The Edge Of AmericanaBlack Faith on The Edge of Americana

This week we will explore the African-American religious experience in pre-war music.  Sounds academic don't it!  Well it ain't when you hear it.  This music will MOVE you!  Enjoy Otto

Bela Fleck / Jesus Is The Only Answer / Throw Down Your Heart: Tale From The Acoustic Planet, Volume 3 – Africa Sessions / Othar Turner and The Rising Star Fife and Drum Band / Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! / Everybody Hollerin' Goat Washington Phillips / Denomination Blues, Part One / The Key To The Kingdom / Dranes, Arizona / God's Got A Crown / Complete Recordings / Golden Gate Quartet with Josh White / Run, Sinner, Run / Virginia & The Piedmont-Deep River of Song – The Alan Lomax Collection / Mississippi John Hurt / Do Lord Remember Me / D.C. Blues, The Library of Congress Recordings, Volume 1 / Joseph Spence / I'll Be A Friend To Jesus / Living On The Hallelujah Side / Mother McCollum / Jesus Is My Air-O-Plane / Goodbye, Babylon – Salvation / Blind Willie Johnson / Lord I Just Can't Keep from Crying / Goodbye, Babylon – Judgment / Mississippi Fred McDowell / Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning / Sounds of the South – Blue Ridge Mountain Music / Skip James / Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader / Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come / The Phillips Wonders / Walking Along The Heavenly Road / I Am A Poor Pilgrim Of Sorrow / Art of Field Recording, Volume 1 – Religious / Henry Morrison and St. Simon's Island Singers / I'm Gonna Sail Like A Ship On The Ocean / Sounds of the South – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals / Bessie Jones / O Day / Southern Journey, Volume 1: Voices from the American South / Reverend R. C. Crenshaw and Congregation / I Love The Lord / Sounds of the South – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals / Sam Collins / I Want To Be Like Jesus In My Heart / How Can I Keep From Singing, Volume 2: Early American Religious Music and Song / Thomas A. Dorsey / If You See My Savior / Goodbye, Babylon – Salvation / Brother George and His Sanctified Singers / Done What My Lord Said / Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Volume B (1941) / Blind Willie Johnson / It's Nobody's Fault But Mine / Before The Blues: Early American Black Music Scene, Volume 2 / Blind Willie McTell / I Got To Cross The River Jordan / Deep River of Song: Georgia / James Shorty and Mississippi Fred McDowell / I Want Jesus To Walk With Me / Sounds of the South – Negro Church Music & White Spirituals / Viola James and Congregatio / Is There Anybody Here That Love My Jesus / Sounds of the South – Blue Ridge Mountain Music / Dock Reed and Vera Hall Ward / Free At Last / Goodbye, Babylon – Goodbye, Babylon / Sue Thomas / Hold My Hand, Lord Jesus / Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still: The Warner Collection, Volume 1 / Washington Phillips / Denomination Blues Pt. Two / The Key To The Kingdom / Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers / Thou Carest Lord / How Can I Keep From Singing, Volume 2: Early American Religious Music and Song / Washington Phillips / Honey In The Rock / The Key To The Kingdom / Dranes, Arizona / I'm Glad My Lord Has Saved Me / Complete Recordings / Joseph Spence / The Lord Is My Shepherd / The Complete Folkways Recordings: 1958 / Reverend Gary Davis / Jesus Met The Woman At The Well / Reverend Gary Davis – 1952 Wire Recordings From The Collection of John Cohen / Field Recorders' Collective Brother George and His Sanctified Singers / I Want To See Jesus / Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Volume B, 1941 / Luther Magby / Jesus Is Getting Us Ready For The Great Day / Goodbye, Babylon – Salvation / Silver Leaf Quartet / Witness for My Lord / Southern Journey, Volume 8: Velvet Voices / Memphis Sanctified Singers / Memphis Sanctified Singers / He's Got Better Things For You / How Can I Keep From Singing, Volume 1 / Roosevelt Graves and Brother / Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind On Jesus) / Goodbye, Babylon – Introduction / Blind Willie Harris / Where He Leads Me I Will Follow / Goodbye, Babylon – Salvation /