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Sacred Songs of Life and the Hereafter

Carl Story and His Rambling Mountaineers

Album · 1965 · Starday SLP 315

Sacred Songs of Life and the Hereafter (Starday SLP 315) was released in 1965 by Carl Story & His Rambling Mountaineers. The twelve songs were recorded in May 1964 at Starday Sound Studio in Nashville. Story plays guitar, Bud Brewster banjo, Will Brewster mandolin, Tommy Jackson fiddle, Jack Linneman dobro and Claude Boone bass. Tommy Hill is credited as engineer.

Several songs are Story’s own. He is credited with “Listen to Your Radio,” co-credited with Wallace Carter on “Someone’s Praying for Me,” with M. Pack on “Glory Hallelujah, Now I’m Satisfied,” and with York on “The Old Country Preacher” and “Distant Land to Roam.” The program also includes Bryant Wilson’s “Church in the Valley” and Herbert Buffum’s “When I Take My Vacation in Heaven.” Story, born in Lenoir, North Carolina, in 1916, formed the Rambling Mountaineers in 1934 and played fiddle with Bill Monroe in 1942. He was dubbed “the Father of Bluegrass Gospel Music” by the governor of Oklahoma.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Amazing Grace alt version 2:57
  2. 2 You don't love God (if you don't love your neighbo
  3. 3 Row us over the tide
  4. 4 Hand in hand
  5. 5 Rank Stranger alt version 3:08
  6. 6 Campin' in Canaan land
  7. 7 Follow Him
  8. 8 Just one rose will do
  9. 9 I'll need the prayers of those I love
  10. 10 My time will come someday
  11. 11 Mighty close to heaven
  12. 12 A picture from life's other side 3:25
  13. 13 Distant Land to Roam alt version

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