Debut release on this label, an incredible package of early gospel music, in a deluxe handcrafted wooden box. 5 CDs featuring 135 songs 1902-1960 , 1 CD featuring 25 sermons 1926-1941 . Notes and essays by musicologists and scholars. Contributors include Lynn Abbott, David Evans, Ray Funk, Anthony Heilbut, Kip Lornell, Luigi Monge, Paul Oliver, Opal Louis Nations, Bruce Nemerov, Guido van Rijn, Ken Romanowski, Tony Russell, Doug Seroff, Dick Spottswood, Warren Steel, David Tibet, Gayle Dean Wardlow, and Charles Wolfe. 200 page book with Bible verses, complete lyric transcriptions, and notes for each recording, plus over 200 illustrations. Reverently packed in raw cotton and housed in a deluxe 8 x 11 x 2.5 cedar box. If you re not sure where you ll stand on judgement morning, we have five CDs of guitar evangelists, holiness string bands, jubilee gospel quartets, sacred harp choirs and sanctified jug music to rock your soul plus one CD of shouting sisters and powerful preachers to deliver the message about your starry crown. According to Greil Marcus: The best country-religious music collection I have ever heard.
Disc 1
Track 1 : Goodbye, Babylon - Pt.I - Rev. T.T. Rose and Singers
Track 2 : Are You Washed In the Blood Of the Lamb - Da Costa Woltz s Southern Broadcasters
Track 3 : Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Jesus - Roosevelt Graves And Brother
Track 4 : Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
Track 5 : All I Want Is That Pure Religion - Blind Lemon Jefferson
Track 6 : Satisfied - J.E. Mainer s Mountaineers
Track 7 : As the Life Of a Flower - Chuck Wagon Gang
Track 8 : Thou Carest Lord, For Me - Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers
Track 9 : Lift Him Up That s All - Washington Phillips
Track 10 : Rock My Soul - Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
Track 11 : There s a Light Lit Up In Galilee - Ernest V. Stoneman s Dixie Mountaineers
Track 12 : Crucifixion - Arizona Dranes
Track 13 : Crying Holy Unto the Lord - The Blue Chips
Track 14 : I ll Never Go Back - Louvin Brothers
Track 15 : God s Gonna Separate the Wheat From the Tares - Mahalia Jackson
Track 16 : Blessed Are the Poor In Spirit - Luther Magby
Track 17 : I Belong To the Band - Hallelujah - Rev. Gary Davis
Track 18 : River Of Jordan - Carter Family
Track 19 : Sow Good Seeds - Lil McClintock
Track 20 : I ll Be Satisfied - Bryant s Jubilee Quartet
Track 21 : Troubled Bout My Soul - Frank Palmes
Track 22 : Dry Bones - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Track 23 : Jesus My All - Carlisle Brothers
Track 24 : Creep Along.,Moses - Taskiana Four
Track 25 : Joy Bells - Tennessee Music and Printing Company Quartet
Track 26 : He Gave Me a Heart To Love - Elder David Ross
Track 27 : O Day - Bessie Jones And The Sea Island Singers
Disc 2
Track 1 : There Ain t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down - Brother Claude Ely
Track 2 : Memphis Flu - Elder Curry And Congregation
Track 3 : The Bible s Right - Sister O.M. Terrell
Track 4 : Standing In the Need Of Prayer - Stanley Brothers
Track 5 : The Blood That Stained the Old Rugged Cross - Carl Smith
Track 6 : How About You - Thomas A. Dorsey
Track 7 : Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader - Skip James
Track 8 : Murillo s Lesson - Charles Butts Sacred Harp Singers
Track 9 : Glory Glory Glory Glory To the Lamb - Kentucky Ramblers
Track 10 : Come Over Here - Elder Richard Bryant s Sanctified Singers
Track 11 : I m Gonna Cross the River Of Jordan - Some O These Days - Jaybird Coleman
Track 12 : Milky White Way - Trumpeteers
Track 13 : Deliverance Will Come - Johnson Family Singers
Track 14 : Daniel In the Den Of Lions - North Carolina Cooper Boys
Track 15 : Goin On To Heaven In the Sanctified Way - Sister Cally Faney
Track 16 : No More, My Lord - Jimpson
Track 17 : This World Can t Stand Long - King s Sacred Quartette
Track 18 : God s Getting Worried - Virginia Dandies
Track 19 : Get Right Church - Empire Jubilee Quartet
Track 20 : Move Members Move - Rosie Hibler And Family
Track 21 : Lover Of the Lord - Huggins Phillips Sacred Harp Singers
Track 22 : The Old Ark s A Moving - A.A. Gray and Seven Foot Dilly
Track 23 : On My Way To Heaven - Blind Roger Hays
Track 24 : The Bible s True - Uncle Dave Macon
Track 25 : Ship Of Glory - Prince Family Sacred Singers
Track 26 : Since I Laid My Burden Down - Elders McIntorsh and Edwards
Track 27 : Precious Lord, Hold My Hand - Elder Effie Hall and Congregation
Track 28 : When the Saints Go Marching In - Blind Willie Davis
Track 29 : Jonah, Come Out the Wilderness - Roaring Lion
Disc 3
Track 1 : Down On the Old Camp Ground - Dinwiddie Colored Quartet
Track 2 : My Lord s Gonna Move This Wicked Race - Norfolk Jubilee Quartet
Track 3 : Your Enemy Cannot Harm You But Watch Your Close Friend - Edward W. Clayborn
Track 4 : Ain t Gonna Lay My Armor Down - McVay Johnson
Track 5 : I ll Fly Away - Martha Carson
Track 6 : Heavenly Vision - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
Track 7 : Lord I Just Can t Keep From Crying - Blind Willie Johnson
Track 8 : Lower My Dying Head - The Jubilee Gospel Team
Track 9 : You ve Got To Move - Two Gospel Keys
Track 10 : That Home Above - Flatt And Scruggs
Track 11 : Golden Gate Gospel Train - Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet
Track 12 : I ll Be Rested When the Roll Call Is Called - Roosevelt Graves And Brother
Track 13 : Down On Me - Eddie Head And His Family
Track 14 : Goin To Rest Where Jesus Is - Blind Joe Taggart
Track 15 : Got Heaven In My View - Louis Washington
Track 16 : Judgement - Rev. Sister Mary Nelson
Track 17 : I Want Two Wings To Veil My Face - Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers
Track 18 : We Got the Same Kinda Power Over Here - Rev. D.C. Rice and Sanctified Congregation
Track 19 : What Are They Doing In Heaven Today - Washington Phillips
Track 20 : That Great Day - T.C.I. Women s Four
Track 21 : I m Bound For Home - North Canton Quartet
Track 22 : I Am In the Heavenly Way - Washington White
Track 23 : Over In the Glory Land - Sam Morgan s Jazz Band
Track 24 : Death In the Morning - Rev. Anderson Johnson
Track 25 : In the Land Where, We ll Never Grow Old - Maddox Brothers Rose
Track 26 : Bathe In That Beautiful Pool - Dock Walsh
Track 27 : I ll Have a New Body - Hank Williams and the Drilling Cowboys
Disc 4
Track 1 : Walking My Lord Up Calvary Hill - Stoney Cooper
Track 2 : Christ Arose - Sheffield Quartet
Track 3 : If You See My Saviour - Thomas A. Dorsey
Track 4 : Let Jesus Lead You - The Jubilee Gospel Team
Track 5 : Found a Wonderful Savior - Golden Gae Jubilee Quartet
Track 6 : He Is My Story - Arizona Dranes And Choir
Track 7 : I Remember Calvary - Ernest V. Stoneman His Dixie Mountaineers
Track 8 : Take Your Burden To the Lord And Leave It There - Blind Willie Johnson
Track 9 : If You Follow Jesus - Rev. W. M. Mosley
Track 10 : Hide Me In the Blood Of Jesus - Blind Benny Paris And Wife
Track 11 : I ll Be a Friend To Jesus - Wade Mainer
Track 12 : Standing On the Promises - Tennessee Mountaineers
Track 13 : Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane - Mother McCollum
Track 14 : I ve Got Salvation In My Heart - Stovepipe No.1
Track 15 : I Mean To Live For Jesus - Blind Alfred Reed
Track 16 : When Was Jesus Born? - Heavenly Gospel Singers
Track 17 : Come To the Savior - Blue Sky Boys
Track 18 : I Want Jesus To Walk With Me - Dorothy Melton
Track 19 : He s Coming Soon - Laura Henton
Track 20 : Return Again - OKeh Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers
Track 21 : I Am the True Vine - Rev. Gary Davis
Track 22 : Sweet Story Of Old - Bela Lam and His Greene County Singers
Track 23 : I ll Lead a Christian Life - Elder Golden P. Harris
Track 24 : I m Leaning On the Lord - Famous Blue Jay Singers
Track 25 : Where He Leads Me, I Will Follow - Blind Willie Harris
Track 26 : Jesus Is Getting Us Ready For the Great Day - Luther Magby
Disc 5
Track 1 : Daniel Saw the Stone - Silver Leaf Quartette of Norfolk
Track 2 : Called To the Foreign Field - Alfred G. Karnes
Track 3 : Hallelujah To the Lamb - Ridgel s Fountain Citians
Track 4 : You Need Jesus On Your Side - Deacon A. Wilson
Track 5 : Pace Jubilee Singers - You d Better Mind
Track 6 : J.T. Allison s Sacred Harp Singers - Exhilaration
Track 7 : Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers - If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul
Track 8 : Brown s Ferry Four - Keep on the Firing Line
Track 9 : Bailes Brothers - Romans Ten and Nine
Track 10 : Wade Mainer - Standing Outside
Track 11 : Monroe Brothers - Sinner You Better Get Ready
Track 12 : Blind Willie McTell - I Got to Cross the River of Jordan
Track 13 : Dock Reed and Vera Hall Ward - Free at Last
Track 14 : Bessie Johnson s Sanctified Singers - The Whole World In His Hand
Track 15 : Mahalia Jackson - Amazing Grace
Track 16 : Blind Mamie Forehand - Honey in the Rock
Track 17 : Seventh Day Adventist Choir - On Jordan s Stormy Banks We Stand
Track 18 : Elder J.E. Burch - My Heart Keeps Singing
Track 19 : Joshua White - I Don t Intend to Die in Egyptland
Track 20 : Daniels Deason Sacred Harp Singers - Primrose Hill
Track 21 : Daniels Deason Sacred Harp Singers - Primrose Hill
Track 22 : Mrs. L. Reed Mrs. T.A. Duncans - Light in the Valley
Track 23 : The Georgia Peach - When the Saints Go Marching In
Track 24 : Jimmie Strothers - Down to the Shore
Track 25 : Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Every
Track 26 : Rev. T.T. Rose - Goodbye, Babylon part 2
Disc 6
Track 1 : Rev. J.M. Gates - Gettin Ready For Christmas Day
Track 2 : Rev A.W. Nix - Black Diamond Express to Hell Part 1
Track 3 : Rev A.W. Nix - Black Diamond Express to Hell Part 2
Track 4 : Rev. J.C. Burnett - The Downfall of Nebuchadezzar
Track 5 : Rev. Isaiah Shelton - The Liar
Track 6 : Rev. Emmet Dickinson - Hell and What It Is
Track 7 : Elder J.E. Burch - The Church And the Kingdom
Track 8 : Rev. T.E. Weems - If I Have a Ticket Lord Can I Ride
Track 9 : Rev. Benny Campbell - You Must be Born Again
Track 10 : Rev. E.D. Campbell - Take Me to the Water
Track 11 : Jubilee Gospel Team - Oh, Lord Remember Me
Track 12 : Rev. E.S. Shy Moore - Christ, the Teacher
Track 13 : Rev. Johnny Blakey - King of Kings
Track 14 : Elder Otis Jones - O Lord I m Your Child
Track 15 : Rev. Webb - Moses was Rescued by a Negro Woman
Track 16 : Rev. George Jones - That White Mule of Sin
Track 17 : Deacon Leon Davis - Deacon s Prayer Service
Track 18 : Rev. S.J. Worell - The Prodigal Son
Track 19 : C.H. Gatewood - Well of Salvation
Track 20 : Rev. F.W. McGee - Jonah in the Belly of the Whale
Track 21 : Rev. J.C. Burnett - The Gambler s Doom
Track 22 : Hallelujah Joe - The Prodigal s Return
Track 23 : Rev. T.E. Weems - God is Mad with Man
Track 24 : Rev. J.M. Milton - The Black Camel of Death
Track 25 : Rev. J.M. Gates - Death Might Be Your Santa Claus