This four-CD set of 19th- and 20th-century African American sacred music was initially released as a companion to the 1995 Peabody Award-winning radio series of the same name produced by National Public Radio and the Smithsonian Institution. With extensive notes by Bernice Johnson Reason, who conceived and compiled the series, these recordings honor the rich sacred music tradition created and sustained within the African American community, from which so much contemporary American music draws its inspiration.
There Is a Balm in Gilead
We Shall Walk Through the
Roll Jordan Roll
I’ve Been Buked & I’ve Be
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Joshua Fit de Battle
Wade in the Water
Deep River
Listen to the Lamb
Everytime I Feel the Spir
Oh Freedom
Gospel Train
I’m a Rolling Through An
Sometimes I Feel Like a M
Steal Away
Go to the Wilderness
Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
Ain’t Got Time to Die
Wade in the Water
Sign of the Judgement
Lay Down Body
Lay Down Body
Run Mary Run You Got a Ri
One Morning Soon
I Wanna Go Where Jesus Is
You Better Run to the Cit
I Heard the Voice of Jesu
Give Me Jesus
I Am a Soldier in the Arm
Am I a Soldier of the Cro
Early My God Without Dela
Come & Go to That Land
Glory Glory Hallelujah Si
Charge to Keep I Have
Traditional Prayer with M
Sit Down Servant
Stand By Me
We’ll Understand It Bette
What Are They Doing in He
Something Within
He’ll Understand & Say We
Touch Me Lord Jesus
I’ts a Highway to Heaven
Little Wooden Church on a
I Was Standing By the Bed
How I Got Over
Speak to Me Jesus
Does Jesus Care
Just a Closer Walk with T
God Is Still on the Thron
God Specializes
Precious Lord
Jesus Is on the Mainline
Ye That Without Sin Cast
Nobody Knows the Trouble
Charge to Keep I Have
There’ll Be Singing Over
Nearer My God to Thee
Put Your Trust in Jesus
Who’ll Be a Witness
Lead Me Guide Me
God Is So Good to Me
Couldn’t Hear Nobody Pray
Peace in the Valley
Hold to God’s Unchanging
Let All the People Praise
Yes Lord