First-Time Buyers Guide To American Negro / Var First-Time Buyers Guide To American Negro / Var CD

This instructive and informative double CD set features a rundown of some of the most significant figures in 20th-century gospel music, including the composer Thomas A. Dorsey, the singer and actor Paul Robeson, and one of the all-time greats of the genre, Mahalia Jackson. Gospel groups include these menial late 19th and early 20th-century Fisk University Jubilee Singers, whose triumphant "Blow, Gabriel Blow" is a highlight, while the Reverend Gary Davis's "Twelve Gates to the City" highlights the long standing connection between gospel music and it's sinful cousin, the blues.

1. Paul Robeson - Witness 2. Dixie Jubilee Singers - Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho 3. Fisk University Jubilee Singers - Blow, Gabriel, Blow 4. Marian Anderson - Deep River 5. Roland Hayes - Go Down Moses 6. Dorothy Maynor - Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 7. Mahalia Jackson - God Shall Wipe All Tears Away 8. Thomas a. Dorsey - If You See My Saviour 9. Rev. Gary Davis - Twelve Gates to the City 10. Charioteers - Wade in the Water 11. Blind Willie Johnson - Let Your Light Shine on Me 12. Ellabelle Davis - I Stood on de Ribber Ob Jerdan 13. New Orleans University Glee Club - Climbing Jacob's Ladder 14. Southern University Quartet - Let the Church Roll on 15. Kenneth Spencer ; Hall Johnson Negro Choir - Old Ship of Zion 16. Roland Hayes - Hear de Lambs a Cryin'; Plenty Good Room 17. Heavenly Gospel Singers - the Prodigal Son 18. Marian Anderson - Crucifixion 19. Rev. A.W. Nix - the Black Diamond Express to Hell 20. Heavenly Gospel Singers - Precious Lord, Take My Hand 21. Jules Bledsoe - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 22. Bessie Smith - Moan, You Moaners 23. Roland Hayes - Lit'l Boy (Christ in the Temple Before the Scribes) 24. Hall Negro Quartet - I've Heard of a City Called Heaven 25. Utica Institute Jubilee Singers - Mary Don't You Weep 26. Paul Robeson - de Ole Ark's a Movering; Ezekiel Saw de Wheel 27. Marian Anderson - My Lord, What a Morning 28. Norfolk Jubilee Quartet - No Hiding Place 29. Selah Jubilee Singers - I Want Jesus to Walk Around My Bedside 30. Sister Cally Fancy - Goin' on to Heaven in the Sanctified Way 31. Dorothy Maynor - Steal Away to Jesus 32. Morris Brown Quartet - de Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried 33. Dixie Jubilee Singers - Send One Angel Down 34. Paul Robeson - Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? 35. Roland Hayes - 'Roun' 'Bout de Mountain 36. Georgia Peach - Do Lord Send Me 37. Rev. J.C. Burnett - True Friendship 38. Bessie Johnson - He Got Better Things for You 39. Washington Phillips - Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There 40. Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There