Summary: Like many old time West Virginia fiddlers, Ralph Roberts is often inclined to play a song melody as an instrumental, particulary a sacred song. This is another recording from the jam that Don Couchie and I had with him on that last night at Clifftop. Purple Robe is a spiritual recorded by the Stanley Brothers for King Records in 1960. Don Couchie is backing up on guitar, I am picking three finger style on my semi-fretless Tubaphone in open G. "False accused and there condemned yet they found no fault with Him, the man who wore the scarlet purple robe."
