I Feel Like Singing Today [Original recording reissued]

Ralph Stanley, Jim Lauderdale | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 9, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Dualtone Music Group
• ASIN: B0000640MU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #226,472 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I feel like singing today., April 8, 2000

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This review is from: I Feel Like Singing Today (Audio CD)

This is one of the best CDs of last year, bluegrass or any style. Ralph Stanley, as always, is stunning, and Lauderdale proves himself as one of the finest songwriters in the business. "I Feel Like Singing Today" is the kind of song people could be singing 100 years from now. "Like Him" is one of the most beautiful gospel songs I have ever heard recorded. It's hard to believe the song isn't 100 years old. With Steve Earle's "Mountain" and Dolly Parton's "The Grass is Blue" both also coming out last year, my CD player isn't getting much rest. All three CD's are great, but this one is hard to top.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Manly men singing with feeling, January 9, 2000

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Lynn H. Carrier (Hooperville, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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Ralph's gift to us all has been the inspiration he gives other muscians and song writers. This CD is my favorite of the 350 or so that I have bought during the last 5 years. It has it all, singing with feeling, muscianship, new songs, old songs, ledgends backing up the new singer, bluegrass story telling songs, and gospels. If you could only buy one bluegrass CD; buy this one. If you like Hazel Dickens, Alison Krauss, Bill Monroe, Buck Owens, Mac Wisman, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Longview, or Asleep at the Wheel, then Jim Lauderdale's and Ralph Stanley's make you 'Feel Like Singing Today'. This CD celebrates!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Powerful Music, February 28, 2004

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I Feel Like Singing Today (Audio CD)

Teaming up with the reigning patriarch of bluegrass music Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys isn't a guarantee for success, but Jim Lauderdale makes this pairing an absolute joy from start to finish. Unlike another album that came out the same year using the same formula (Steve Earle's pairing with the Del McCroury Band), Lauderdale wrote (or co-wrote) only about two-thirds of these songs, and will on occasion take a back seat to Stanley, who takes the lead vocal on the a capella "Like Him," one of nine Lauderdale originals.

Lauderdale slips into the bluegrass genre like he was born into it. The opening track, "I Feel Like Singing Today," is another Lauderdale original that begins the album on an upbeat toe-tapping note. Lauderdale's songwriting partner on a couple tracks is none other than Grateful Dead Lyricist Robert Hunter. They penned the rollicking "Joy, Joy, Joy" and "I Will Wait for You."

Lauderdale's originals hold up well along such bluegrass chestnuts as "You'll Find Her Name Written There" and "What About You," perhaps more closely associated with Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs respectively. In addition there are a pair of Carter Stanley gems, "Harbor of Love" and "Who Will Sing for Me."

The album closes on a high note with Ralph Stanley taking the lead vocal on the Lauderdale original "Who Thought the Railroad Wouldn't Last." This is powerful music. In his liner notes Lauderdale says he wants to "celebrate and share" the music of Ralph Stanley. He has succeeded gloriously. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED