I Believe in Angels Singing: Songs from the Underground Railroad Era

I Believe in Angels Singing: Songs from the Underground Railroad Era

I Believe in Angels Singing: Songs from the Underground Railroad Era

Track Listings
 
1. Soon I Will Be Done
2. Making Old Songs
3. Wading Deep Waters
4. Go Down Moses
5. The Old Landmark
6. Listen to the Earth
7. Follow the Drinking Gourd
8. Let Jesus Lead You
9. Going Up North
10. Ruben
11. Chilly Waters
12. Go Down Moses
13. Freedom Train
14. Steal Away to Jesus
15. Long Journey Home
16. The Devil He Wore Hypocrite Shoes
17. Nobody Knows the Trouble I Seen
18. Oh May Don't You Weep
19. Steal Away
20. Wade in the Water
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Editorial Reviews
Product Description
I Believe in Angels Singing is an anthology of twenty-five songs remembered from the era of the Underground Railroad, recorded at homes and churches in eastern Ohio and West Virginia during the spring and summer of 1996.

The title, I Believe in Angels Singing, is taken from the words of Neilda Pitts recollecting older people singing as they picked cotton in a large field near her childhood home. Sister Pitt's performance of "Soon I Will Be Done with the Troubles of this World" opens the tape. Other performers include her mother, Bertha Tolliver, along with Ethel Caffie-Austin, John Jackson, Ken Jacobsen, Phil Wiggins, Emma Perry Freeman, Verta Cooper and the Northern Kentucky Brotherhood.

Ethel Caffie-Austin, with her huge and rich voice and free flying piano style, has toured Europe and is know as West Virginia's Queen of Gospel Music. She teaches at the Augusta Heritage Center at Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, WV during the summer. The late John Jackson also toured widely and was renowned for his profound Piedmont Blue style. Here he plays banjo, guitar and sings a song learned from each of his parents.

Phil Wiggins of the internationally known Cephus and Wiggins Piedmont blues performing duo gives us his own original, exquisitely rendered, impassioned mouth harp appeals in pursuit of freedom.

Along with these well-known artists I Believe in Angels Singing gives voice to lesser known artists who sing in local churches. Several of the tracks consist of songs performed by descendents of a community of Virginia slaves given their freedom in the mid-1800s and now settled in the Ohio River Valley.

I Believe in Angels Singing: Songs from the Underground Railroad Era,Michael and Carrie Kline,Unity Productions,Feel this earthy music that carried runaways to freedom, sung richly and from the heart by descendents of slaves
I Believe in Angels Singing: Songs from the Underground Railroad Era
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    I Believe in Angels Singing: Songs from the Underground Railroad Era
    Michael and Carrie Kline
    Manufacturer: Unity Productions
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0007RVHSA
    Release Date: 2004-03-03

    Tracks:

    1. Soon I Will Be Done
    2. Making Old Songs
    3. Wading Deep Waters
    4. Go Down Moses
    5. The Old Landmark
    6. Listen to the Earth
    7. Follow the Drinking Gourd
    8. Let Jesus Lead You
    9. Going Up North
    10. Ruben
    11. Chilly Waters
    12. Go Down Moses
    13. Freedom Train
    14. Steal Away to Jesus
    15. Long Journey Home
    16. The Devil He Wore Hypocrite Shoes
    17. Nobody Knows the Trouble I Seen
    18. Oh May Don't You Weep
    19. Steal Away
    20. Wade in the Water
    21. Auction Block Blues
    22. Climbing Jacob's Ladder
    23. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
    24. I Shall Not Be Moved
    25. Oh Freedom

    Album Description

    I Believe in Angels Singing is an anthology of twenty-five songs remembered from the era of the Underground Railroad, recorded at homes and churches in eastern Ohio and West Virginia during the spring and summer of 1996.

    The title, I Believe in Angels Singing, is taken from the words of Neilda Pitts recollecting older people singing as they picked cotton in a large field near her childhood home. Sister Pitt's performance of "Soon I Will Be Done with the Troubles of this World" opens the tape. Other performers include her mother, Bertha Tolliver, along with Ethel Caffie-Austin, John Jackson, Ken Jacobsen, Phil Wiggins, Emma Perry Freeman, Verta Cooper and the Northern Kentucky Brotherhood.

    Ethel Caffie-Austin, with her huge and rich voice and free flying piano style, has toured Europe and is know as West Virginia's Queen of Gospel Music. She teaches at the Augusta Heritage Center at Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, WV during the summer. The late John Jackson also toured widely and was renowned for his profound Piedmont Blue style. Here he plays banjo, guitar and sings a song learned from each of his parents.

    Phil Wiggins of the internationally known Cephus and Wiggins Piedmont blues performing duo gives us his own original, exquisitely rendered, impassioned mouth harp appeals in pursuit of freedom.

    Along with these well-known artists I Believe in Angels Singing gives voice to lesser known artists who sing in local churches. Several of the tracks consist of songs performed by descendents of a community of Virginia slaves given their freedom in the mid-1800s and now settled in the Ohio River Valley.

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