Smoky Mountain Hymns -- Smoky Mountain Sunday

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Smoky Mountain Hymns -- Smoky Mountain Sunday


	Price: $9.95 Availability: In Stock Product#: CD-5329J Format: CD Released: 1993 Label: Brentwood Music Description: Instrumental -- Traditional Bluegrass Total Playing Time: 36:00

This recording is listed under:
Bluegrass + Mountain Dulcimer

Songs Included On This CD
(Click To Listen to 90 second mp3 samples)

1. Bringing In The Sheaves (3:25)
2. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (2:40)
3. Gospel Train (2:58) -- Male Solo (Lyrics Included In CD Insert)
4. What Wondrous Love Is This? (2:52)
5. At The Cross/on Jordan's Stormy Banks (2:51)
6. Sweet Hour Of Prayer (3:16)
7. This Is My Father's World/He's Got The Whole World In His Hands (3:13)
8. Rise Up (2:39) -- Male Solo (Lyrics Included In CD Insert)
9. In The Garden (2:54)
10. I Love To Tell The Story (4:04)
11. Simple Gifts (2:07)
12. My Savior's Love (2:28)

My comments...
This CD is a continuation of the Smoky Mountain Hymns Series. (I call it Volume #5.)

Inside the CD cover is a $10 coupon offer for Brentwood Music. It asks you to fill out a questionnaire to send to the Brentwood Record Company. They will mail you back $10 worth of coupons to purchase other Brentwood Music titles that usually consist of their popular "Christian Rock" and Christian Rap" titles. In short, the coupons they send you are for music that is NOT worth wasting your money on.

What's inside the CD cover...
Smoky Mountain Sunday is a celebration of the music and beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains. Experience the unique sound of hand-crafted instruments playing timeless hymns of faith. Share the pure joy of authentic mountain harmony as you hear renditions of Gospel Train and Rise Up as sung by Craig Duncan. Discover the wonder of God's awesome power through sound of music that reflects one of the mightiest of God's creation. The Great Smoky Mountains.

Mountain Dulcimer. Unique to the Appalachian (Smoky) Mountains, the mountain dulcimer is one of the oldest instruments in the United States. Although the size and shape has changed over the years, the basic concept of three or four strings stretched across the top of a narrow, hollow box has endured for centuries. To play the dulcimer, it is placed across the player's lap with the neck or scroll to the left. The left hand presses the strings along the fret board with either the fingers of a small carved wooden "noter" and the right hand plucks or sweeps the strings with fingertips, a guitar pick, or goose quill.

Autoharp. The autoharp was developed in the 1890's and became a favorite of American Folk musicians in the 1920's. It usually have thirty-six strings arranged from longest to shortest giving it a harp-like appearance. A series of chord bars, or damper bars are placed over the strings and prevent all strings but those in a particular chord from playing when that chord bar is pushed. The auroharp is usually held across the chest of the player who then strums with one hand, using fingers or a pick, while using the other hand to press the chord bars.

Hammered Dulcimer. The hammered dulcimer can be traced all of the way back to ancient Biblical times. Usually in the shape of a trapezoid, the hammered dulcimer consists of a shallow box with forty-eight strings stretched across a bridge on either side. Unlike the Mountain Dulcimer which is strummed of plucked, the Hammered Dulcimer is struck with special hand carved hammers or mallets which are topped with padded knobs of leather or felt. The unique sound of the Hammered Dulcimer is a result of he continued resonance of the strings after they are struck.

The instruments that were used in this recording were... Fiddle, Hammered Dulcimer, Mandolin, Autoharp, and lead vocals in Gospel Train and Rise Up.