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Various - Angola Prison Spirtuals
Styles: Work Songs, Gospel
Label: Arhoolie
Released: 2003
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 172,3 MB
Time: 75:15
Art: full
1. I'm On My Way
Andy Mosely- vocal; Robert Pete Williams- guitar
2. Church On Fire With The Word Of God
Robert Pete Williams- vocal & guitar
3. What Shall I Do
Robert 'Guitar' Welch- vocal & guitar
4. Brother Norah
Angola Quartet: Willy Rafus- lead vocal, with Edward James, Ollie Brown & Burnel Jones
5. Little School Song
Tom Dutson- vocal; Robert Pete Williams- guitar
6. Dyin' Soul
Robert Pete Williams- vocal & guitar
7. Let My People Go
Roosevelt Charles- vocal
8. So Much Is Happenin' In The News
Robert Pete Williams- vocal & guitar
9. Dig My Grave With A Silver Spade
om Dutson- vocal; Robert Pete Williams- guitar
10. Brother Mosely Crossed The Water
Andy Mosely- vocal & washboard; 'Hogman' Maxey- guitar
11. I'm Stranded On The Banks Of Ole Jordan
Angola Quartet # 2: Willy Joe- lead, with Roosevelt Charles, Edward James & Willie McGee
12. I'm Goin' Back With Him When He Comes
Robert Pete Williams- vocal & guitar
13. The Old Ship Of Zion
Rev. Benjamin E. Osborne with congregation
14. When I Lay My Burden Down
Robert Pete Williams- vocal & guitar
15. See How They Done My Lord
Angola Quartet (six) from Camp A
16. Be With Me Jesus
Angola Quartet (six) from Camp A
17. Rise And Fly
Angola Vocal Group- unidentified lead singers
18. I Know I Got Religion
Andy Mosely- vocal & washboard; 'Hogman' Maxey- guitar
19. Jesus
Andy Mosely- vocal & washboard; 'Hogman' Maxey- guitar
20. I Take Jesus (Do Lord, Remember Me)
Angola Choir (Murray Ted Macon- director)
21. Each Day (Life's Evening Sun)
Angola Choir (Murray Ted Macon- director)
22. Steal Away To Jesus
Angola Choir (Murray Ted Macon- director)
Notes: The power of African American prison spirituals is without equal. If it were not for the work of a few intrepid ethnomusicologists these songs would have vanished from the collective memory of American music. Fortunately Dr. Harry Oster travelled through Louisiana in the early 1960's and recorded this music before it vanished from the tradition. Most of these tracks were released in the 1960's on LP. Now, for the first time, they are available on CD with 9 tracks that have never been commercially available. The legendary singer and guitarist Robert Pete Williams is heard on several of these raw and emotive cuts.
Originally released on LP on the Folk-Lyric label, Angola Prison Spirituals was recorded in the late '50s by the renowned folklorist and song collector Dr. Harry Oster. The first 13 cuts come from that glorious album, and for the CD reissue, Chris Strachwitz has added nine more tracks -- two from their excellent Robert Pete Williams volumes and seven more that have never been issued in any form before, all of which were recorded by Oster. Prisoners in the Angola Penitentiary recorded virtually everything here. Williams is most notable for his career after prison, but his songs here are far different from his other blues music: the disregard he has for traditional song form and its meter and rhyme lends an eerie, very present quality to the spirits evoked in his texts. Elsewhere, the chants by the Angola Vocal Group give rise to the notion that the songs considered to be traditional African-American spirituals are also constructs put on the culture by whites. Tom Dutson and Williams perform together on "Brother Norah," with its deep, ancient roots in otherworldly harmonies, and "Dyin' Soul" is spookier and more mournful than anything that most would recognize as arising from the spiritual canon. But it is on "Rise and Fly" by the Angola Vocal Group that listeners can hear the timelessness of the blues and the primitive, pre-Thomas Dorsey gospel music that sounds as if it came from field hollers more than the church pew. There isn't any music anywhere more powerful than this. There isn't any music closer to tearing the veil that separates the worlds of spirit and flesh; there isn't any music that echoes the beat of the human heart, the fear and hope in its soul, or the passion in the grain of its voice like this music does. There isn't any music like this anywhere.
Thom Jurek, Allmusic
Angola Prison Spirtuals
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