Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
Album · Christian · 2013
home or spirituals sung in church. Recorded on relatively modern equipment by David Evans and others between 1965 and 1973, the theme on these tracks is church-going folks making music at home in the rural South. Not surprisingly, some results have a laidback family sing-along feel (“You Don’t Know What the Lord Has Done for Me,” “You Got to Give an Account," and the stunning “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say”). There's also some amazing unaccompanied solo singing (“By the Grace of God,” “Talk About a Child”). When there's an instrument, it’s usually a solo acoustic blues-based guitar; highlights include bluesmen Furry Lewis singing “Glory, Glory Hallelujah" and particularly Robert Nighthawk, who makes two spine-chilling appearances that reaffirm his legend as an important but criminally under-recorded figure in the blues canon. Hopefully this is the first in a new series, because the quality of the material certainly merits it.
Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
home or spirituals sung in church. Recorded on relatively modern equipment by David Evans and others between 1965 and 1973, the theme on these tracks is church-going folks making music at home in the rural South. Not surprisingly, some results have a laidback family sing-along feel (“You Don’t Know What the Lord Has Done for Me,” “You Got to Give an Account," and the stunning “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say”). There's also some amazing unaccompanied solo singing (“By the Grace of God,” “Talk About a Child”). When there's an instrument, it’s usually a solo acoustic blues-based guitar; highlights include bluesmen Furry Lewis singing “Glory, Glory Hallelujah" and particularly Robert Nighthawk, who makes two spine-chilling appearances that reaffirm his legend as an important but criminally under-recorded figure in the blues canon. Hopefully this is the first in a new series, because the quality of the material certainly merits it.
