You Don't Have Far To Go
I've Got Confidence
Billie Roop
Lundy Recording Studio - Barbourville, Kentucky
Viola Records VR-140
The Roop Family members were part of a Pineville Pentecostal Church group known as The Uplifters. The cover and title suggest that the record is a solo project for Billie Roop. However, the song It Took The Best Heaven Had is credited as having been written by Roop. So I think the marketing idea was to feature her and this song and the album, as a whole, is a family project.
There is a list of studio musicians on the jacket. A guitar is not credited. So I think the odd guitar is probably being played by a Roop in the sample You Don't Have Far To Go, (a tune Roop also wrote). Apparently the owner of Lundy Records, David Duane Lundy, played drums on this LP.
This record is unusual and wonderful.
Two diverse samples! Yeah, I can tell that this one is a winner!
ReplyDeleteComing back to this album again and again. Unfortunately the only two songs on the world wide web. Maybe one day the whole album will show up :). Thanks for posting these samples
ReplyDeleteSlowly... I've been going through early posts to update them, occasionally I add the full audio file. Hopefully, I will live long enough to update this one... : )
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