December 24, 2024

Songs of the Old Regular Baptists

mithsonian Folkways - SFW CD 50001
Lined-out Hymnody from Southeastern Kentucky Vol. 2

Format: CD, Compilation
Country: United States
Released: 2003
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, & Sacred
[Tracklist]
01 Sweet Glories Rush Upon My Sight (04:36)
02 Amazing Grace (02:39)
03 I Long to See the Seasons Come (04:17)
04 Precious Memories (05:31)
05 Streets of Gold (03:19)
06 Attend Young Friend (06:32)
07 O! When Shall I See Jesus (04:34)
08 Jesus Grant Us All a Blessing (05:17)
09 Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone (04:05)
10 The Lord Will Make A Way (06:01)
11 A Poor Wayfaring Stranger (07:55)
12 Interview: Don Pratt (00:30)
13 Interview: Toby Breeding (00:36)
14 Interview: Jim Fields (00:20)
15 Interview: Johnnie Fields (00:09)
16 Interview: Squire Watts (00:07)
17 Interview: Elwood Cornett (00:10)
18 Interview: Paul Sparkman (00:07)
19 Interview: Harve Creech (00:24)
20 Interview: Ruth Frazier (00:10)
21 Interview: Kathy Cornett (00:12)
22 Interview: Grethel Fields (00:10)
23 Interview: Emory Caudill (00:06)
24 Interview: James Caudill (00:11)
25 Interview: John Wallhausser (00:17)
26 Interview: Jeff Titton (00:31)
27 Interview: Elwood Cornett (00:32)
[Credits]
Producer, Recorder, Field Worker, Liner Notes: Jeff Todd Titon, Photographer: Elwood Cornett, Designer: Caroline Brownell
[Notes]
The oldest English-language religious music in oral tradition in North America, the lined-out, congregational hymnody of the Old Regular Baptists is heard in the heart of the coal-mining country of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. In this rare, beautiful, and heartfelt music lie the roots of the high, lonesome mountain sound of elaborate melodic turns and graces. Produced in collaboration with the Indian Bottom Association of Old Regular Baptists, this is the second of two Smithsonian Folkways albums devoted to their music; the first was SFW CD 40106.

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