CCD 291 WILMA LEE & STONEY COOPER - THE GOLDEN AGE OF ... (20 tracks) = F

IDLE GOSSIP, IDLE WORDS/MOONLIGHT ON WEST VIRGINIA/STONEY (Are You Mad At Your Gal)/THE CLINCH MOUNTAIN WALTZ/THE WEST VIRGINIA POLKA/WHAT CAN I SAY/YOU BELONG TO SOMEBODY ELSE/WICKED PATH OF SIN/THIS WORLD CAN'T STAND LONG/I AIN'T GONNA WORK TOMORROW/DON'T PLAY THAT SONG (On The Juke Box Tonight)/I DREAMED ABOUT MOM LAST NIGHT/THE LITTLE ROSEWOOD CASKET/ WHAT WILL I DO/TWO LITTLE ORPHANS/WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THIS WORLD/WILL THE LORD LET YOU IN/MOTHER'S PRAYER/I'M TAKING MY AUDITION/HE WILL SAVE YOUR SOUL.

The Coopers was one of the most successful husband and wife duos dedicated to Mountain flavored Country Music. Both singers had a very powerful voice. This album includes some of the very early and rare Rich-R-Tone recordings previously released in 1946 and the rest is Columbia items up until 1953 with Bill Carver and Buck Graves on Dobro, Stoney on fiddle, Wilma Lee on rhythm guitar, Ab Cole on bass and Blaine Stewart on mandolin. Wilma Lee does 4 solo vocals and all others are duets with Stoney. Ab Cole assists vocally on 2 of the Rich-R-Tones. After Stoney's death in 1977, Wilma continued as a solo act. Her style was changed to Bluegrass then with her playing the banjo.