The Smithsonian Folkways recording SF CD 40097, entitled "Close to Home: Old Time Music from Mike Seeger's Collection" contains track number 37: "He Said If You Love Me, Feed My Sheep" by the Stancer Quartet.

The liner notes:

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He Said If You Love Me, Feed My Sheep
Stancer Quartet, vocal quartet, personnel unknown
Recorded from WBBI radio, Abingdon, VA, 2:30 PM, 8 January 1967.

If you want to hear old-time family and community singing in the South, tune in to small-town Sunday morning religious programs. Someimes, they're broadcast direct from services in small, informal churches, sometimes from radio stations, and sometimes pre-recorded in a home. I heard a beautiful solo unaccompanied singer on such a broadcast from Stuart, VA only ten years ago.

For this recording I set up my Nagra machine a the Sturgill's home one Sunday while they were at church and recorded several programs off the air. This song was part of the "Community Revivial Hour" with pastor Jim Nunley (I'm guessing at the spelling). The much better known Chestnut Grove Quartet had broadcast immediately before.

Unofrtunately, I haven't been able to find anyone in the Abingdon area who has knkowledge of the group. I can only guess that they were not together for very long. This quartet is unusual in that they have one, possibly two, women members and they occasionally sing in unison. Gospel quartets are usually all men.

--- [end liner notes by Mike Seeger, 1997].