Mother's Last Word (Atteiram Records AP I 1520) is a studio album from Carl Story, the Lenoir, North Carolina vocalist and guitarist known as "the Father of Bluegrass Gospel" for his decades of recording devotional material that helped establish sacred song as a central pillar of the bluegrass tradition, presenting gospel material in the direct traditional ensemble format that characterized his long Atteiram recording relationship. Story plays guitar and sings; William "Red" Rector plays mandolin; Gordon Reed plays banjo; Harold Austin contributes instrumental work; Mitchell Mote plays additional instruments; and Randall Collins holds the bass. Rector — one of the most admired traditional mandolinists in the style established by Charlie Monroe — gives the recordings the Monroe-influenced mandolin presence that grounds the program in the bluegrass gospel tradition Story had done more than any other single performer to define and sustain.
Tracklist
- 1 Take me in the life boat 2:12
- 2 Don't you love your daddy, children 2:06
- 3 Mother's last word 2:33
- 4 I've got a lot to tell my Jesus 1:57
- 5 Mother is old 1:58
- 6 You must be born again 2:13
- 7 You don't love God 2:17
- 8 I know the time is near for me 1:52
- 9 Hear Jerusalem Moan alt version 2:54
- 10 Forty days and forty nights 2:16
- 11 Life’s Railway to Heaven alt version 2:41
- 12 Savior's love 2:10