Walking Rhythm

Pilgrim Travelers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 11, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Specialty
• ASIN: B000000QN4
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #294,593 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. What Are They Doing (My Lord) [take 2][#]

2. Stretch Out [take 1][#]

3. My Prayer

4. Good News

5. Dig a Little Deeper [take 1][#]

6. Everybody's Gonna Have a Wonderful Time up There (Gospel Boogie) [take

7. Nothing Can Change Me (Since I Found the Lord)

8. Jesus [take 3][#]

9. Thank You Jesus

10. What a Friend We Have in Jesus [take 2][#]

11. It's a Blessing

12. Not a One [#]

13. He's Pleading in Glory [take 1][#]

14. Jesus Gave Me Water

15. Jesus, He's the One

16. King Jesus Will Roll All Burdens Away [take 2][#]

17. My Eternal Home

18. Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour [2][#]

19. Footprints of Jesus [take 3][#]

20. When I Join the Jubilee

See all 29 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING!!, July 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Walking Rhythm (Audio CD)

This CD will certainly make you feel the power of the Holy Ghost. The Pilgrim Travelers songs are so annointed, they sing with such power and conviction on every track. "King Jesus Will Roll All Burdens Away" is so touching along with "Angels Tell Mother" thats a sure house wrecker....if I could I'd give this 10 stars!!!!

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fine Compilation From One of the Greatest Groups of Gospel's Golden Age, March 23, 2010

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Gregory M. Wasson (Pinole, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Walking Rhythm (Audio CD)

This CD compilation from legendary Speciality Records is almost as good as the wonderful "Best of the Pilgrim Travelers" on the same label. The title "Walkin' Rhythm" refers to the distinctive mid-tempo groove that became a Pilgrim Travelers trademark. With Keith Barber and Kylo Turner trading leads, the group used close and nuanced harmonies and a distinctive lower timbre (more suitable to Turner's baritone voice) to produce a sound that was a bit "smoother" than the "wreck the house" sanctified shouting that made the Soul Stirrers with R.H. Harris (later replaced by Sam Cooke) the kings of hard gospel in the late 40's and '50's. Make no mistake, the Pilgrims could "lay them out" in the aisles with hard-driving "shouters" like "Pass Me Not, Gentle Saviour," then bring tears to every eye with a "weeper" like "Angels Tell Mother." But whether they were wrecking the house, or eliciting shouted affirmations as the bass line "walked" the rhythm with a repeated phrase during a "mother" song, the Pilgrim Travelers never failed to swing, just like the best jazz, pop, hip-hop, or 60's soul. Great musicians always swing, no matter the genre, and the Travelers were among the best.

This compilation is taken from 1947-51, when the group was at its height. Like other "hard gospel" groups of the Golden Age (the Soul Stirrers, Dixie Hummingbirds, Sensational Nightingales, Swan Silvertones, and more), the Pilgrim Travelers sang virtually a capella during this period, using only an occasional guitar to support their voices. As is said about classical string quartets, in small group a capella gospel "there is no place to hide." For the Pilgrim Travelers, there was no need to hide- their voices said it all.

This is great, solid, hard-driving gospel at its best. It is a shame the audience for it is relatively small. Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Johnny Taylor, Lou Rawls, and Wilson Picket all started out in well-known gospel groups, and it shows in their singing. No matter your religious beliefs or lack of them, this is great music that will leave you feeling better for having listened to it.

Highly recommended.

5.0 out of 5 stars WANT TO KNOW WHAT REAL GOSPEL IS ALL ABOUT???...START HERE!!!, December 15, 2009

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Mr. Nightshift (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Walking Rhythm (Audio CD)

The sound quality is close to excellent! (Especially by them being recorded from 1948 to 1950!). There are 28 (Twenty-Eight) Gospel Gems and Jewels from one of most talked about Gospel Groups of the Post War Era! Although they recorded for several labels after they left Speacialty records this is THE REAL THING! ALL of the recordings here are sung in Pure Acceppella, not just your standard or typical Accepella, but done with FEELING!