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Spreading the Word: Early Gospel Recordings
Spreading the Word: Early Gospel Recordings
UPC: 788065721428
Format: CD (4 disc)
Release Date: Jun 21, 2019
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Yet another of JSP's exhaustive budget-priced box sets of public domain recordings, Spreading the Word: Early Gospel Recordings provides just what the title promises, 105 tracks' worth of traditional African-American gospel recordings from 1926 to 1950. Listeners who know their history will already be familiar with some of the material here, such as the complete 16-song oeuvre of the Dallas-based blind mestiza singer/pianist Arizona Dranes that opens the first of these four discs, but much of this material will be new to all but the most devoted collectors of the style. Rarities like Luther Magby's strangely jaunty organ showcase "Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit," the Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers' "Jesus Throwed Up a Highway for Me" (a song that '70s AM radio enthusiasts will note sounds startlingly similar to Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime"), and Sister Mary M. Nelson's scarifying "The Royal Telephone" sound great next to more familiar songs like Washington Phillips' idiosyncratic country blues-derived two-part single "Denomination Blues." The liner notes are sketchy, understandably so given the casual circumstances under which many of these songs were no doubt recorded, and it must be said that even a decent remastering job can't do much when your source material is coming from rapidly deteriorating 78s, but Spreading the Word: Early Gospel Recordings is of interest to musical and spiritual historians alike. ~ Stewart Mason
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - In That Day
2 - It's All Right Now
3 - John Said He Saw a Number
4 - My Soul Is a Witness for the Lord
5 - Crucifixion
6 - Sweet Heaven Is My Home
7 - Bye and Bye We're Going to See the King
8 - I'm Going Home on the Morning Train
9 - Lambs Blood Has Washed Me Clean
10 - I'm Glad My Lord Saved Me With
11 - I Shall Wear a Crown
12 - God's Got a Crown
13 - He Is My Story
14 - Just Look
15 - I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go
16 - Don't You Want to Go
17 - Royal Telephone
18 - Judgement
19 - Seal of God
20 - Isaiah
21 - Thou Carest Lord for Me
22 - Jesus Throwed Up a Highway for Me
23 - Sinner, I'd Make a Change
24 - When I Get Inside the Gate
25 - God Give Me a Light
26 - So Glad I'm Here
Disc 2:
1 - Mother's Last Words to Her Son
2 - Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There
3 - Paul and Silas in Jail
4 - Lift Him Up That's All
5 - Denomination Blues: One
6 - Denomination Blues: Two
7 - I Am Born to Preach the Gospel
8 - Train Your Child
9 - Jesus Is My Friend
10 - What are They Doing in Heaven Today?
11 - Mother's Last Words to Her Daughter
12 - I've Got the Key to the Kingdom
13 - You Can't Stop a Tattler: 1
14 - You Can't Stop a Tattler: 2
15 - I Had a Good Father and Mother
17 - No Room at the Hotel
18 - Key to the Kingdom
19 - One Day
20 - Whole World in His Hand
21 - Great Reaping Day
22 - He Got Better Things for You
23 - He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
24 - I Will Meet You at the Station
25 - He's the Lily of the Valley
26 - He's Coming Soon
Disc 3:
1 - Master Came and Called Me
2 - Saul, A Wicked Man
3 - Come Over Here
4 - How Much I Owe for Love Divine
5 - Lord, Lord, He Sure Is Good to Me
6 - Watch Ye Therefore,You Know Not the Day
7 - Lie Was Told But God Know'd It
8 - Wild Man in Town
9 - He Shut the Lion's Mouth
10 - Everybody Was There
11 - Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
12 - Jesus Is Getting Us Ready for the Great Day
13 - King of Kings
14 - Jesus Was Here on Business
15 - Warming by the Devil's Fire
16 - Devil Is Loose in the World
17 - Soon We'll Gather at the River
18 - Where He Leads Me I Will Follow
19 - Where Shall I Be
20 - Give Me That Old Time Religion
21 - Angels
22 - Standing in the Safety Zone
23 - When I Move to the Sky
24 - Nobody's Fault But Mine
25 - Christ, the Teacher
26 - Solemn Warning
Disc 4:
1 - What Kind of Man Jesus Is
2 - Since I Laid My Burden Down
3 - 1927 Flood
4 - Latter Rain Is Fall
5 - Take a Stand
6 - Behold! A King Shall Rise
7 - Earth Is No Resting Place
8 - Crucifixion of Christ
9 - God Rode in the Windstorm
10 - [Untitled]
11 - This World Is Not My Home
12 - Sunshine in the Shadows
13 - I'm Going to Lift Up a Standard for My King
14 - Traveling
15 - Great Judgement Day
16 - Oh Lord, How Long?
17 - There's a Hand Leading Me
18 - I'm Going to Hold On
19 - Truth in the Gospel
20 - He's Coming Soon
21 - Heavenly Sunshine
22 - Lord, You've Sure Been Good to Me
23 - I Can Tell the World About This
24 - Plenty Good Room in My Father's Kingdom
25 - Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
26 - Let Us Therefore Come
27 - Lord Who Shall Abide in Thy Tabernacle
1 - In That Day
2 - It's All Right Now
3 - John Said He Saw a Number
4 - My Soul Is a Witness for the Lord
5 - Crucifixion
6 - Sweet Heaven Is My Home
7 - Bye and Bye We're Going to See the King
8 - I'm Going Home on the Morning Train
9 - Lambs Blood Has Washed Me Clean
10 - I'm Glad My Lord Saved Me With
11 - I Shall Wear a Crown
12 - God's Got a Crown
13 - He Is My Story
14 - Just Look
15 - I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go
16 - Don't You Want to Go
17 - Royal Telephone
18 - Judgement
19 - Seal of God
20 - Isaiah
21 - Thou Carest Lord for Me
22 - Jesus Throwed Up a Highway for Me
23 - Sinner, I'd Make a Change
24 - When I Get Inside the Gate
25 - God Give Me a Light
26 - So Glad I'm Here
Disc 2:
1 - Mother's Last Words to Her Son
2 - Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There
3 - Paul and Silas in Jail
4 - Lift Him Up That's All
5 - Denomination Blues: One
6 - Denomination Blues: Two
7 - I Am Born to Preach the Gospel
8 - Train Your Child
9 - Jesus Is My Friend
10 - What are They Doing in Heaven Today?
11 - Mother's Last Words to Her Daughter
12 - I've Got the Key to the Kingdom
13 - You Can't Stop a Tattler: 1
14 - You Can't Stop a Tattler: 2
15 - I Had a Good Father and Mother
17 - No Room at the Hotel
18 - Key to the Kingdom
19 - One Day
20 - Whole World in His Hand
21 - Great Reaping Day
22 - He Got Better Things for You
23 - He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
24 - I Will Meet You at the Station
25 - He's the Lily of the Valley
26 - He's Coming Soon
Disc 3:
1 - Master Came and Called Me
2 - Saul, A Wicked Man
3 - Come Over Here
4 - How Much I Owe for Love Divine
5 - Lord, Lord, He Sure Is Good to Me
6 - Watch Ye Therefore,You Know Not the Day
7 - Lie Was Told But God Know'd It
8 - Wild Man in Town
9 - He Shut the Lion's Mouth
10 - Everybody Was There
11 - Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
12 - Jesus Is Getting Us Ready for the Great Day
13 - King of Kings
14 - Jesus Was Here on Business
15 - Warming by the Devil's Fire
16 - Devil Is Loose in the World
17 - Soon We'll Gather at the River
18 - Where He Leads Me I Will Follow
19 - Where Shall I Be
20 - Give Me That Old Time Religion
21 - Angels
22 - Standing in the Safety Zone
23 - When I Move to the Sky
24 - Nobody's Fault But Mine
25 - Christ, the Teacher
26 - Solemn Warning
Disc 4:
1 - What Kind of Man Jesus Is
2 - Since I Laid My Burden Down
3 - 1927 Flood
4 - Latter Rain Is Fall
5 - Take a Stand
6 - Behold! A King Shall Rise
7 - Earth Is No Resting Place
8 - Crucifixion of Christ
9 - God Rode in the Windstorm
10 - [Untitled]
11 - This World Is Not My Home
12 - Sunshine in the Shadows
13 - I'm Going to Lift Up a Standard for My King
14 - Traveling
15 - Great Judgement Day
16 - Oh Lord, How Long?
17 - There's a Hand Leading Me
18 - I'm Going to Hold On
19 - Truth in the Gospel
20 - He's Coming Soon
21 - Heavenly Sunshine
22 - Lord, You've Sure Been Good to Me
23 - I Can Tell the World About This
24 - Plenty Good Room in My Father's Kingdom
25 - Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
26 - Let Us Therefore Come
27 - Lord Who Shall Abide in Thy Tabernacle