Our goal in this CD was to produce a gentle, instrumental album that you could either sing along with, meditating on the words of these great hymns and songs of faith, or just relax and listen. Either way, we hope you will be blessed and refreshed.Steve and Ruth Smith from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina play a unique blend of Appalachian Americana music featuring hammered dulcimer and guitar.Steve and Ruth's music is regularly heard on XM & Sirius satellite radio, Pandora, Spotify, Highlander Radio Networks, NPR ,and acoustic music format radio stations around the U.S.Steve and Ruth have been featured on the PBS TV series"Song of the Mountains", NPR’s All Songs Considered and Thistle & Shamrock, in Ohio Magazine, and Dulcimer Players News. They were named"Americana Instrumental Group of the Year" at the 2013 Appalachian Cultural Music Association Awards! And, were 2009 Roots Music nominees in the JPF International Music Awards, the world's largest awards for independent musicians."The soul of mountain music and the gentle grace of mountain air."- Ohio Magazine"Absolutely magical..."- Dirty Linen Folk and World Music Magazine