The fieldwork for this album sought to explore sources that would lead listeners back to the decades between the emancipation of the slaves in 1863 and 1900. The collector, Frederick Ramsey, Jr.., endeavored to find old artists who had not yet been recorded, and with the single exception of Elder David Ross of New Orleans, he succeeded.
7 Conversation Preaching Tonight on the Old Camp Ground
8 My Baby Gone and She Won't Be Back No More
9 Fare You Well Daddy, It's Your Time Now
10 Sing on
11 Dixie
12 Going Up the Country, Don't You Want to Go
13 I Shall Not Be Moved
14 The Ship Is Over the Ocean
15 Mama, Don't You Tear My Clothes
16 Nearer My God to Thee
17 Like My Lord
18 I'm All Right Now Since I've Been Converted
19 Just Over in the Gloryland
20 When I Lay My Burden Down
The fieldwork for this album sought to explore sources that would lead listeners back to the decades between the emancipation of the slaves in 1863 and 1900. The collector, Frederick Ramsey, Jr.., endeavored to find old artists who had not yet been recorded, and with the single exception of Elder David Ross of New Orleans, he succeeded.