The Half Ain’t Never Been Told, Vol. 2: Early Rural American Religious Music, Classic Recordings from the 1920s and ’30s / Yazoo CD-2050

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Yazoo CD 2050 / A powerful and deeply moving overview of Early American religious music and song from the white and black rural countryside. Highlights the fascinating panorama of American religious music styles from archaic fundamentalist modal hymns, gospel quartets, Pentecostal bands, songsters accompanying themselves on guitars, banjos, and fiddles, to snippets of Church services including some preaching, and much, much more.

1.MIDDLE GEORGIA SINGING CONVENTION NO. 1,  I Am Going Home

2.VIRGINIA DANDIES, God’s Getting Worried

3.BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON, It’s Nobody’s fault But Mine

4. WASHINGTON PHILLIPS, Mother’s Last Word To her Son

5. BIDDLEVILLE QUINTETTE, Coming to Christ

6. HENDERSONVILLE QUARTET, Take Time To Be Holy

7. KENTUCKY RAMBLERS, Glory Glory Glory Glory

8. MEGGINSON FEMALE QUARTETTE, Oh What A Change Took Place In My Heart

9. MCGHEE & COGAR, Leaning On The Everlasting Arms

10. CHARLIE PATTON, Prayer of Death – Pt. 1

11. ALLISON’S SACRED HARP SINGERS, Journey Home

12. BLIND JOE TAGGART, Been Listening All The Day

13. CAROLINA GOSPEL SINGERS, Beyond The River

14. CLEVE CHAFFIN & THE MCCLUNG BROTHERS, Babylon Is Fallen Down

15. BASCOM LAMAR LUNSFORD, Dry Bones

16. ELDER OTIS JONES, O Lord I’m Your Child

17. HEAVENLY GOSPEL SINGERS, Have You Got Good Religion

18. HOWARD HANEY, If Jesus Leads This Army

19. REV. J.M. GATES & HIS CONGREGATION, Baptize Me

20. PRICE FAMILY SACRED SINGERS, We Are Jouneying On

21. UTICA INSTITUTE JUBILEE SINGERS, Leaning On The Lord

22. BLIND JOE & JAMES TAGGART, The Half Ain’t Never Been Told

23. DIXIE SACRED TRIO, Don’t You Want To Go