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Genre: Country, Blues, and Folk Our first half-century of recorded spiritual music on six discs: sermons, quartets, shape-note singing, blues wails, hillbilly plaints, the whole kit-and-kaboodle. Committed and lively enough to convert Christopher Hitchens. Ideal for an American studies or classical ideas project. |
Dates: 1890s-1940s |
Playlist:
DISC 1:
1. Goodbye,
2. Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb - Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters
3. Woke Up This Morning (With My
Mind on Jesus) - Blind
4. Present Joys -
5. All I Want Is That Pure Religion
- Blind Lemon
6. Satisfied - J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers
7. As the Life of a Flower - Chuck Wagon Gang
8. Thou Carest Lord, For Me - Rosie Hibler
9. Lift Him Up That's All - Blind Benny Paris and Wife
10. Rock My Soul -
11. There's a Light Lit Up in
Galilee - Ernest V. Stoneman & His
12. Crucifixion - J.T. Allison Sacred Harp Singers
13. Crying Holy Unto the Lord - The Blue Chips
14. I'll Never Go Back - The Louvin Brothers
15. God's Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares - Huggins & Phillips Sacred Harp Singers
16. Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit - Luther Magby
17. I Belong to the Band - Hallelujah! - Rev. Gary Davis
18.
19. Sow Good Seeds - Lil McClintock
20. I'll Be Satisfied - Bryant's Jubilee Quartet
21. Troubled 'Bout My Soul - Frank Palmes
22. Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
23. Jesus My All - Rev. E.D. Campbell
24. Creep Along, Moses - Taskiana Four
25. Joy Bells -
26. He Gave Me a Heart to Love - Rev. T.T. Rose
27. O Day - Reverend Anderson
Johnson/Scruggs/Bessie Jones & The
DISC 2:
1. There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down - Eldeen McIntosh
2.
3. Bible's Right, The -
4. Standing in the Need of Prayer -
The
5. Blood That Stained the Old Rugged Cross, The - Carl Smith
6. How About You - Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey
7. Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader - Skip James
8. Murillo's Lesson - Charles Butts Sacred Harp Singers
9. Glory Glory Glory Glory to the
Lamb -
10. Come Over Here - Elder Richard Bryant Sanctified Singers
11. I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan - Some O' These Days - Reverend Edward W. Clayborn
12. Milky
13. Deliverance Will Come - Johnson Family Singers
14. Daniel in the Den of Lions -
15. Goin' on to Heaven in the Sanctified Way - Cally Fancy
16. No More, My Lord - Blind Lemon
17. This World Can't Stand Long - King's Sacred Quartette
18. God's Getting Worried -
19.
20. Move Members Move - Laura Henton
21. Lover of the Lord - Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers
22. Old
23. On My Way to Heaven - Golden P. Harris
24. Bible's True, The - Uncle Dave Macon
25. Ship of Glory - Price Family Sacred Singers
26. Since I Laid My Burden Down - Elder McIntorsh/Elder Edwards
27. Precious Lord, Hold My Hand - Elder Effie Hall
28. When the Saints Go Marching In - Blind Willie Davis
29. Jonah, Come Out the Wilderness - Cyril Monrose/Ridgel's Fountain Citians/Roaring Lion
DISC 3:
1. Down on the Old
2. My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race - Rev. A.W. Nix
3. Your Enemy Cannot Harm You (But Watch Your Close Friend) - Reverend Edward W. Clayborn
4. Ain't Gonna Lay My Armor Down - McVay/Jimpson/McVay & Johnson
5. I'll Fly Away - James Carson/Martha Carson/James Carson
6. Heavenly Vision -
7. Lord I Just Can't Keep from Crying - Bessie Johnson Sanctified Singers
8. Lower My Dying Head - Rev. George and Congregation Jones
9. You've Got to Move - Trumpetters
10. That Home Above - Sancrified Congregation/Cally Fancy/Foggy Mountain Boys/Flatt & Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys
11. Golden Gate Gospel Train -
12. I'll Be Rested (When the Roll Is Called) - Blind Roosevelt Graves
13. Down on Me - Blind Roger Hays
14. Goin' to Rest Where Jesus Is - T.C.I. Women's Four
15. Got Heaven in My View - Louis Washington
16. Judgment - Rev. Sister Mary M. Nelson
17. I Want Two Wings to Veil My
Face -
18. We Got the Same Kinda Power Over Here - David Ross/Rev. D.C. Rice
19. What Are They Doing in Heaven Today - George Washington Phillips
20. That Great Day - T.C.I. Women's Four
21. I'm Bound for Home - North Canton Quartet
22. I Am in the Heavenly Way -
23. Over in the
24. Death in the Morning - Reverend Anderson Johnson
25. In the Land Where We'll Never Grow Old - The Maddox Brothers & Rose
26. Bathe in That Beautiful Pool - Chuck Wagon Gang
27. I'll Have a New Body - The Drifting Cowboys/Hank Williams
DISC 4:
1. Walking My Lord Up Calvary Hill
- Bela Lam and His Greene Country Singers/Ernest V. Stoneman & His
2. Christ Arose -
3. If You See My Saviour - Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey
4. Let Jesus Lead You - Jubilee
Gospel Team & Deep River
5. Found a Wonderful Savior -
6. He Is My Story -
7. I Remember
8. Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There - Blind Willie Johnson
9. If You Follow Jesus - Rev. W.M. Mosley
10. Hide Me in the Blood of Jesus - Blind Benny Paris and Wife
11. I'll Be a Friend to Jesus - Wade Mainer
12. Standing on the Promises - Taskiana Four
13. Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane - Rev. W.M. Mosley
14. I've Got Salvation in My Heart - Stovepipe No. 1
15. I Mean to Live for Jesus - Price Family Sacred Singers
16. When Was Jesus Born? - The Heavenly Gospel Singers
17. Come to the Savior - The Blue Sky Boys
18. I Want Jesus to Walk With Me - Dorothy Melton
19. He's Coming Soon - Laura Henton
20. Return Again -
21. I Am the True Vine - Rev. Gary Davis
22. Sweet Story of Old - King's Sacred Quartette
23. I'll Lead a Christian Life - Blind Willie Harris
24. I'm Leaning on the Lord - Empire Jubilee Quartet
25. Where He Leads Me I Will Follow - Hallelujah Joe
26. Jesus Is Getting Us Ready for the Great Day - Luther Magby
DISC 5:
1. Daniel Saw the Stone - Rev. Isaiah Shelton
2. Called to the Foreign Field - Alfred G. Karnes
3. Hallelujah to the Lamb - Ridgel's Fountain Citians
4. You Need Jesus on Your Side - Deacon A. Wilson
5. You'd Better Mind - Pace Jubilee Singers
6. Exhilaration - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
7. If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul - Ernest Phipps & His Holiness Singers
8. Keep on the Firing Line - Brown's Ferry Four
9. Romans Ten and Nine - The Bailes Brothers
10. Standing Outside - Wade Mainer
11. Sinner You Better Get Ready -
The
12. I Got to Cross the
13. Free at Last - Dock Reed/Elder Effie Hall/Vera Hall-Ward
14. Whole World in His Hands, The - Bessie Johnson Sanctified Singers
15. Amazing Grace - Mahalia Jackson
16. Honey in the Rock - Rev. Johnnie Blakey
17. On
18. My Heart Keeps Singing - Elder J.E. Burch
19. I Don't Intend to Die in Egyptland - Joshua White
20. Primrose Hill -
21. Keep on the Sunny Side - The Carter Family
22. Light in the Valley - Mrs. T.A. Duncans/Mrs. L. Reed/Mrs. T.A. Duncans
23. When the Saints Go Marching In - H.C. "D.D.I.M.R.A." Gatewood
24. We Are Almost Down to the Shore - Jimmie Strothers
25. Strange Things Happening Every Day - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
26. Goodbye,
DISC 6:
1. Gettin' Ready for Christmas Day - Reverend J.M. Gates
2. Black Diamond Express to Hell, Pt.I - Rev. A.W. Nix
3. Black Diamond Express to Hell, Pt. II - Rev. A.W. Nix
4. Downfall of Nebuchadnezzar, The - Elder J.E. Burch
5. Liar, The -
6. Hell and What It Is - Rev. Emmett Dickinson
7. Church and the Kingdom, The - Elder J.E. Burch
8. If I Have a Ticket Lord Can I Ride? - Louis Washington
9. You Must Be Born Again - Charles Butts Sacred Harp Singers
10. Take Me to the Water - Rev. E.D. Campbell
11. Oh Lord, Remember Me - Jubilee
Gospel Team & Deep River
12. Christ, The Teacher - Cyril String Orchestra Monrose
13. King of Kings - Rev. Johnny Blakey
14. O Lord I'm Your Child - Elder Otis Jones
15. Moses Was Rescued by a Negro Woman - Reverend Webb
16. That White Mule of Sin - Rev. George Jones and Congregation
17. Deacon's Prayer Services - Deacon Leon Davis
18. Prodigal Son, The - Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters
19. Well of Salvation - M.L. (Reverend) Gipson & His Sanctified Congregation
20. Jonah in the Belly of the Whale - Rev. F.W. McGee
21. Gambler's Doom, The - Rev. J.C. Burnett
22. Prodigal's Return, The (The Things I USTA Do I Don't Do No More) - Hallelujah Joe
23. God Is Mad With Man - Rev. T.E. Weems
24. Black Camel of Death, The - Rev. J.M. Milton
25. Death Might Be Your Santa Claus - Reverend J.M. Gates