Deep River Boys Lang-Worth Broadcasts: Spirituals CD

The Deep River Boys sang in a wide variety of music styles, including pop, rhythm & blues, show tunes, jazz, blues and rock & roll. Yet if there's one thing the Deep River Boys are remembered for, it's their respect for their musical roots. Like other groups that formed in Black colleges during the 1930s. The Deeps began by singing old African American spirituals. Most genres of American music, including jazz, blues, rhythm & blues and rock & roll trace their roots to spirituals, sung first by slaves in the cotton fields of the American South. Throughout their career, the Deep River Boys continued to preserve the legacy of spirituals in their authentic form and dialect, resisting the temptation to modernize them. The songs on this CD were recorded by the Deep River Boys for the Lang-Worth radio transcription company in the 1940s.

1. I'm Troubled in Mind 2. Tis' the Old Ship of Zion 3. Lord Until I Reach My Home 4. Old Time Religion 5. Who Built the Ark 6. Farewell, Farewell 7. I Know I'd Like to Read 8. The Ol' Sheep Done Know the Road 9. Oh the Rocks and the Mountains 10. A Wheel in a Wheel 11. In the Kingdom 12. Live Humble 13. Ride on Jesus 14. Oh Freedom 15. De Band of Gideon 16. Jerusalem Morn 17. We're Almost Home 18. Oh Wasn't That a Wide River 19. Oh Yes! Oh Yes! 20. Git on Board, Little Children 21. Roll Jordon Roll 22. Somebody Got Lost in the Storm 23. This May Be My Last Time 24. My Way's Cloudy 25. You Better Mind 26. City Called Heaven 27. I Am Seekin' for a City 28. What Kind of Shoes You Gwine to Wear 29. Who'll Jine de Union 30. Sweet Canaan Happy Land 31. I Got a Home in That Rock 32. In Dat Great Gittin' Up Morning 33. They Look Like Men of War 34. Talkin' to de Lord 35. The Lord's Prayer 36. Said He Would Calm the Ocean 37. Let Your Light Shine Round de World 38. Hallelu 39. Roll de Old Chariot Along 40. Good News, Chariots Coming 41. Peter on the Sea 42. I'm A-Rollin' 43. There's a Meeting Here Tonight 44. The Heaven Doors Gwine to Close 45. Walk Together Children 46. Somebody's Knocking at Your Door 47. Where Shall I Be 48. Go Ring Dem Bells 49. Free Grace, I'm New Born Again 50. I Heard the Preaching of the Elders 51. Oh Mary, Don't You Weep 52. My Brethren Don't You Get Weary 53. I Know de Lord, He Laid His Hands on Me 54. Ain't Gwine to Study War No More 55. In Bright Mansions Above