Hi, Artful Dodger -
You're right that there are six CDs - one of the five albums has two discs. While "Sharon Mountain Harmony" and "Twas on a Night Like This" have religious songs, I don't believe any of the performers was particularly religious. That being the case, I think they were better able to bring out the musicality of the religious songs without getting sappy on us.
-Joe-

Here's something I did earlier on this subject.

Thread #75848   Message #1338171
Posted By: Joe Offer
24-Nov-04 - 06:16 PM
Thread Name: Info Req:Tis a Gift & Kickin' My Dog (Golden Ring)
Subject: Golden Ring Recordings

The Golden Ring CD's are my favorite folk recordings. The first one is Golden Ring: A Gathering of Friends for Making Music, originally issued as an LP in 1964 and reissued on CD in 1996. Here's the track listing:

1. The Blind Man's Song
2. Jesse James
3. Nonesuch
4. The Hound Dog Song
5. Captain Kidd
6. Dipper of Stars
7. When Jesus Wept
8. Simple Gifts
9. Rollin' A-Rollin (Child #10)
10. One Man Shall Mow My Meadow
11. Howie's Breakdown
12. Barbara Ellen (Child #84)
13. Golden Ring Around My Susan Girl
14. The Holly Bears a Berry
15. Babe of Bethlehem
16. This Old World

The other Golden Ring recordings are:

• The New Golden Ring: Five Days Singing
  • Volume I
    Benjamin Bomaneer
    D Composition in C
    Ginny's Gone to Ohio
    It Soon Be Done
    Leaning On the Everlasting Arms
    Lord Bateman
    Over the Waterfall
    Poor Howard
    Rolling Hills of the Border, The
    Sundown
    Temperance Reel
    Waterbound
    Waters of Tyne, The
    World of Misery
  • Volume II (1996???)
    Ah, Robin
    Angeline the Baker
    Calvary
    Few Days
    Galveston Flood, The
    Goodbye, Fare You Well
    Jute Mill Song
    The Kangaroo Song
    Mist Covered Mountains
    Mortality
    Over the Water to Charlie
    Rolling Home
    Sam Gone Away
    Sammy's Bar
• For All the Good People: A Golden Ring Reunion (1992)
  All The Good People
  Damned Old Piney Mountains
  Dark Island
  Devil In the Garden
  Early
  Golden Years
  Goodbye to the Lowlands
  Grandma's Song
  Last Letter Home
  Last Train to Glory
  The Last Wagon
  Little Creek
  Napoleon Crossing the Rhine
  The Reindeer Song
  Richmond
  Singer's Request
  Springtime Brings On the Shearing
  Stoney's Waltz
  Weaver's Reverie
  When You and I Were Young, Maggie
• Twas on a Night Like This (A Christmas Legacy)
  Chocolate Burro
  Christmas Day in the Morning
  Christmas Hornpipe
  Dark December
  Every Star Shall Sing a Carol
  Here We Come A-Wassailing
  The Holly Bears a Berry
  Holly Tree Carol
  Infant Holy
  In the Bleak Midwinter
  Kentucky Wassail
  Last Month in the Year
  Mary Had a Baby
  New Year Round
  Peace Round
  Quaker Benediction
  Silver Star Hornpipe
  Skater's Waltz
  Sweet Lamb
  Sweetly, the Little Bells Ring
  Twas On a Night Like This
  Under the Mistletoe Bough
• Sharon Mountain Harmony: A Golden Ring of Gospel
  Been In the Storm So Long
  Blessed Quietness
  Bright Morning Star
  Climbing High Mountains
  Done Found My Lost Sheep
  Glory Bound
  I Want to Die Easy
  I Will Arise
  I've Been Listening
  Lord I Want More Religion
  Oh, He's Taken My Feet
  Peace Like a River
  There Are Angels Hovering Round
  Time Has Made a Change in Me
  Trouble So Hard
  Turtle Dove

-Joe Offer-