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Old Friends Get Together

Crowe, Lawson and Williams

Album · 2010 · MH 12922

Old Friends Get Together (Mountain Home MH 12922, 2010) brought together J.D. Crowe, Doyle Lawson and Paul Williams, three former members of Jimmy Martin’s Sunny Mountain Boys, for a program of sacred songs associated with Martin. Crowe and Williams played together in Martin’s band in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and Lawson’s stint there overlapped for a time with Williams’s.

Crowe plays banjo and sings baritone, Lawson plays guitar and sings lead, and Williams plays mandolin and sings lead and tenor. The band is completed by Ron Stewart on fiddle, Ben Isaacs on bass, and Harry Stinson on snare drum, with Cia Cherryholmes and Sonja Isaacs adding harmony vocals. Isaacs produced the album, which was recorded at Hilltop Studios in Nashville. The twelve songs include “Prayer Bells of Heaven,” “The Little White Church,” “When the Savior Reached Down for Me,” “This World Is Not My Home,” “Lord I’m Coming Home” and “Shake Hands with Mother Again.” The trio made a follow-up, Standing Tall and Tough, in 2014.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Prayer Bells of Heaven alt version 2:27
  2. 2 Goodbye 2:04
  3. 3 Little White Church alt version 2:46
  4. 4 Stormy Waters alt version 3:30
  5. 5 Pray The Clouds Away 2:37
  6. 6 When the Savior Reached Down for Me alt version 3:01
  7. 7 This World is Not My Home alt version 2:36
  8. 8 Voice Of My Savior 2:46
  9. 9 Lord I’m Coming Home alt version 3:30
  10. 10 Give Me Your Hand 2:54
  11. 11 Shake Hands With Mother Again 3:42
  12. 12 Who'll Sing For Me? 2:23

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