Ep 1: The Glenn Summerford Case: "The Snake Beat"

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Alabama Astronaut

Abe Partridge & Ferrill Gibbs

13 episodes

4 months ago

Alabama Astronaut is a podcast featuring Alabama songwriter & artist Abe Partridge. Abe discovers a set of undocumented songs in the hills of the Appalachians, and believes they are undocumented because of the subject matter: lyrics that speak of the consumption of poison, and the handling of venomous snakes. These are the songs of the serpent handlers. To capture their music, Abe must first capture the hearts and the minds of the people who wrote it...and in the process, they capture his.

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Ep 1: The Glenn Summerford Case: "The Snake Beat"

Alabama Astronaut

42 minutes

5 months ago

Ep 1: The Glenn Summerford Case: "The Snake Beat"

In Anniston, an Alabama newspaper attributes a mystery felony to serpent handling preacher, Glenn Summerford.

This claim initiates a new quest for podcasters Abe Partridge and Ferrill Gibbs, who are tipped off about this article by Andrew Hamblin, serpent handling preacher from Gray, KY.

For months, Ferrill and Abe dig into this claim. In the process, they discover parts of the Summerford story do not jibe with the media coverage over the years.

Coloring the way Abe views journalists on the Snake Beat is the media's treatment of Andrew and Taylor Hamblin. One night, they let down their guard for the two podcasters, and, in a rousing display of trust and acceptance, play Ferrill and Abe an incredible version of the faith's most powerful worship song, Little David Play On Your Harp. It happens late one night, capping an incredible overnight recording session.