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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
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 .. CD .. $13.95

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Contents:
  1. Lining Track (Clarence Harmon)
  2. Lining Track (Albert McCoy)
  3. Laying Steel ( Albert McCoy)
  4. Ten Pound Hammer (Albert McCoy)
  5. Steal Away (Memphis T. Garrison)
  6. Shout Yo' Double Shout (Memphis T. Garrison)
  7. I Didn't Know I Had to Pray So Hard (Blanche Simmons)
  8. Jacob's Ladder (Waldo Dickason)
  9. Palms of Victory (Waldo Dickason)
  10. Way Over in the Promised Land (Waldo Dickason)
  11. Drinking the Wine (Waldo Dickason)
  12. John Henry (Susan White)
  13. This Old Hammer (Nelson Harmon
  14. Section Boss (Nelson Harmon)
  15. This Old Hammer (P.R. Higginbotham)
  16. Railroad Graders (Henry L. Dickason)
  17. Ride to Heaven (Henry L. Dickason)
  18. Away in the Kingdom (Henry L. Dickason)
  19. We're Baptized in the Water (Henry L. Dickason)
  20. When the Roll Is Called (Henry L. Dickason)
  21. Won't You Go with Me (John Wade)
  22. Go Home to My Father and Be Saved (John Wade)
  23. Good Old Chariot (Mrs. John Wade)
  24. Lord I Don't Want to Die in the Storm (Frank Wade)
  25. Ride On Jesus (R.L. Pollard)
  26. Rock Me Chariot (R.L. Pollard)
  27. Lord I Won't Stop Praying (R.L. Pollard)
  28. Prepare Me O Lord (unknown)
  29. God Got His Eyes on You (Bell Edward Pate)
  30. John the Revelator (Joe Perkins)
  31. Lining Track (Joe Perkins)
  32. Lining Track (Charles L. Holland)
  33. I Wish I Had-a Heard Them (Charles L. Holland)
  34. (narration)(Esther Johnson)
  35. In That Morning (Esther Johnson)
  36. Some Bright Day (Esther Johnson)
  37. Shoeshine Boy (unknown)
  38. We Are Travleing to the Grave (unknown)

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