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WORK & PRAY: HISTORIC NEGRO SPIRITUALS AND WORK SONGS FROM WEST VIRGINIA
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Various artists
WORK & PRAY: HISTORIC NEGRO SPIRITUALS AND WORK SONGS FROM WEST VIRGINIA
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38 field recordings from 1949-1953. Railroad work chants, ancient spirituals, hammer songs, slave-era songs, more. "A collection as rich, varied, and powerful as the African-American experience in Appalachia."
WVU-CD04 ..
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$13.95
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Contents:
- Lining Track (Clarence Harmon)
- Lining Track (Albert McCoy)
- Laying Steel ( Albert McCoy)
- Ten Pound Hammer (Albert McCoy)
- Steal Away (Memphis T. Garrison)
- Shout Yo' Double Shout (Memphis T. Garrison)
- I Didn't Know I Had to Pray So Hard (Blanche Simmons)
- Jacob's Ladder (Waldo Dickason)
- Palms of Victory (Waldo Dickason)
- Way Over in the Promised Land (Waldo Dickason)
- Drinking the Wine (Waldo Dickason)
- John Henry (Susan White)
- This Old Hammer (Nelson Harmon
- Section Boss (Nelson Harmon)
- This Old Hammer (P.R. Higginbotham)
- Railroad Graders (Henry L. Dickason)
- Ride to Heaven (Henry L. Dickason)
- Away in the Kingdom (Henry L. Dickason)
- We're Baptized in the Water (Henry L. Dickason)
- When the Roll Is Called (Henry L. Dickason)
- Won't You Go with Me (John Wade)
- Go Home to My Father and Be Saved (John Wade)
- Good Old Chariot (Mrs. John Wade)
- Lord I Don't Want to Die in the Storm (Frank Wade)
- Ride On Jesus (R.L. Pollard)
- Rock Me Chariot (R.L. Pollard)
- Lord I Won't Stop Praying (R.L. Pollard)
- Prepare Me O Lord (unknown)
- God Got His Eyes on You (Bell Edward Pate)
- John the Revelator (Joe Perkins)
- Lining Track (Joe Perkins)
- Lining Track (Charles L. Holland)
- I Wish I Had-a Heard Them (Charles L. Holland)
- (narration)(Esther Johnson)
- In That Morning (Esther Johnson)
- Some Bright Day (Esther Johnson)
- Shoeshine Boy (unknown)
- We Are Travleing to the Grave (unknown)
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