“Preaching, Praying, Singing” is a bluegrass gospel song recorded by Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1952, during the duo’s early and most influential years.
The lyric is a warm picture of old-time revival worship — a gathering of people lifting their voices in preaching, prayer, and song — and of the peace and fellowship the narrator finds by joining them. That celebration of communal, open-air faith was a familiar theme in bluegrass gospel, and Flatt and Scruggs delivered it with their bright, harmony-rich sound.
The song stayed in the bluegrass gospel repertoire and was revived by the Bluegrass Album Band, the all-star group whose series of recordings revisited classic material.
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