Get Religion cover

Get Religion was recorded in November 1960 at radio station WCRS in Greenwood, South Carolina, and issued by Starday in 1961 as SLP 152. Carl Story is on vocals and guitar, with Bud Brewster on banjo, Willie Brewster on mandolin and Claude Boone on bass, the same four who returned to WCRS in December 1960 for Story’s other Starday gospel LP of the period, Everybody Will Be Happy (SLP 137).

The twelve tracks include “Why Don’t You Haul Off and Get Religion,” “Unclouded Day,” “Gloryland Way,” “New Jerusalem Way” and “Give Me the Roses While I’m Living,” and BGD credits the writing of all twelve to Story and York. The title song also came out on a Starday single in December 1960, paired with “Hear Jerusalem Moan,” a song from the Everybody Will Be Happy session. Several of the other tracks were later put out on a Starday EP (SEP-188), and the full LP was reissued on Power Pak in 1975.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Why Don't You Haul Off and Get Religion 2:24
  2. 2 Lord Lead Me On alt version 2:05
  3. 3 The Gloryland Way 1:57
  4. 4 We Shall Meet Someday 2:23
  5. 5 An Empty Mansion 2:08
  6. 6 Unclouded Day 2:11
  7. 7 New Jerusalem Way 2:06
  8. 8 You Can't Believe Everything You Hear 2:17
  9. 9 I Feel Like Traveling On alt version 2:00
  10. 10 I Can Tell You the Time 2:01
  11. 11 Give Me the Roses 2:10
  12. 12 Just One Way to the Gate 2:09

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