Burke- your refreshing of this thread on this day gives me the shivers! Just shortly before you wrote this, I called Juneappal Recordings, asking if our little label, Greenhays, could lease the "Sweet Rivers" album to make it available as a CD, and the person who talked to me said- what a coincidence; there had been an increase in requests for the recording, even in cassette form, and that she had suggested that it be one of the old ones chosen for CD foremat.
Welcome news- and now I turn on my computer and here's this revived thread. Weird...but wonderful!

Wait- that's not all. I found the list of songs on that record, and "Been a Long Time Travelin' is NOT on it- I had just thought it was... There's other fine ones, though, which the church folks did in the same style. Some of them:

Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow
I've Got a Mother Gone to Glory
My Head and Stay
Jesus Grant Us All a Blessing
A Few More Years Shall Roll
Sweet Rivers of Redeeming Love
The White Pilgrim

I'll keep looking for the recording of, 'Long Time Travelin.' I know it's on one of my old records.   Jean