lyrics by Johnnie Bailes
recorded by Hank Williams


https://youtu.be/aq3jQStr4ms

Now and then I am asked to play a gospel number at the funeral service of a family member of a close friend of the family. This is especially important to me if the person, who has passed on, is an old musician. I always think that a musician ought to be sent off with a piece of live music from some...

written and recorded by Bob Dylan


https://youtu.be/2dJn9LmcCVI

Here's a short but bluesy gospel piece written and recorded by Bob Dylan. I think that this is a great number to learn because it's short and simple and yet it has a rock-a-billy swing to it and a few extra accidentals to add a little spice.

It's lyrics are relatively easy to learn and you simple to ad-lib to...

Do Lord (Do You Remember Me.)
written by Julia Ward Howe
cover by Elger Heath

https://youtu.be/o13vQyYzdz8


This is one of those Sound Bites that I captured at a jam. That's me at the mic. There's a lot of background noise, which I could not clean up. And the occasional fiddle. This is one of...

written by Frank Southern
recorded by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs

https://youtu.be/aHPimREzyiE


There is something about Bluegrass, and by extension, Bluegrass-Gospel, that has always appealed to me. This style of music utilizes timing formats that, in other music genres, would be considered unacceptable. Bluegrass artists often take a line, in a song, and they will extend it on...

written by William Matthew Golden (1914)
recorded by Tony Rice and Ricky Skaggs
https://youtu.be/wrVl5NHbFbg


Here is a beautiful gospel number, written by William Matthew Golden, called 'Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies'. I came across it on the internet and I simply had to try my hand at it. The version I covered was based upon the recording made by Tony Rice and Ricky Skaggs.
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