This weekend is Pfingsten or Pentecost, time for a new Country Gospel Podcast Mix. I don’t know enough about this holy day, but I know that “BE YE FILLED” has to do with it, “how the”be being filled with the Holy Ghost”. The music comes partially from my own record transfers, trades with other collectors,…
An eBay seller told me about a gospel duo from Arkansas with an albumcover as unique as the Louvin Brothers’ Satan Is Real – complete with the cartoonish depiction of the devil and the pile of burning garbage that hell is supposed to be. I was intrigued, searched the internet, and didn’t find much besides…
The first time I heard “Get Away Jordan” was on an obscure gospel album from West Virginia. I knew it was a White gospel group, but it sounded like a Black group. After some research, it became clear that it is indeed a traditional African American spiritual gospel song. However, I discovered another interesting connection…
Somewhere in the (server) clouds of the internet hides a podcast called The Gospel Plough (this one). It came from my desire to make mixtapes, which might be the wrong term here, but every middle-aged man made them in the eighties and nineties, and many middle-aged women received them. Not with this kind of music,…
High-lonesome gospel esoterica from West Virginia on Salem Records. The group started in 1948, and this seems to be their first album, released in 1964. A little bit of an odd mix, with the guitars in the foreground, as if they were too close to the microphone. Nonetheless, a handful of good songs, beautiful mountain…
While Walter Brown and Son Floyd’s 45 on Melody Records is raw country gospel, this album by Brown with his daughter is much more calm and piano based. Theda Brown became a gospel singer herself. What’s the proper sub-genre to describe this kind of gospel music, just gospel? Quite a rare album, I believe. Enjoy!…
This Kingsport, TN trio consists of William E. Osborne on lead vocals and guitar, his wife Marlyn Jean on alto, and Ronnie East handling tenor and occasional bass parts. There is an self-titled album out there on the Jayla Records label out of Georgia, which might be their debut, this one on the Bibletone Record…
A decent bluegrass gospel album on the Crusade Enterprise/Records label out of Illinois. The Country Valley Singers Leonard Smith, Pete Price, Mary Martin, Bob Martin, and Gene Weeks Bluegrass gospel music (often referred to as country or mountain music) is one of the most popular genres today. During the recording session, The Country Valley Singers…
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…
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