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Pilgrim Travelers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 17, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Specialty
• ASIN: B000000QOC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,486 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Was There When the Spirit Came

2. Blessed Be the Name

3. Standing on the Highway

4. Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb

5. I've Got a Mother Gone Home

6. Jesus, I'm Thankful

7. Straight Street

8. Mother Bowed

9. The Old Rugged Cross

10. Something Within Me

11. A Soldier's Plea

12. Satisfied With Jesus

13. My Old Home

14. Jesus Met the Woman at the Well

15. What a Blessing in Jesus I've Found

16. I Want My Crown

17. God Shall Wipe All Tears Away

18. Weary Traveler

19. I'll Tell It

20. He Will Remember Me

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

23 Specialty sides from one of the most urbane gospel groups, later home to Lou Rawls! Includes Standing on the Highway; Mother Bowed; Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb; I Was There When the Spirit Came , and more.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the classic Gospel Quartets, March 2, 2006

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Hank n Tennessee (Virginia, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

Bill Worthington was a coal miner from eastern Kentucky who also sang with a gospel quartet. He tells the story of the time his group got to play on a program headlined by the great Pilgrim Travelers. Bill's group were local favorites and got to go on next to last, just before the Travelers. They were rehearsed, ready and looking good and played a strong set, confident that they could show the famous Pilgrim Travelers something. They closed with an original, their signature song, to thunderous applause from the local audience. Then the Pilgrim Travelers took the stage. They came out singing Bill's original song, doing it Bill's way - word for word, note for note, harmony for harmony. Then at the turn-around after the first verse, they shifted gears and sang the same verse again, this time rocking it Pilgrim Traveler's style. The audience went wild and the mighty Pilgrim Traveler's soared on from there.

Studio CD's can't capture the magic of nights like that, but there is some fine music here. Take "Something Within Me", which the Travelers make into an exercise in gradually building intensity over repetition, sort of the way Ravel did with his "Bolero". The bass is a constantly repeated lower register chant at a walking tempo "Oh my, lordy lord. Oh my, lordy lord." Switching leads pick up the intensity from a mellow beginning until the turn-around before the last verse reaches a crescendo of chord voicings climbing the scale, each louder and higher then before, climaxing when that bass chant sweeps up a full octave for the last verse and a scorching new lead (Kylo Turner? Keith Barber?) sails in at full roar. It's a moment that will bring you out of your chair with the hair on the back of your neck standing up. Awesome stuff.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Full of Spirit!!!!, August 10, 2000

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D. Newkirk (Magnolia, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

This is one of my favorite cds by the Pilgrim Travelers, I've always loved their music, their style and their annointing. Their songs are so full of the Holy Ghost, I can't sit still while listening to it...

5.0 out of 5 stars Old time gospels, January 11, 2012

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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

I love this type of music. My mother use to play these records when I was young and I'm glad they are now on CD. I have almost collected most of the music she played. I still have a few more to get. I need the Staple singer singing John Brown, the Swan Silvertones with I remember and Oh Mary don't you weep and Sam Cooke sing Oh Mary don't you weep and a few more.