The Half Ain’t Never Been Told, Vol. 1: Early Rural American Religious Music, Classic Recordings from the 1920s and ’30s / Yazoo CD-2049

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Yazoo CD 2049 / 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. ALFRED G. KARNES, I Am Bound For The Promised Land

2. FA SOL LA SINGERS, Happy On The Way

3. VIRGINIA DANDIES, There’s A Beautiful City Called Heaven

4. ROOSEVELT GRAVES & BROTHER, I’ll Be Rested

5. HENDERSONVILLE DOUBLE QUARTET, I Want My Life to Testify

6. WASHINGTON PHILLIPS, A Mother’s Last Word To Her Daughter

7. UNCLE DAVE MACON & HIS FRUIT JAR DRINKERS, Shall We Gather At The River

8. ALABAMA SACRED HARP SINGERS, Religion Is A Fortune

9. REV. H. B. JACKSON, He’s The One

10. ERNEST PHIPPS & HIS HOLINESS SINGERS , I Know That Jesus Set Me Free

11. MRS. L. REED & MRS. T. A. DUNCAN , Don’t Make It Too Late

12. PACE JUBILEE SINGERS, Certainly Lord

13. JONES BROTHERS TRIO, I’m Gonna Sail Away

14. ELDER CURRY AND CONGREGATION, The Good Lord Has Set Me Free

15. LUBBOCK TEXAS QUARTET, Turn Away

16. KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN CHORUSTERS, We’ll Understand It Better Bye And Bye

17. PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHOIR OF NORTH CAROLINA , Blessed Be The Tie That Binds

18. BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON, Let Your Light Shine On Me

19. BYRANT’S JUBILLE QUARTETTE, I’ll Be Satisfied

20. GOLDEN P. HARRIS, I’ll Lead A Christian Life

21. REV. B. J. HILL, Lower My Dying Head

22. LEE WELLS & HIS JASPER, ALABAMA SACRED HARP SINGERS, The Christian’s Fight

23. REV. WM. MCKINLEY DAWKINS, Is Not this The Land Of Beulah

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Weight 0.35 lbs