Clifton and Duffey

[re simmers]

I'm looking for "Mother Still Prays For You" by Bill Clifton and John Duffey. I heard it on the radio a few wks ago. Google taught me that it's on "Bill Clifton Meets the Country Gentlemen" which looks like a great project, but I can't find it, nor any collection that's got it. Anyone know where I can get it?

Thanks

Bob

[Willie Poole]

Bob, Did Google say what label that recording was on, if so maybe contacting them would help you....

Willie

[Mandolin Mick]

I don't know if this helps you, but the song itself is available on "The Gospel Side of Bill Clifton", recorded with his Dixie Mountain Boys or you can download it as an MP3.

[Mandolin Mick]

Another route you can take is by having Vinyl Revolution make a digital CD for you directly from the LP for $34.95. I did this with one of my favorite albums "A Lonesome Wail From the Hills" by Carl Story and His Rambling Mountaineers. Works great!

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[re simmers]

Rather not pay $34.95. It's on the London(Japan) label.

I really would like to get the Clifton and Duffey version rather than the Dixie Mt Boys. Clifton and Duffey sounded fantastic. I assume the rest of the album is great.

Bob

[Mandolin Mick]

Well, I'm sure you can find an LP somewhere, but unless you have a turntable you'll have to transfer it to CD or cassette. Just trying to help.

But, I love Duffey's mandolin work too! :mandosmiley:

[jackmalonis]

Most turntables now come with a USB connector so you can concert vinyl to MP3 music files.
I have one and it's pretty easy to do, and it makes for some good quality audio files!

[re simmers]

I have the turntable and connections. I just need to find the LP.

I know the song, but Clifton & Duffey singing it is just superb.

Bob

[J.Albert]

"Mother Still Prays For You"
From "Code of the Mountains", 1964

Re-released on
Bill Clifton, Around the World to Poor Valley (Bear Family)
Disc 4, track 2

http://www.countysales.com/products.php?product=BILL-CLIFTON-'Around-The-World-To-Poor-Valley'-(8CDs)

http://www.amazon.com/Around-World-Poor-Valley-Clifton/dp/B00005LQFB

[J.Albert]

Your Mother Still Prays For You

The night was dark and stormy
The wind was howling wild
As an aged mother gazed upon
The portrait of her child

As she gazed on the baby's features
That once filled her heart with joy
He's now in this wild world roaming
That mother's long lost boy

Your mother still prays for you, Jack
Your mother still prays for you
In a home far over the ocean
Your mother still prays for you

At last there came a letter
It was deeply edged in black
From a comrade long forgotten
Who still remembered Jack

They have lain your dear old mother
In a grave so dark and cold
And she wants her boy who is roaming
To meet her on the streets of gold

His stony heart was broken
As he thought of his mother dear
And in spite of his comrades laughing
He could not keep back his tears

In spite of the great temptations
That once filled his heart with tears
So he started for Heaven that evening
As sweetly the people did sing