Good Friday

Here are some bluegrass songs about the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ

• At Calvary
  • The Tennessee Gentlemen “Sunday Morning” (TGR)
• All in the Hands of Jesus
  • Marty Raybon “Full Circle” (Doobie Shea)
• Barabbas
  • Patent Pending “A Child of God” (Copper Creek)
  • Greenbriar “The Back of the Book” (no label)
• Blood Stains on the Cross
  • Larry Sparks “New Highway” (Mountain Home)
• By His Stripes
  • The Isaacs “Live in Atlanta” (Morning Star)
• By the Mark
  • Dailey & Vincent “Dailey & Vincent” (Rounder)
  • Red Molly “Light in the Sky” (no label)
• Cry from the Cross
  • Big Country Bluegrass “My Old Virginia Home” (Hay Holler)
  • Copperline “It’s a Long Long Way” (HR)
  • The Stanley Brothers “1953-58 & 1959” (Bear Family)
  • The Reasonable Band “Better Time’s A-Comin'” (Hard Times)
  • The Isaacs “Take Me Home” (Horizon)
  • The Stanley Gospel Tradition (Doobie Shea)
  • Joe Hott “West Virginia Rail” (Rural Rhythm)
• Crucified By Me
  • New Tradition “Cradle, Cross, Crown” (Mountain Home)
• Darkest Day
  • Heidi & Ryan “Heidi & Ryan” (Mountain Fever)
• Darkness Wept
  • Lonesome River Band “No Turning Back” (Rural Rhythm)
• The Dream
  • Randy Waller and the Country Gentlemen “One Mile East of Hazel Green” (Lendel)
• Drive Another Nail
  • Marty Raybon and Full Circle “The Gospel in Black and White” (Synchoro Records)
• Driving Nails
  • The Forbes Family “I’ll Look to Him” (Rebel)
  • The Rarely Herd “Midnight Loneliness” (Pinecastle)
  • Darin Aldridge “Call It a Day” (Pinecastle)
  • Wildfire “Rented Room on Broadway” (Pinecastle)
  • Mike Scott “Take Me Lord and Use Me” (Rural Rhythm)
• Every Scar
  • Darin and Brooke Aldridge “So Much In Between” (Mountain Home)
• Foot of the Cross
  • Tim Flannery “Kentucky Towns” (PSB)
• Friday, Sunday’s Coming
  • Tim O’Brien “Where the River Meets the Road” (Howdy Skies)
• Each Ring of the Hammer
  • Mac Wiseman “15 Gospel Favorites” (Music Mill)
• He Will Forgive You
  • Reno and Smiley “1951-1959” (King)
• His Name Was Judas
  • Larry Sparks “I Just Want to Thank You Lord” (Rural Rhythm)
• How Can We Thank Him for What He Has Done
  • Ralph Stanley and Diamond Rio “Clinch Mountain Country” (Rebel)
• I Carried My Cross
  • New Tradition “Cradle, Cross, Crown” (Mountain Home)
• I Dreamed I Drove the Nails
  • Continental Divide “Feel Good Day” (Pinecastle)
  • Crosspoint “We’re Gonna Rise” (Rural Rhythm)
• I Stand Amazed
  • Tim Shelton “I Stand Amazed” (Legend)
• If That Isn’t Love
  • The Tennessee Gentlemen “Headin’ West” (Bluegrass Shack)
• It is Finished
  • Paul Brewster “Everybody’s Talking” (Ceili)
• It Took Your Blood to Set Me Free
  • Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver “Only God” (SSK)
• It Was His Love
  • Dale Ann Bradley “Send the Angels” (Mountain Home)
• In the Hands of a Carpenter
  • Jerry Salley “All God’s Children Sing” (Very Jerry)
• Just as the Sun Went Down
  • James King “Bluegrass Storyteller” (Rounder)
  • Rich in Tradition “One Beautiful Morning” (Rich in Tradition)
• King of the Jews
  • Alvin Breeden & the Virginia Cut Ups “Papa” (Major Bluegrass/Trax, Vol. 2)
• Love is a Cross and Three Nails
  • Shannon Slaughter “Never Standing Still” (Elite Circuit)
• Man in the Middle (Three Men on a Mountain)
  • Tony Trischka and Skyline “Stranded in the Moonlight” (Flying Fish); also on “Ticket Back: a Retrospective” (Flying Fish/Rounder)
  • The Hotmud Family “Live, As We Know It” (Flying Fish)
  • Hot Rize “Radio Boogie” (Flying Fish)
  • Bill Grant and Delia Belle “Bill Grant and Delia Belle” (Rebel)
  • The New Tradition “Seed of Love” (Brentwood)
  • Valerie Smith “Patchwork Heart” (Bell Buckle)
  • Dave Evans “Hang Out a Light for Me” (Rebel)
  • David Grindstaff “Here and Now” (Mountain Fever)
• Mary Magdalene (Why You Cryin’)
  • Melonie Cannon “And the Wheels Turn” (Rural Rhythm)
• Move On
  • The Laurel Canyon Ramblers “Back on the Street Again” (Sugar Hill)
• Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone?
  • Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver “Heaven’s Joy Awaits” (Sugar Hill)
• Nailed to the Cross
  • Clay Hess “Red Haired Boy” (Legend)
• Old Rugged Cross
  • The New Tradition “Bluegrass Gospel at its Finest” (Brentwood)
  • Larry Sparks (instrumental) “The Rock I Stand On” (Rebel)
• On the Right Side
  • Flatt Lonesome “Flatt Lonesome” (Pisgah Ridge)
• Outside the Gate
  • The Forbes Family “Outside the Gate” (Rebel)
• Potter’s Field (Instrumental. The title is the name of the place where Judas hanged himself)
  • Butch Robins “Fragments of My Imagicnation” (Rounder)
• Purple Robe
  • The Stanley Brothers “The Early Years 1958-1961, Volume 2” (Starday/King)
  • Ralph Stanley “Let Me Rest” (Rebel)
  • The Lewis Family “Best of…” (Starday)
  • Ralph Stanley and Joe Isaacs “A Gospel Gathering” (Freeland)
  • The Stanley Gospel Tradition (Doobie Shea)
• Remember Me
  • John Bowman “Remember Me” (Mountain Home)
• Remember the Cross
  • Ricky Skaggs “Soldier of the Cross” (Skaggs Family)
  • Ricky Skaggs “Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass” (Skaggs Family)
  • Jamie Harper “Old Pal” (Mountain Fever)
• Shadow of the Cross
  • The Churchmen (single/Mountain Fever)
• She Cries
  • The Isaacs “Increase My Faith” (Horizon)
• Still Driving Nails in the Hands of the Savior
  • Jeff Parker “Two Roads to Travel” (Lonesome Day)
• That Awful Day
  • Larry Sparks “Gonna Be Movin'” (Rebel)
• The Cross on the Right
  • Jerry Salley “Gospel From My Grassroots” (Very Jerry)
• The Day Love Was Nailed to the Tree
  • Cody Shuler “Cody Shuler” (Rural Rhythm)
• The Dream
  • Third Tyme Out “Singing on Streets of Gold” (Chateau Music Group)
• The Last Thing on His Mind
  • Darin and Brooke Aldridge (Mountain Home)
• The Legend of the Dogwood Tree
  • Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper “Walking My Lord Up Calvary’s Hill” (Power Pak/Gusto)
• The Roman Soldier
  • The Spinney Brothers “Memories” (Mountain Fever)
• The Scars in His Hands
  • Mountain Heart “The Journey” (Doobie Shea)
• They Whipped Him Up the Hill
  • New Road “The Message” (New Road)
• Thirty Pieces of Silver
  • Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper “Walking My Lord Up Calvary’s Hill” (Power Pak/Gusto)
  • Adam Steffey “Grateful” (Mountain Home)
• Three Rusty Nails
  • Ronnie Bowman “The Man I’m Tryin’ to Be” (Sugar Hill)
• Tougher Than the Nails
  • Clay Hess (single/Pinecastle)
• Trail of Tears
  • Darin Aldridge and Brooke Justice “I’ll Go With You” (Pinecastle)
• Walking My Lord Up Calvary’s Hill
  • Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper “Walking My Lord Up Calvary’s Hill” (Power Pak/Gusto)
  • Debbie Lee “Jesus Rock My Baby” (Two Rivers Trade Company)
  • Rhonda Vincent “One Step Ahead” (Rounder)
• Were You There (When they Crucified My Lord)
  • Seldom Scene “Baptizing” (Rebel)
  • Front Range “One Beautiful Day” (Sugar Hill)
  • Bill Monroe “1959-1969” (Bear Family)
  • John R. Bowman “Footprints of Faith” (Horizon)
  • Ricky Skaggs “Soldier of the Cross” (Skaggs Family)
• What Will You Do with This Man?
  • Parmley, Vestal and Continental Divide (Pinecastle)
• Your Last Mile
  • Jeannette Williams “Cherry Blossoms in the Springtime” (Doobie Shea)