Fisk Jubilee Singers In Bright Mansions CD

Nine very courageous and gifted young Americans who in 1871, six years after the civil war, set off from Nashville, Tennessee, not to cross the Rockies or sail round the Horn, but to save a failing university that meant everything to them. They were the Jubilee Singers from Fisk University heading north on a first tour. All but two were former slaves, several were still in their teens. They had no money, no reputation, no experience performing on the road, with the ridicule and menace they faced, because of their color, were all too real in a land where, by then, everybody supposedly had equal rights.

1. I'm Gonna Sing Till the Spirit Moves 2. Poor Man Lazrus 3. Down By the Riverside 4. Lord, I'm Out Here on Your Word 5. De Gospel Train 6. Were You There? 7. Rockin' Jerusalem 8. Nobody Knows the Trouble I See 9. I've Been in the Storm 10. Soon-Ah Will Be Done 11. He's Got the Whole World in His Hands 12. Hold on! 13. There Is a Balm in Gilead 14. Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord 15. Wade in the Water 16. Ride on, Jesus 17. I Got a Home In-A Dat Rock 18. In Bright Mansions