Songs of Glory, released by Columbia Records in March 1960 (CL 1424), is one of the early Flatt and Scruggs gospel-bluegrass LPs — twelve sacred numbers cut with the Foggy Mountain Boys at the duo's classic mid-period configuration. The program opens with When the Angels Carry Me Home and gathers traditional spirituals and four-part quartet pieces like Angel Band and Give Me Flowers While I'm Living, all delivered in the high-energy acoustic style the Columbia years had locked into place. Flatt's rhythm guitar and lead vocals share the front with Earl Scruggs's banjo, and the sacred material gave Columbia a way to market the band to the churchgoing audiences who had embraced bluegrass gospel as part of the postwar Southern record-buying habit.
Tracklist
- 1 When the Angels Carry Me Home 2:18
- 2 Heaven 2:32
- 3 Get On the Road to Glory 2:12
- 4 Bubbling In My Soul 2:13
- 5 I'm On My Way to Canaan's Land 2:20
- 6 Give Mother My Crown (with The Foggy Mountain Quartet) 2:45
- 7 Angel Band alt version 2:31
- 8 You Can Feel it in Your Soul alt version 2:29
- 9 I'll Never Be Lonesome Again 2:20
- 10 Take Me in Your Lifeboat alt version 2:50
- 11 Joy Bells 2:21
- 12 Give Me the Flowers (While I'm Living) 2:31