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This CD features classic performances by GOODBYE BABYLON.
Debut release on this label, an incredible package of early gospel music, in a deluxe handcrafted wooden box designed by Susan Archie, who was previously responsible for the Grammy winning Charley Patton boxset on Revenant . 5 CDs featuring 135 songs 1902 1960 , 1 CD featuring 25 sermons 1926 1941 . Notes and essays by musicologists and scholars. Contributors include Lynn Abbott, David Evans, Ray Funk, Anthony Heilbut, Kip Lornell, Luigi Monge, Paul Oliver, Opal Louis Nations, Bruce Nemerov, Guido van Rijn, Ken Romanowski, Tony Russell, Doug Seroff, Dick Spottswood, Warren Steel, David Tibet, Gayle Dean Wardlow, and Charles Wolfe. 200 page book with Bible verses, complete lyric transcriptions, and notes for each recording, plus over 200 illustrations. Reverently packed in raw cotton and housed in a deluxe 8 x 11 x 2.5 cedar box. If youre not sure where youll stand on judgement morning, we have five CDs of guitar evangelists, holiness string bands, jubilee gospel quartets, sacred harp choirs and sanctified jug music to rock your soul plus one CD of shouting sisters and powerful preachers to deliver the message about your starry crown. According to Greil Marcus The best country religious music collection I have ever heard.
This item includes the following tracks:

1. Rev T T Rose Goodbye, Babylon
2. Da Costa Woltzs Southern Broadcasters Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb
3. Roosevelt Graves and Brother Woke up this Morning with My Mind on Jesus
4. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers Present Joys
5. Blind Lemon Jefferson All I Need is that Pure Religion
6. JE Mainer Satisfied
7. Chuck Wagon Gang As the Life of a Flower
8. Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers Thou Carest Lord, for Me
9. Washington Phillips Lift Him up Thats All
10. Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet Rock My Soul
11. Ernest V Stoneman Theres a Light Lit up in Galilee
12. Arizona Dranes Crucifixion
13. The Blue Chips Crying Holy unto the Lord
14. Louvin Brothers Ill Never Go Back
15. Mahalia Jackson Gods Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares
16. Luther Magby Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
17. Blind Gary Davis I Belong to the Band Hallelujah
18. Carter Family River of Jordan
19. Lil McClintock Sow Good Seeds
20. Bryants Jubilee Quartet Ill Be Satisfied
21. Frank Palmes Troubled Bout My Soul
22. Bascom Lamar Lunsford Dry Bones
23. Carlisle Brothers Jesus My All
24. Taskiana Four Creep Along, Moses
25. Tennessee Music and Printing Company Quartet Joy Bells
26. Elder David Ross He Gave Me a Heart to Love
27. Bessie Jones and the Sea Island Singers O Day
28. Brother Claude Ely There Aint No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down
29. Elder Curry and His Congregation Memphis Flu
30. Sister O M Terrell The Bibles Right
31. Stanley Brothers Standing in the Need of Prayer
32. Carl Smith with the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle Blood That Stained the Old Rugged Cross
33. Thomas A Dorsey How About You
34. Skip James Jesus is a Mighty Good Leader
35. Charles Butts Sacred Harp Singers Murillos Lesson
36. Kentucky Ramblers Glory Glory Glory Glory to the Lamb
37. Elder Richard Bryant Come Over Here
38. Jaybird Coleman Im Gonna Cross the River of Jordan
39. Trumpeteers Milky White Way
40. Johnson Family Singers Deliverance will Come
41. North Carolina Cooper Boys Daniel in the Den of Lions
42. Sister Cally Fancy Goin to Heaven in the Sanctified Way
43. Jimpson No More, My Lord
44. Kings Sacred Quartet This World Cant Stand Long
45. Virginia Dandies Gods Getting Worried
46. Empire Jubilee Quartet Get Right Church
47. Rosie Hibler and Family Move, Members, Move
48. Huggins Phillips Sacred Harp Singers Lover of the Lord
49. A A Gray and Seven Foot Dilly The Old Arks A Moving
50. Blind Roger Hay On My Way To Heaven
51. Uncle Dave Macon The Bibles True
52. Price Family Sacred Singers Ship of Glory
53. Elders McIntorsh & Edwards He Gave Me a Heart to Love
54. Elder Effie Hall and Congregation O Day
55. Blind Willie Davis When the Saints Go Marching In
56. Lion and the Cyril Monrose String Orchestra Jonah, Come out the Wilderness
57. Dinwiddie Colored Quartet Down on the Old Camp Ground
58. Norfolk Jubilee Quartet My Lords Gonna Move this Wicked Race
59. Edward W Clayborn Your Enemy Cannot Harm You But Watch Your Close Friend
60. McVay and Johnson Aint Going To Lay My Armor Down
61. James and Martha Carson Ill Fly Away
62. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers Heavenly Vision
63. Blind Willie Johnson Lord I Just Cant Keep From Crying
64. Jubilee Gospel Team Lower My Dying Head
65. Two Gospel Keys Youve Got to Move
66. Flatt and Scruggs That Home Above
67. Golden Gate Quartet Golden Gate Gospel Train
68. Roosevelt Graves and Brother Ill Be Rested When the Roll is Called
69. Eddie Head and His Family Down on Me
70. Blind Joe Taggart Goin to Rest Where Jesus Is
71. Louis Washington Got Heaven in My View
72. Rev Sister Mary Nelson Judgment
73. Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers I Want Two Wings to Veil My Face
74. Rev D C Rice We Got the Same Kinda Power over Here
75. Washington Phillips What are They Doing in Heaven Today
76. T C I Womens Four That Great Day
77. North Canton Quartet Im Bound for Home
78. Washington White I am in the Heavenly Way
79. Sam Morgans Jazz Band Over in Gloryland
80. Rev Anderson Johnson Death in the Morning
81. Maddox Brothers & Rose In the Land Where Well Never Grow Old
82. Dock Walsh Bathe in that Beautiful Pool
83. Hank Williams Ill Have a New Body
84. Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper Walking My Lord Up Calvarys Hill
85. Sheffield Quartet Christ Arose
86. Thomas A Dorsey If You See My Savior
87. Jubilee Gospel Team Let Jesus Lead You
88. Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet Found a Wonderful Savior
89. Arizona Dranes and Choir He is My Story
90. Ernest V Stoneman and His Dixie Mountaineers I Remember Calvary
91. Blind Willie Johnson Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There
92. Rev W M Mosley If You Follow Jesus
93. Blind Benny Paris & Wife Hide Me in the Blood of Jesus
94. Wade Mainer Ill be a Friend to Jesus
95. Tennessee Mountaineers Standing on the Promises
96. Mother McCollum Jesus is My Aeroplane
97. Sam Jones Ive Got Salvation
98. Blind Alfred Reed I Mean to Live for Jesus
99. Heavenly Gospel Singers When Was Jesus Born
100. Blue Sky Boys Come to the Savior
101. Dorothy Melton I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
102. Laura Henton Hes Coming Soon
103. Okeh Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers Return Again
104. Blind Gary Davis I am the True Vine
105. Bela Lam and His Greene County Singers Sweet Story of Old
106. Elder Harris Ill Lead a Christian Life
107. Famous Blue Jay Singers Im Leaning on the Lord
108. Blind Willie Harris Where He Leads Me I Will Follow
109. Luther Magby Jesus is Getting us Ready
110. Silver Leaf Quartette Daniel Saw the Stone
111. Alfred Karnes Called to the Foreign Field
112. Ridgels Fountain Citians Hallelujah to the Lamb
113. Deacon A Wilson You Need Jesus on Your Side
114. Pace Jubilee Singers Youd Better Mind
115. J T Allisons Sacred Harp Singers Exhilaration
116. Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul
117. Browns Ferry Four Keep on the Firing Line
118. Bailes Brothers Romans Ten and Nine
119. Wade Mainer Standing Outside
120. Monroe Brothers Sinner You Better Get Ready
121. Blind Willie McTell I Got to Cross the River of Jordan
122. Dock Reed and Vera Hall Ward Free at Last
123. Bessie Johnsons Sanctified Singers The Whole World In His Hand
124. Mahalia Jackson Amazing Grace
125. Blind Mamie Forehand Honey in the Rock
126. Seventh Day Adventist Choir On Jordans Stormy Banks We Stand
127. Elder J E Burch My Heart Keeps Singing
128. Joshua White I Dont Intend to Die in Egyptland
129. Daniels Deason Sacred Harp Singers Primrose Hill
130. Daniels Deason Sacred Harp Singers Primrose Hill
131. Mrs L Reed & Mrs T A Duncans Light in the Valley
132. The Georgia Peach When the Saints Go Marching In
133. Jimmie Strothers Down to the Shore
134. Sister Rosetta Tharpe Strange Things Happening Every
135. Rev T T Rose Goodbye, Babylon part 2
136. Rev J M Gates Gettin Ready For Christmas Day
137. Rev A W Nix Black Diamond Express to Hell Part 1
138. Rev A W Nix Black Diamond Express to Hell Part 2
139. Rev J C Burnett The Downfall of Nebuchadezzar
140. Rev Isaiah Shelton The Liar
141. Rev Emmet Dickinson Hell and What It Is
142. Elder J E Burch The Church And the Kingdom
143. Rev T E Weems If I Have a Ticket Lord Can I Ride
144. Rev Benny Campbell You Must be Born Again
145. Rev E D Campbell Take Me to the Water
146. Jubilee Gospel Team Oh, Lord Remember Me
147. Rev E S Shy Moore Christ, the Teacher
148. Rev Johnny Blakey King of Kings
149. Elder Otis Jones O Lord Im Your Child
150. Rev Webb Moses was Rescued by a Negro Woman
151. Rev George Jones That White Mule of Sin
152. Deacon Leon Davis Deacons Prayer Service
153. Rev S J Worell The Prodigal Son
154. C H Gatewood Well of Salvation
155. Rev F W McGee Jonah in the Belly of the Whale
156. Rev J C Burnett The Gamblers Doom
157. Hallelujah Joe The Prodigals Return
158. Rev T E Weems God is Mad with Man
159. Rev J M Milton The Black Camel of Death
160. Rev J M Gates Death Might Be Your Santa Claus