Long Journey Home

In the early 1960s, when were between record labels, they spent a week playing at Johnny's Used Cars near Baltimore. loved bluegrass music and used it as a sales device, paying bands to play in his lot and sponsoring a radio show that broadcast from his office. He also ran the small label, for which s recorded four albums after their parking lot engagement. This is the second of those four. The material is classic : and the well-known title track. The other three albums in the series focus on gospel material, but this one is strictly secular and prominently features 's flying-ice-chips banjo style and, even better, the pioneering cross-picking of guitarist on excellent performances of and But, as always, the most powerful moments are those that find 's melismatic mountain tenor taking center stage, as on A must for fans. ~ Rick Anderson