The folks at
King Records
love to repackage their catalog for sales through alternative venues such as truck stops and gas stations, where discs like
Traditional Bluegrass Gospel
are often found. This budget-priced 12-song anthology of
the Stanley Brothers
' late-'50s and early-'60s
gospel
recordings appears on
King
's
Gusto
imprint, but is actually a straight reissue of the 1999
CD
I'll Meet You in Church Sunday Morning
. The track list overlaps a little with
the Stanleys
' 1961
album,
Old Country Church
, which has also been reissued on CD (on the
Hollywood
budget label, yet another wing of the
/
Starday
empire).
"Harbor of Love"
is a remake of a song
first recorded for
Mercury
and, true to the album's title, many of the songs are chestnuts from the repertoires of
Roy Acuff
,
Bill Monroe
the Carter Family
, etc. Brief liner notes round out this adequate budget release. ~ Greg Adams