Sunday, August 30, 2020

Jack Bishop Sings Songs of Faith (Gloryland 101)--Bluegrass gospel from Columbus OH!

 


Recorded in Columbus, Ohio, but pressed in Lafayette, Tennessee, according to the matrix number (ARP-8185-- Atwell Record Pressing, Inc).  No law against that.  And no law against providing bogus composer credits on this type of LP--a common practice, and who reads the credits, anyway?   Well, me, come to think of it.  Anyway, I made my best attempt at tracking down the actual composers and writers where necessary, only ending up with five Unknowns. In the case of Light at the River (actual title: There's a Light at...), the 1896 lyrics are used on this performance, but it's not the original tune--so I had to designate the composer as Unknown.  Will the Circle Be Unbroken gets an Unknown, too, since it's not the Charles H. Gabriel--Ada R. Haberson number from 1907--it's the version associated with the Carter Family.  And we get the J.W. Vaughan The Old Country Church--the old Old Country Church, as opposed to J.D. Sumner's newer song by that title. 

This LP is as bluegrass gospel as bluegrass gospel gets, and the excellent musicians are listed, along with little bios, in the notes, which is quite handy.  Not sure about "borned," however ("Jack was borned and reared in Kentucky..."), but typos happen.  Such as the president of Atlantic Records getting songwriter credit for Somebody Touched Me.  Seriously--check the label scan included in the zip.

And I'm about to doze off at the keyboard.  Ragweed pollen is here, so I'm taking Benadryl, and I'm half-here, at the most.  So I'd better sign off.  But not before uploading the zip file and linking to it.  Great bluegrass gospel awaits you.  Enjoy!








The Fields Have Turned Brown (Carter Stanley)
Purple Robe (Odell McLeod)
The Heaven Light Is Shining on Me (Unknown)
Oh Those Tombs (Unknown)
Memories of Mother (Carter Stanley)
Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Unknown)
The Old Country Church (J.W. Vaughan)
Shouting on the Hills (E. Bartlett)
Somebody Touched Me (Unknown)
Over in the Gloryland (James W. Acuff-Emmett S. Dean)
Light at the River (w: Merritt Casey-m: Unknown)
Where the Soul Never Dies (Wm. M. Golden)








Lee

3 comments:

Sky Raven said...

Hi Lee. After reading the comments in your latest blog post (10-18-20), I decided to check out this post. Although I don't usually go for the gospel albums, I do like bluegrass gospel (go figure!), so I decided to give it a listen. Very enjoyable album - - a little hard to understand the words at times (not unusual for bluegrass), but very nice blue grass. Thanks for posting this. I can't understand why 116 others downloaded this and did not comment. Take care. Burt

Anonymous said...

Yes, this album is wonderful. Thank you vor sharing!

Lee Hartsfeld said...

My pleasure!