The Best of the Pilgrim Travelers, Vol. 1-2

Pilgrim Travelers

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 17, 1991)
• Original Release Date: 1990
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Specialty
• ASIN: B000000QOC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #160,044 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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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

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

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

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

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...