Beautiful debut album by The Singing Burke Family from Bypro, Kentucky. The Singing Burke Family – Clinging To A Saving Hand By Faith I Believe by The Singing Burke Family Today, we are beset with fad religions, false prophets, fake gurus, and complicated religious doctrines that are confusing, and often, misleading. There are so many…
I love making mixes for myself and, while I’m at it, for others as well. Over the years I tried several formats for digital mixtapes. There was 8tracks (dead), mixcloud (wants money), a zip with mp3 files (only nerds download music files) and YouTube (advertising hell and bad UX). I now ended up with a…
Harlan Co., KY born, Detroit, MI implant Byon F. Smiddy on Tommy Crank’s IRMA label. On this record, Bro. Byon sings and plays many of his own songs in the Bluegrass Gospel style. Byon F. Smiddy – Jesus Said To Pray He Called My Name by BYON F. SMIDDY IRMA Records – Compatible Stereo ILP-107…
This gospel quartet, out of Indiana, had ties to both Russell County and Pulaski County in Kentucky and the Separate Baptist Church denomination. “Sing his praises” was written by the mother of two of the band members. The Springtime Gospel Quartet proudly presents this first album of songs which have been the most requested since…
Joe Bussard‘s gospel group Sunny Side Sacred Singers, released on the Fonotone Records compilation on Dust to Digital.
A wonderful singing, indeed. Links
The Phipps Family from Kentucky was known as a musical family “in the Carter Family tradition”. Founded in the last years of the depression, Arthur Leroy Phipps and his wife Kathleen Norris Helton started to play their own songs of traditional mountain music. Their friendship with A.P. Carter and the Carter Family, as well as…
Ernest C. Martin was a bluegrass and country gospel musician and evangelist from Clay City, Kentucky. Born on January 27, 1914, in Clay City, he began his career in music at an early age, playing the banjo, guitar, and banjolina, and singing in church, school dances, and pie suppers. He gained his first steady radio…
