The Webster Brothers and Carl Butler - Angel Band - 1954

Recorded at Castle Studio in Nashville, TN on October 27, 1954. Initially issued on Columbia 21353 in January 1955. Flip side is “Hallelujah, We Shall Rise!” (by Carl Butler and The Webster Brothers). This transfer from the anthology album “I Wouldn’t Change You If I Could” (Bear Family BCD 16699 AH, 2006). Features Carl Butler (guitar and lead vocal), Earl Webster (guitar and harmony vocal), Audie Webster (mandolin and harmony vocal), Jack Shook (guitar), Don Helms (steel guitar), Dale Potter (fiddle), Marvin Hughes (piano) and Ernie Newton (bass). Song composed by Jefferson Hascall, first published as “Angels Bear Me Away” in “The Melodeon” (J. W. Dadmun, 1860). Song set to a new melody by William Batchelder Bradbury and published as “The Land Of Beulah” in “Bradbury’s Golden Shower of S. S. Melodies: a new collection of hymns and tunes for the Sabbath school” (Ivison, Phinney & Co., 1862). Song first issued by the Dixie Sacred Singers (Uncle Dave Macon with Sam and Kirk McGee) as “O Bear Me Away On Your Snowy Wings” (Vocalion 5160, 1927).