Fern Jones: The Glory Road

by Fern Jones

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1.	I Am A Pilgrim 02:30	buy track
2.	You Ain't Got Nuthin' 02:40	buy track
3.	I Do Believe 02:05	buy track
4.	I Was There When It Happened 02:06	buy track
5.	Be Thankful You're You 02:26	buy track
6.	Strange Things Happening Every Day 02:26	buy track
7.	I Ain't Got Time 02:14	buy track
8.	Just A Little Talk With Jesus 02:19	buy track
9.	Keeps Me Busy 02:33	buy track
10.	Take My Hand, Precious Lord 02:40	buy track
11.	Let Tomorrow Be 01:59	buy track
12.	Didn't It Rain 02:29	buy track
13.	I Was There When It Happened (Alternate Version) 02:20	buy track
14.	My Prayer For The Ones I Love 02:27	buy track
15.	I Do Believe (Alternate Version) 02:16	buy track
16.	I Don't Know 02:17	buy track
17.	We'll Understand It By And By 02:00	buy track
18.	Whispering Hope 02:00	buy track
19.	Keeps Me Busy (Alternate Version) 02:32	buy track
20.	Let Tomorrow Be (Alternate Version) 02:04	buy track
21.	I Don't Care What The World May Do 02:10	buy track
22.	Just A Closer Walk 02:41	buy track
23.	This World Is Not My Home 01:57	buy track
24.	When A Sinner Prays 02:37	buy track

about

Fern Jones’ only album, released by Dot Records in 1959, captured 36-year-old Sister Fern as she anointed church music with the same untamed energy that younger white Southerners were bringing to their rock ’n’ roll. Produced by Mac Wiseman and showcasing crack Nashville session players Hank “Sugarfoot” Garland, Floyd Cramer, Joe Zinkan, and Buddy Harman fresh off their June 1958 session with The Pelvis, Singing A Happy Song should’ve taken Jones from dusty canvas big tops to the Opry’s storied stage. But with no 45 to flog, Jones instead sold nary a record and never did hear herself on the radio. Her fiery rockabilly gospel was a few shades too radical for the conservative, traditional, near puritanical public she played to anyway. Fern Jones: The Glory Road collects her Singing A Happy Song LP and cuts including “Didn’t It Rain," from her The Joneses Sing album, into one rousing package, rich with the details and imagery of a brief career spent tethered to the hard ground and gazing skyward. The Glory Road’s sound gnaws at the bit and stands in reverence, a runaway rockabilly tent show without a single drop of rain on the horizon.