Good News: Vintage Negro Spirituals

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 3, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Asv Living Era
• ASIN: B000GYHXKA
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #356,951 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Dere's No Hiding Place Down Dere

2. Ev’Ry Time I Feel De Spirit

3. Lord, I Can’T Stay Away

4. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child

5. Were You There?

6. Blow, Gabriel, Blow

7. Good News, The Chariot’S Coming

8. Rock My Soul

9. Story Of Job

10. Crucifixion (He Never Said A Mumberlin’ Word)

11. Plenty Good Room

12. Recessional (’Roun’ ’Bout De Mountain)

13. Sit Down

14. Steal Away

15. Spiritual Medley: I Got A Robe/Steal Away/Ev’Ry Time I Feel The Spirit

16. I Ain’T A-Gonna Grieve

17. De Blind Man Stood On The Road & Cried

18. Go Down, Moses

19. I’S Me, O Lord, Standin’ In The Need Of Prayer

20. Spiritual Medley: I Will Pray/I Want To Be A Christian/Gwine Ride Up)

See all 31 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

The Good News is that all the Musical Riches of the Negro Spiritual have Now Been Uniquely Summed Up in a Single, Inspirational Sequence on Living Era’s New CD. Here Are all the Most Famous Songs, Rendered by their Greatest Interpreters from the 20s to the 40s. There Are Five Each from Robeson (Deep River . . .), Anderson (Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child . . .) And Hayes (Steal Away . . .), Backed Up by Eight from Other Fine, If Less Well-known, Singers as Well, Like the Delightful Edna Thomas, Aimee Semple Mcpherson And, Notably, John Payne. In Addition There Are Eight Tracks from Such Groups as the Great Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet (Rock My Soul . . .).

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Faithful, April 25, 2008

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Stephanie Bullard "Faithful" (New York, New York) - See all my reviews
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Although the Good News Vintage Negro Spirituals has some of the Legends of Gospel on it , I was disappointed. I thought it would be more down home spirituals not so much of opera sounding format.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Recollections!, May 23, 2007

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Barbara Barr (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Good News: Vintage Negro Spirituals (Audio CD)

All the spiritual songs and music you heard a long time ago. So good to hear them again.