For
seventy years the old-fashioned singing Chuck Wagon Gang has
been proclaiming the gospel in song starting
with that very first
recorded gospel song “The Son Hath Made Me Free”. The
year was 1936 and the Carter Quartet, as they were then known, was
assigned a daily radio program in Ft. Worth which had been vacated
by a western music group called the Chuck Wagon Gang. At the station’s
request, the Carters assumed the name and began performing cowboy/western
tunes as the group before them had done. Their love of gospel songs
prompted them to include a closing hymn each day and it wasn’t
long before the requests for the gospel songs far outnumbered the
requests for the western tunes. It wasn’t hard then to convince
the station to allow them to go to an all gospel format. The rest,
as they say, is history. The Chuck Wagon Gang has become the biggest
selling gospel group in history, having sold nearly 40 million records.
Most of our families have grown up listening to this legendary group,
so when they approached these country music legends about singing
a song on this special 70th anniversary recording, the artists responded
with a resounding “yes”. It is with great pride that
Song Garden Music Group presents this “once in a lifetime” CD
featuring the world famous Chuck Wagon Gang along with some of
their favorite country music friends.
