Music from the South, Vol. 6: Elder Songsters, 1
Various Artists
Of Elder Songsters 1 & 2, Frederic Ramsey, Jr. writes, "The mothers, fathers, grandmothers, and grandfathers [have] kept the music alive and burning in the home. There are ways of singing hymns and other songs that are peculiar to the family unit, and to [the] everyday environment... It is this everyday environment...that we have sought to capture in these two volumes."
Track Listing
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101
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I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say | Suddie Griffins | 4:32 | |
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102
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Go Preach My Gospel | Suddie Griffins | 5:14 | |
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103
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Most Done Traveling - Rocky Road | Emmett Brand | 1:46 | |
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104
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Give Me That Old Time Religion | Emmett Brand | 1:42 | |
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105
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Take This Hammer | Emmett Brand | 0:45 | |
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106
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My Old Mother | Emmett Brand | 2:00 | |
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107
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Stay, John, Don't You Ride No More | Emmett Brand | 1:02 | |
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108
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The Chickens and Crows | Emmett Brand | 0:34 | |
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109
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I'm Going to Cross the Rivers of Jordan, Some of These Days | Emmett Brand | 1:52 | |
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201
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Riding My Buggy, My Whip in My Hand: Two Fragments | Emmett Brand | 0:59 | |
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202
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Singing on the Old Church Ground | Emmett Brand | 1:01 | |
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203
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Baby Cryin' | Emmett Brand | 0:42 | |
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204
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I'm So Glad That I Am Free: Excerpt | Wilson Boling | 1:37 | |
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205
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We Have Mothers Over Yonder | Wilson Boling | 3:24 | |
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206
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Come to Jesus | Wilson Boling and Verna Ford | 2:05 | |
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207
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O Baptise Me John in the River of Jordan | Bessie Ford, Horace and Annie Sprott, and Nellie Hastings | 1:21 | |
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208
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Just Over in the Glory Land | Bessie Ford, Horace and Annie Sprott, and Nellie Hastings | 3:51 | |
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209
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Father, I Stretch My Hands to Thee | Jake Field, Eastman Brand, and Arthur Holifield | 2:45 | |
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210
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Down Here Lord, Waitin' on You | Jake Field, Eastman Brand, and Arthur Holifield | 2:09 |
Album Info
Folkways Suggests
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Bernice Reagon; Folk Songs: The SouthBernice Johnson Reagon
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Some of Us Had to LiveMichael Cohen
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When the Spirit Says SingSandy and Caroline Paton
