“Have You Someone in Heaven Awaiting” is a bluegrass gospel song credited to Carter Stanley, the elder of the two Stanley Brothers. The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys recorded it in 1949, early in their career, and issued it on a 78 paired with another sacred number, “A Vision of Mother.”
The song is a tender meditation on loss and reunion — a question put to the listener about loved ones already passed on, and a gentle assurance of meeting them again. That blend of grief and hope, sung in close mountain harmony, was central to the Stanley Brothers’ sound and to the broader bluegrass gospel tradition they helped shape.
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