“I Believe in the Old Time Way” is a bluegrass gospel song written by the duo of Charlie Moore and Bill Napier. The two were a working partnership through the mid-1960s, recording a series of albums for King Records, and they cut this song in Cincinnati in 1966.
The lyric is a plain affirmation of faith, set in the language of religious tradition — a declaration of belief in the power of prayer, in salvation, and in the “old time way” of worship handed down through generations. That theme of holding to old ways and old beliefs runs deep in bluegrass gospel.
The song outlived the Moore and Napier partnership, taken up by acts including the Dry Branch Fire Squad and the Traditional Grass.
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