A compilation of spiritual arrangements that mirrors the history of African-Americans in the United States during the slavery period through the Reconstruction, the Jim Crow period through the civil rights struggle. These songs were used to signal travel on the Underground Railroad, encourage the human spirit and to protest injustice.
Most of the arrangements are by Moses Hogan, but Bay Area spirituals experts Jacqueline Hairston and William Bell are also represented.
Track Listing
- Lord I Want To Be A Christian, 2mn 51s
- Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel, 2mn 56s *
- Ezekial Saw de Wheel, 3mn 10s *
- Ain't That Good News, 2mn 13s *
- His Name So Sweet, 2mn
- Freedom Train, 1mn 36s
- Steal Away, 4mn 51s
- Soon and Very Soon, 1mn 28s
- Deep River, 2mn 47s
- Do Lord, Remember Me , 3mn 8s
- Great Day, 2mn 8s
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Chile, 2mn 24s
- Nobody Know the Trouble I've Seen, 3mn 7s
- Abide With Me , 3mn 39s
- Elijah Rock OM, 3mn 27s
- I'm Gonna Sing 'til the Spirit Moves in My Heart, 2mn 23s
- The Battle of Jericho, 2mn 22s
- Down By the Riverside , 2mn 38s
- Who Is Dat-A-Yonder, 2mn 38s
- Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit, 2mn 44s
- Amazing Grace (sing-along), 1mn 48s *
- Behold the Star, 3mn 46s *
- Mary Had a Baby, 3mn 4s *
* Recorded at the Oakland Museum
