Jim Skelding

Harold Jones had been the fiddler on the band’s earlier albums. In Skelding’s years with Appalachian Express the lineup was Bobby Thompson on guitar, Clyde Bailey on banjo and guitar, Vernon Hughes on mandolin and Earl West on bass, with Cindy West, Bailey, Hughes and Earl West singing. All three of its Rebel albums were recorded at Bias Recording in Springfield, Virginia: I’ll Meet You in the Morning (1988), which includes “Lord Lead Me On,” Express Tracks (1989) and Walkin’ the Blues (1990), whose sessions began on 23 February 1990.