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Put Your Loving Arms All Around Me
Bare Bones’ new CD features Becky Kimmons (lead), Bill Kimmons (bass/baritone), and Mark Davis (tenor/baritone), with Dock Cutlip (tenor/baritone) on bonus track 16. Learn more/buy it through CD Baby -- click here.

Track List:

1. Every Knee Must Bow (Traditional) (To sample the first 30 seconds, click here!)
2. There’ll Be No Distinction There (Alfred Reed)
3. I Ain’t Never (Tillis/Pierce)
4. You Really Got a Hold on Me (Smokey Robinson) (Click here to hear a 30-second sample)
5. Do Lord (Traditional)
6. The Man in the Middle (Tom H. Campbell)
7. Old Virginia (Traditional)
8. Shop Around (Gordy/Robinson)
9. I’d Rather Be Your Number 3 (Rebecca Kimmons)
10. Oh Lord, Have Mercy on My Soul (Unknown)
11. Blind Bartemus (Traditional)
12. I Loved a Roving Gambler (Rebecca Kimmons)
13. The Cruel War (Traditional)
14. Your Long Journey (Rosealee Watson)
15. The Parting Hand (John Blain)
16. I’ll Meet You in the Morning (Albert Brumley)

Learn more/buy it through CD Baby -- click here.

Earlier CDs

Earlier Soup Kitchen CDs are still available by sending a check or a money order to

Bare Bones
550 Anderson Heights Rd.
Charleston, WV 25314

Cost is $15.00 per CD. ($5.00 from the sale each Soup Kitchen CD sold goes to Manna Meal, Charleston’s local soup kitchen.)

Handling and shipping:

• For 1 CD, add $2.50
• 2 to 4, $3.00 media mail
• 5 to 9, $3.50 media mail
• For more than 9 CDs, the postage goes up $.50 cents for each group of 1 to 4 CDs.

If you want to buy more than this, email us and let's talk!

OR

You can purchase them retail at:

• The Art Company, Davis, WV
• Budget Records & Tapes, 3708 MacCorkle Avenue, SE, Charleston, WV
• Tamarack, 1 Tamarack Park, Beckley, WV Exit 45, I-77/I-64
• Taylor Books, 226 Capitol Street, Charleston, WV

The Tracks

We've got some technical hoops to jump through before we can offer listenable sound clips, so we hope you'll bear with us until we get them. In the meantime, here's what's on the CDs:

Bare There Were They

1. Pair in a Paradise (Lotus Dickey)
2. The Tattler (Washington Philips)
3. Pretty Bird (Hazel Dickens)
4. If Walls Could Talk (Bobby Miller)
5. Blue on Monday (Lotus Dickey)
6. Red-Haired Mary (Traditional)
7. Carry My Burden (Lotus Dickey)
7. Beware and Take Care (Blind Alfred Reed)
9. Mercian Tittery-ary-a (Traditional)
10. Don't You Want to Be a Shepherd? (Traditional)
11. The Mill Was Made of Marble (Joe Glazer/Beth Weil)
12. Little Margaret (Traditional)
13. David Loved Bathesheba (Lotus Dickey)
14. Come Ye Sinners Poor and Needy (Joseph Hart)
15. Cold Jordan (Traditional)
16. The Low Road to Charleston (Traditional, adapted by Bill Kimmons)
17. Forgiveness (Phil Wiggins)
18. Some Day (Olive Stockton/Tim Stafford)

Stirring It Up

1. Talk About Suffering (Phil Keagy)
2. You Better Let That Liar Alone (Traditional)
3. Daniel Prayed (G. T. Speer)
4. West Virginia Chose Me (Colleen Anderson)
5. Jerusalem (Traditional)
6. Who Will Your Next Fool Be? (Willie Lee McEwen)
7. Jesus, I'll Never Forget (Unknown)
8. I'd Rather Be Your Number Three (Rebecca Kimmons)
9. God Moves in a Windstorm (Traditional)
10. Early One Morning (Traditional)
11. Young Hennerly (Traditional)
12. Working on a Building (Traditional)
13. Swing Low (Traditional)
14. The Baltimore Fire (Traditional)
15. Jesus Gave Me Water (Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers)
16. The West Virginia Hills (Ellen King/H. E. Engle)