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p. His sound was more old-timey than the way we (the Fiddlers) played it. I'd hate to seen it! The gas and the juice (electricity) was off - all the lines was cut off. We played mostly what I call, mountain music. 'Course, our family never was real singers.
I opened the door and it was up above my knees. I fish some but I'd rather hunt.
Curly Ray's fiddling blended in perfectly with Ralph Stanley's music. My brother Ned used the tenor banjo.
Although Ray sings very infrequently these days - 'my voice is pretty weak now', he says - he sang baritone when he was with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers.
Because old 'Fiddlers' albums are so scarce, Ray's versatility as a song writer remains unknown to many.
Then at last you get the day shift - about the third year.
Pickin: Is working in the mines the reason you rarely sing now?
Curly: Well, that has a lot to do with my voice. I just called it mountain fiddlin' back then. and it'd just be a dead country. That's what I was a-workin' and just part-time playin'. Paul was really the main singer with the 'Fiddlers.
We had about twelve - fifteen big hounds there, and they just dodged here and yonder. Curly Ray appears on every succeeding record until his retirement in 1993. all the band is from... and we used the tenor banjo back then; the five string wasn't too popular. We were on RCA Victor and we helped them get on the Victor label.[2]
In mid-1953, the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers beat a path back to the hills of Pike County, Virginia.
He played with them on a part-time basis until Carter Stanley's death in 1966. It caught my family in between. Peter White Coal Company, out of Bluefield, West Virginia.