Song Rail 6 - Button 1: Sacred Singing

"Beulah Land"

Dean Family. Family religious singing without musical instruments came with the earliest settlers, and continues today

"More To Go to Heaven For"

Estil and Orna Ball, husband and wife gospel duo, had a weekly radio broadcast for over 50 years, and sang at many hundreds of funerals

"Mountain Church"

Don Reno and Red Smiley with band, early bluegrass instrumental virtuosos, were also fine composers and brilliant gospel singers

"A Wandering Light"

Stony Point Quartet, a string band gospel quartet, sing a song with a recurring mystic theme, common in native mountain songs