Black Twig Pickers and Charlie Parr: Glory in the Meeting House

Now if there is anything I am a sucker for it’s a Gospel tune! I have my grandmother’s, God rest her soul, collection of Elvis doing Gospel, Johnny Cash’s Gospel songs can bring a tear to my eye and of course as I mentioned above the classics like The Carter Family. You bring a fiddle to the party and sing about Jesus or hellfire and I am likely going to be a fan. I already had the album above in my dirty little sinning hands when I came across the very same backing some dude named Charlie Parr with whom I was not familiar. I quickly became a fan of Charlie and a bigger fan of The Black Twig Pickers. If Ironto Special makes you want to throw some corn squeezin’s down the hatch them Glory in the Meeting House is just as sure to make you want to repent, grab a snake and start praisin’ Jesus. You just can’t beat old time Gospel songs and with the instrumentation from The Black Twig Pickers it is top of pile as far as modern Gospel goes.

-- Romeo Sid Vicious, Nine Bullets