18 Gospel Favorites
J. Ross | 10/04/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I'm a big fan of "old-time" music and "early bluegrass."
This is a tremendous album. I was at a small family blugrass
festival in Nine Mile, Tennessee (Edmond's Family Festival), and
I asked a vendor if he had any fiddlers' CDs, He had all of the usual ones (Vassar Clements, Chubby Wise, Kenny Baker, but he told me that I had to listen to Mainer. I'd never heard of him.
This is authentic music. The vocals are great, I especially like Heavenly Airplane, Lonely Tombs. Job's Coffin, Where You Gonna Hide. The group had apparently played together for years.
I am very curious to see if the lead vocalist, Morris Herbert, had any other work recorded; he's great!!
Mr. Mainer's fiddle work is great; check ou the intro on
Those Lonely Tombs. great stuff!!!!"