Reviewed by Mike Rimmer

Word's Timeless Classics series continues with this selection of old fashioned country tunes. Once the makers of the most fashionable Christian music on the planet and long lime musical contributors to Billy Graham's crusades. Barrows and Shea will still appeal to those who love this easy listening country style. Some songs are narrated with little homilies explaining the down home historical background. So you get classics like "lt Is No Secret", "He Touched Me" and "Blessed Assurance" delivered in a style like Howard Keele meets the Link-House On The Prairie. Anyone under the age of 50 will find these tunes twee and just a little tame but there must be a market for cliched country as Word continue to foist this on the public. As for me. I'm glad that Larry Norman and Other CCM pioneers turned up in the '60s to move the Church on musically!

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