of George doing his cross pick.

@mathewfines8727 Жыл бұрын

He was the perfect accompanist to The Great Stanleys, in the later period of their recording and performing career, before Carter left this World.

@ronniechilds2002 Жыл бұрын

True. And of course that applies to his singing as well as his guitar playing.

@leerider1912 Жыл бұрын

I met George at Wintergrass in the '90's, real nice guy. Was playing with Jim and Jessie at the time I believe...

@williehazel4625 10 ай бұрын

When i was a little girl i heard my daddy sing this pretty song❤

@trap_or_treat2862 3 жыл бұрын

That skipping fiddle bow after Carter says "They've all moved away" gives me chills every time.

@mic8435 Жыл бұрын

Yessir

@tapertom1351 5 жыл бұрын

How can there be any thumbs down??? Thank the good Lord for the Stanley Brothers!!!Beautiful!!!!

@ghilesmakhlouf 2 ай бұрын

There is only one God, He has multiple names we cannot see him, but He can see us. He has no children or wife ; He is the creator of everything, including humans. He cannot have sons, and He is not a man. He has multiple names, but we all call Him Allah. May He guide you on the path of belief, paradise, and Islam

@TheGisele777 11 ай бұрын

I feel the same way. Once loves ones and friends have passed, it doesn't feel like home. But I'll always be a coal miner's daughter from Eastern Kentucky and very proud of it.

@hectorbonilla8072 3 ай бұрын

My dad and mom are in heaven but I I remember them still 😢

@carlhaynes5317 2 жыл бұрын

Carter and Ralph Stanley are the true Godfathers of Bluegrass music. Buddy it can't get any better this that. RIP BOYS UP IN THEM HILLS OF HOME

@missbritt288 5 жыл бұрын

I used to come home from middle school and listen to bluegrass music , it was like a refuge at the time, these songs and melodies were so comforting - I had such a rough time in middle school , then i learned how to play guitar - and one of the first songs i ever learned was "man of constant sorrow" I could find validation and comfort in the words of those music more than i could the people around me - it helped to give me a better piece of mind - i also started praying more and looking into the word of god . It helped me relax .

@AdamFrady-qe7yt 2 ай бұрын

God watch over please hard times are here help me do what I need to do and not I want to in your name I pray waf

@toonsign 7 жыл бұрын

Retired from USMC (1978) and went back home to MA. These words describe what my heart felt. Knew no one.. Friends moved or died (Vietnam). Felt so alone and lost. No matter who sings the song, the feelings remain the same.

@frankjennings4022 4 жыл бұрын

My younger bro is 100% DAV. 26 surgeries. Army medic Vietnam era. Other brother DAV same time, father died in VA

@derekgoins6547 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service. You have a home in heaven and a friend in the Lord.

@revpgesqredux 3 жыл бұрын

Your post has blessed me. From the first time I ever heard the song it made me think of soldiers coming home with PTSD... the story of one of my world War II friends who came back to his rural home in Ohio in the middle of the night... And laid down on his feather tic. he said when he woke up people just acted like he never left and he never had the heart to tell them what he'd been through in the War. another one of the veterans that I was blessed to listen to had three daughters and a wife... He was in Europe for almost a year-and-a-half after the war building barracks for the Germans that killed his only brother. He said " since the war, my life has been filled with beautiful girls. They want me to talk to them about the war. But how can I live with myself if I visit that Hell upon them?" I gave my second son the middle name "Leighton" because that was his battle-dead brother's name. He cried when I told him and brought my baby boy to him. God bless you Vietnam Vets. And Korea and all the wars since including the invisible ones still ongoing. Thanks and Love 😍.... pg 🙏✝️❣️🤗

@israelfitts5066 3 жыл бұрын

Bless you

@minnowpd 3 жыл бұрын

my dad had that feeling after 4 years 41-45 Came hyome . knew no one.

@user-mp9hr7sx8k 11 ай бұрын

My sweet Daddy used to play and sing this all the time, I hear it now and I just cry!! (We had it played at his funeral)

@petercady698 4 жыл бұрын

"Perhaps the most dramatic moment in all the Stanley Brothers' hundreds of recordings occurs in the chorus of "Rank Strangers." After Carter sings the verse, Ralph enters with the words 'Everybody I met/ Seemed to be a rank stranger' in a voice that stabs like an icepick. He raised the tension in the Stanley Brothers' music to the nearly unbearable: singing above Carter's melody, he would hang on a dissonant note in anticipation of the chord that was about to arrive. Over time, these harmonies became wilder, more edgy and attention-getting - a separate drama that didn't cozy up to the melody but defied it before an ultimate reconciliation." - David Gates, The New Yorker, Aug. 20-27, 2001

@jeaniestanley1250 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, David Gates/Peter Cady.

@sartainja 2 жыл бұрын

I understand why David writes for The New Yorker and I try to come up with something clever for KZfaq.

@michaelbarnett2527 2 жыл бұрын

David Gates: If I cant dazzle them with brilliance, I’ll baffle them with BS…

@jrcrawford4 2 жыл бұрын

Um.... yeah. Kinda sorta.

@jerryvan6709 2 жыл бұрын

... and I love every single second of it.

@lukershoots 3 ай бұрын

This song is about my life. Can't believe it took my until 41 yrs old to understand this song.

@winstonrocco1981 2 жыл бұрын

This music was before my time but I can listen to it all day it never gets old. These brothers were so talented just beautiful music and harmony.

@baseballfanatixx1 7 жыл бұрын

this song sends chills up my spine. one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs I have ever heard.

@crazychannel1478 5 жыл бұрын

My too brother

@howardlovecraft750 4 жыл бұрын

It's a good one.

@michaelradcliff3106 4 жыл бұрын

Try "Angel band". Oooh, it will get ya!

@johnrunion7258 4 жыл бұрын

I'm goin' back to those beautiful Eastern Tennessee mountains where I was born to be reunited with those I've lost.A quiet little place along Roseberry Creek,near the little town of Mascot.This beautiful bluegrass music used to play all day from a wood radio sitting atop an ammonia fridge.

@jackpuskar6439 4 жыл бұрын

High lonesome!

@jaywalker712 3 жыл бұрын

This song touches a spot in me, I left my home an what little family and friends I had at a very young age, first the Army, then roaming the world, just could not find peace . After 30 plus years I came "home' and everybody had died or moved away so I understand being a Rank Stranger and never connected again.

@cynthiaparris7549 2 жыл бұрын

Bless you

@j_lode 2 жыл бұрын

I'm your friend brother

@barrypowell829 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I had the same experience. Left home early @16 joined the Army. Seen the world 🌎 returned back to my childhood home. No one recognize me, or they all moved away.

@jaywalker712 2 жыл бұрын

@@barrypowell829 I know what you mean, after Vietnam I was restless so some guys I served with talked me into going to South Africa where we worked training kids to fight. I worked on a freighter all over the world , time just flew by. Being the baby of family time I returned everybody was gone.

@garylake1497 2 жыл бұрын

Don’t know where in the world you are Jay Walker but you ain’t alone brother, Stay strong, it can be a hard lonesome road and we don’t get an answer to the question ‘why ?’. Gary from England.

@ferdtergesin9927 5 жыл бұрын

This performance is a work of art.

@dancochrane617 11 ай бұрын

It’s songs like this that makes me love bluegrass music and makes the world a better place for everyone

@johnyoung9874 3 ай бұрын

Nobody Answered Me. Is another great song by The Stankey Brothers. It's on KZfaq.

@coyotecreekblues6935 3 жыл бұрын

The harmonies, the call and response, Rank Stranger is bluegrass at it's very best. I never grow tired of hearing this song, and the Stanley Brothers had the best version of the song.

@johndoylemc Жыл бұрын

This song hits me hard. I have lost 299 family and friends since 1990. All of the previous generation are gone and almost all of my generation. My home community is almost empty - only 8 people where almost 300 lived. Miss them.

@bv6852 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful ol time music...much meaning behind it...I'm so lonesome in this world...

@mariacompton1416 5 ай бұрын

My absolute favorite by the Stanley’s…Carter had such a beautiful voice , something really special about him. The world was made much better by the Stanley’s.

@AranMcGinnis 3 жыл бұрын

American folk. Never forget who we are or what we once were. God and family.

@zteaxon7787 5 ай бұрын

Family. The so called religion is rank.

@littlewalter44 4 жыл бұрын

Carter Stanley was the master. Gone too soon.

@freedom4all61701 9 жыл бұрын

My Dad just passed away and he was a country singer. Our last Father's Day weekend before he passed away I videoed him singing this as his all time favorite song he sang at Cowboy Church in Farmer City, Illinois. R.I.P DAD. NO MORE RANK STRANGERS AGAIN. Normand D. Barnes Sr.

@adamszayden8330 3 жыл бұрын

Hello freedom

@rickycarter7154 Жыл бұрын

Of all the great and famous lead singers that performed with Doctor Ralph over those many years, NOBODY was as good as Brother Carter. He was such a natural. I feel honored to hear his voice one more time today. Thank you

@gustaveisler2849 Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful voice..

@artrolf4223 Жыл бұрын

I met Ralph Stanley at a concert in St. Paul, Minnesota. What a Good Ole Boy! I'll never forget that evenin'. (brush with greatness.)

@user-zl6uz6lc8c Ай бұрын

After Carter died, the greatest lead singer in Ralph's band was Roy Lee Centers.

@Joshholbrook2024 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my! I have no words to try and explain to people that don’t listen to bluegrass how out of this world crazy good this is!

@douglassmith826 2 жыл бұрын

This song brings back so many memories The Stanley Brothers are the best

@tima1929 6 жыл бұрын

I wandered again to my home in the mountains Where in youth's early dawn I was happy and free I looked for my friends but I never could find them I found they were all rank strangers to me Everybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger No mother or dad not a friend could I see They knew not my name and I knew not their faces I found they were all rank strangers to me Now they've all moved away said the voice of a stranger To a beautiful home by a bright crystal sea And some day I'll meet them all up in Heaven Where no one will be a rank stranger to me

@CapnPetros 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for adding the lyrics. I heard the next to last line as "Some beautiful day I'll meet them in heaven."

@gustaveisler2849 Жыл бұрын

Song poetry of heavenly beauty

@alanoneill3065 7 ай бұрын

A wonderful song and performance...evocative of a time gone by...a sad time

@budahbaba7856 7 жыл бұрын

OMFW these guys were so good! People in our age do not understand how hard it is to get that kind of harmony.

@countrypaul 5 жыл бұрын

I do understand, Bub. Part of the magic is how effortless they make it seem.

@ronniefennell2335 2 жыл бұрын

Listen to bill monroe s version

@5291982 2 жыл бұрын

WHUTS HARD

@5291982 2 жыл бұрын

@@ronniefennell2335 you're not the boss of us.

@billmacaulay 2 жыл бұрын

@@ronniefennell2335 we,re happy enough with what we're listening to.

@walterpierce6061 Жыл бұрын

One of the best Bluegrass gospel numbers ever. Wonderful!

@bertblackburn5946 Жыл бұрын

I'm 26 an I was raised on this music and still listen to it

@TheCissero 5 жыл бұрын

Perfect harmony. Beautiful. High Lonesome Sound Bluegrass is my favorite.

@boanerges149 3 жыл бұрын

perfect harmony ?

@Jager-gq1bv 3 жыл бұрын

@@boanerges149 you dance with tina.

@billyandloriweaver3448 3 жыл бұрын

Play this song at my daddy's funeral,Carter an bill stanley live n my home town,we talk daily,ralph is their uncle Carter is their daddy

@ALMoore-nt9zu 7 жыл бұрын

The High Lonesome sound is by far my favorite Bluegrass style.

@marthahenderson4808 3 жыл бұрын

This was one of my Daddy s favorite songs, God, how I miss him

@richardpersoage8504 7 жыл бұрын

Thank Goodness, these treasured masters are captured on film

@accousticdecay 5 жыл бұрын

Haunting song that makes me sad, but I cannot stop listening. It is part of my life.

@richardlusk1715 2 жыл бұрын

This song haunts my soul,after all the other folks that play this I always end up back here

@kevinevans4273 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could listen with my mother one more time

@chitahigh-performanceopera8246 Жыл бұрын

Maybe best music video ever, for many reasons. 4 talented angels. Flawless performance. Maybelle.

@truthseeker7233 Жыл бұрын

There is something so powerful and so peaceful about this song that sets comfort to the soul it is in the powerful force of music 🎼✨️💛🙏🏼

@bertblackburn5946 Жыл бұрын

I'm 26 an I was raised on this music and still listen to it

@marcatkinson5187 9 жыл бұрын

holy Christ , what talent. This IS REAL American music. No effects, filters or help...just your voice and the guitars and banjo.

@brendond.3158 3 жыл бұрын

I was looking at the music chart breakers and all of them seemed to go to the Globalist In Great Britian and nothing to the U.S. Talented Bands! Nothing.

@scottholland6652 8 ай бұрын

This is one of the best country songs of all time ....there talent blows me away

@lostnfound639 2 жыл бұрын

Just like Josie Wales, we were blessed with a perspective of the people. Not the the government, not the propaganda, but a core sample of how life goes on after death goes down.

@carolpicard3716 8 ай бұрын

Love the Stanley brothers!

@richardsmith3129 Жыл бұрын

I love this song so much I have to hear it just about every day. The Stanley Brothers were the best. 🪕

@hoke0818 Жыл бұрын

Yes sir, AMEN

@billward2134 5 жыл бұрын

Man if I could only give this on billion thumbs up!

@karenray7925 5 жыл бұрын

The heart and spirit that were in the blue grass songs and music can never be replaced. I believe it touched the soul .

@deanrossiter7473 4 жыл бұрын

This was one of my dads favorite song s i played this song at my dad's funeral great song this song is a tear jerker for sure.

@kayeninetwo3585 9 жыл бұрын

Unbelievable. They were at their best in this period. Powerful Appalachian song.

@jeremyscorpio4170 Жыл бұрын

8 years later I had to bring you back 😉

@kayeninetwo3585 Жыл бұрын

@@jeremyscorpio4170 Thanks . I can't believe it was that long ago that I first saw this video. I come back and watch it all the time.

@jeremyscorpio4170 Жыл бұрын

@@kayeninetwo3585 your welcome 😊

@jeremyscorpio4170 Жыл бұрын

Time flies but bluegrass will never die ❤

@marcatkinson5187 2 жыл бұрын

This is glorious American music.

@jbrown1384 Жыл бұрын

I have heard this song thousands of times, and never tire of it

@3Bullets4Alice 2 жыл бұрын

There are few that equal the Stanley Brothers. This song is a classic example of the beauty of their talent.

@shirleysheppard3483 3 ай бұрын

So true, and yet the judges of the country Music Hall of Fame continue to overlook them. Shame on them!

@lewiefrazier1041 2 жыл бұрын

One of the best songs ever written.....

@resipsaloquitur13 10 жыл бұрын

I'm about to lose my granddad, pls pray for my family. The Long family.

@bennoah1673 5 жыл бұрын

Peace and blessings to you

@looleescrogg3170 5 жыл бұрын

Good bless you n your family .showing sum love from Buffalo, NY !!!

@mostfab7570 5 жыл бұрын

God Bless yall all !!

@cedricdeering1729 4 жыл бұрын

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@cedricdeering1729 4 жыл бұрын

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@jandeband 8 жыл бұрын

THE GOLD STANDARD OF BLUEGRASS GOSPEL MUSIC

@juliestinson8942 2 жыл бұрын

I have loved this song since I was a child. Thank you for playing it again.

@willleith8456 8 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Ralph, my mom went to school with Ralph and Carter,though they have gone on, we have memories and music that will carry on....

@renpokecord9199 5 жыл бұрын

And I'm his 3rd cousin

@chrislambert2777 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Will, my father and all of his siblings went to school with Ralph and Carter (and apparently your mom too).

@aaronwalker1349 4 жыл бұрын

This song says you can’t go home again

@daymonevans7247 3 жыл бұрын

My wife rode with Ralph on their final trip. Was holding her when she passed, with the voice of Ralph's ODeath playing in my head. Learned an hour later than Ralph left at the same time, 6-23-2016, he 79 and her 59. It was the greatest feeling of peace I could have had. Jane Hilaire played the Alto Flute, the "high lonesome" of the flute family.. The only titled alto-flute chair caries her name, and am sure they play together.

@roystanly5882 9 жыл бұрын

i heard this and other songs growing up - i miss a church that sings the old timey way.....

@carolratajczak3964 7 жыл бұрын

imfromtennessee

@danwatts7825 6 жыл бұрын

Check out the Indian Bottom Association on here. Might sound familiar. It reminded me of going to Church with my mamaw.

@jasonlindsey2820 6 жыл бұрын

Roy Stanly they still sing like this here in sum parts of these east tn hills..

@1979peterbilt 6 жыл бұрын

Hardshell House of Prayer in South East TN has singing like this every Sunday morning

@leithamcminn4748 6 жыл бұрын

I don't go to church anymore, 'cause they don't sing good ole gospel. Guess I'll have to wait for my funeral with a mix of this, that, and rock 'n roll.

@philipdhelmet9104 6 жыл бұрын

I moved far away from my homeland in search of prosperity. It is always best at home, where the heart is. And everytime I hear this song, I break down in tears becouse "one beautiful day ill meet them in heaven, where no one will be a stranger to me".

@westpointsnell1935 8 жыл бұрын

ahhh original pioneers of the great American music...man I miss these guys

@willnchicago696 9 жыл бұрын

Now thats how ya sang it! Carter could grab a note and just wring every ounce of emotion from it. There aren't many that can do that.

@bradsparks6008 3 жыл бұрын

I do not care what music you are into.... this high lonesome bluegrass oldtime music is one of the best. Especially Ralph's tenor

@ruthdixon7807 Жыл бұрын

the perfect mingling of Carter's emotional lead and Ralph's ethereal tenor.

@jessehaines7720 2 жыл бұрын

This song makes me cry don't know why

@ronniechilds2002 Жыл бұрын

Then in that case, you better not listen to 'Sweet Flowers Will Bloom' by Ralph. I sob every time I hear it.

@marcyfan-tz4wj Жыл бұрын

i know exactly why i weep when i hear this. it describes hell on earth.

@elwitchdoctor 11 ай бұрын

That’s how you know it’s real shit 💯

@johnyoung9874 3 ай бұрын

No Body Answered Me by the Stanley Brothers is a tear jerker also ! It on KZfaq .

@joleenperez4996 2 жыл бұрын

Such authentic music! Being from the Ouachita Mountains on the Arkansas-Oklahoma line, this music sounds like home. This is what church music and “ singin’s” sounded like when I was a little girl ( and I’m only 43)…it’s a sound and an art that has, sadly, lost popularity Brumley worked hard, and (even today)serves as a great example of what one can achieve-regardless of the small, rural area they may come from. I only wish more of the original Hartford Music Company had been preserved.

@jadefire2817 Жыл бұрын

I relate to this so much! Arkansas gal here (Murfreesboro), and this really *was* what church sounded like when I was little. I know people poked fun at us, because we seemed like we were 30 years behind the times, but I *SO* loved singing harmony in choir and with groups. All those old-time tunes like "I Saw the Light", "Everybody Will Be Happy" , and "Just a Little Talk with Jesus" and so many more. What a precious heritage we had!

@chrismccowan12 2 ай бұрын

My dad grew up running the mou tains of Dickinson County, Va, my Papaw never missed a conversation with Ralph and Carter, bor a show if they were local. We just recently made it to the Home on the Hills Festival and watched 2 play. Everytime I hear a banner or fiddle I think of the great men that once roamed those mountains of Dickenson County. It will always be home to me.

@coopgb 2 жыл бұрын

We went from this to people rapping about cornbread in 60 years.

@cathyjackson607 6 жыл бұрын

Grew up with my wonderful Daddy singing this song...miss him and all the wonderful times in Church.

@nealpomea2836 7 жыл бұрын

Some beautiful day I'll meet 'em in heaven, where no one will be a stranger to me. Thank you Albert E. Brumley!

@elliehjemmet 3 жыл бұрын

I was just scrolling down here wondering who wrote this incredible song... one of my very favorites! Many thanks, indeed!

@barbaralabry9026 4 жыл бұрын

My dad, who would be 100 if he had made it, was from Western Virginia. The Stanleys and Carter family's timeless music brings him close

@adamszayden8330 3 жыл бұрын

Hello Barbara

@Jamanko45 2 жыл бұрын

A new definition of hell on Earth, with high lonesome harmony.

@countrypaul 5 жыл бұрын

Quiet, intense, astounding. They make the creation of such an exquisite sound seem effortless.

@appledoreman 7 жыл бұрын

Bluegrass music doesn't get much better than this. What a great clip & thank you for posting.

@martydaniel3163 5 жыл бұрын

Hell yes I cheated

@looleescrogg3170 5 жыл бұрын

Bluegrass music is so amazing. Thank you for kind of music..gotta luv it!!!

@chuckwagon5518 8 жыл бұрын

Any country that can produce music (and musicians) like this has got to be great!

@cedricdeering1729 4 жыл бұрын

The. Best

@fullshark09 2 жыл бұрын

One of the most beautiful songs ever to be written on the english language.

@zoltarzoltar4199 6 жыл бұрын

What's good about this music, is that you don't get a headache listening to it!

@donniehicks3214 2 жыл бұрын

Legends.Carter been gone a long time.now Ralph as joined his brother

@davidholton9667 Жыл бұрын

So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song. Hello

@kittyblue591 6 жыл бұрын

One of their best ever---this is how it should be done!

@shannonburns6724 2 жыл бұрын

Some of the greatest meaning words ever uttered. God be with us.

@davidholton9667 Жыл бұрын

So sorry for the infringe on your privacy. Beautiful song. Hello

@steveroberts8719 5 жыл бұрын

Stanley Brothers were awesome. The best old-timey band of all time! Rams forever.

@rosamundackenthorpe8899 6 жыл бұрын

This is the best. Reminds me of my Great Grandparents. How I miss them. Some beautiful day I'll meet them in Heaven. God Bless Everyone

@RoryVanucchi 2 жыл бұрын

It's a classic by two legends.. powerful music

@williamgailit2064 8 жыл бұрын

love this song can hear it over and over excellent song

@reggiemoses2508 Жыл бұрын

Good music cannot be denied. This is powerful stuff. I put it right next to Mahalia Jackson. Gospel music that touches the soul.

@shirleywhite8286 2 жыл бұрын

I love this song. So beautiful.

@RBnd-te6ez 2 жыл бұрын

Sure is

@justinmays9680 7 жыл бұрын

This songs reminds me of my grandparents that are not here anymore wish them every day

@tommedland1264 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting Rank Stranger by Carter and Ralph. I have enjoyed listening to it over and over. I love Carter's style on the guitar. Great blue grass music! Margaret Medland