20 Gospel Favorites is a 1997 reissue on Rural Rhythm Records (RC 187) presenting the identical session content as the label's 1967 original release Sings Country Gospel Songs (RRHB 187). Hylo Brown (vocals, guitar), Ross Branham (five-string banjo), Dan Milhon (dobro), Jack Casey (guitar), and Dick Brickles (acoustic bass) recorded the twenty-track set in Akron, Ohio, in 1967 under producer Lee Sutton. The reissue retains the full original program under a new title and catalog number with no changes to the session content. The recording documents Brown and the Rural Rhythm–era Timberliners in straight-ahead acoustic bluegrass-gospel, with Brown's high Kentucky tenor and a bare-bones ensemble that traces its lineage directly to the camp-meeting tradition. See also the original 1967 release on Rural Rhythm RRHB 187.
Tracklist
- 1 Sweeter than the flowers 1:45
- 2 Wait for the light to shine 1:40
- 3 No hidin' place down here 1:44
- 4 The ship that mother sailed on 2:07
- 5 Gently waves the weeping willow 2:00
- 6 Workin' on a building 1:22
- 7 One step more 3:12
- 8 Jacob's ladder 1:52
- 9 Lamp lighting time in the valley 1:32
- 10 Will the angels play their harps for me 1:58
- 11 Walking in Jerusalem 1:24
- 12 Methodist pie 2:25
- 13 If I could hear my mother pray again 1:44
- 14 Where the Soul Never Dies alt version 2:00
- 15 He's coming to us dead 2:07
- 16 Two little orphans 1:49
- 17 Too many parties 2:42
- 18 Our home will be lonesome tonight 1:20
- 19 Paul and Silas alt version 2:20
- 20 Just a Closer Walk With Thee alt version 2:47