Moving Star Hall Singers: Been in the Storm So Long - Spirituals & Shouts
Moving Star Hall Singers: Been in the Storm So Long - Spirituals & Shouts
Format: CD
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Artist: Moving Star Hall Singers
Label: Folkways Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093070384224
Genre: Spoken, African
This recording was made over a period of two years to accompany a folk life study of the southern rural African-American community of Johns Island off the coast of South Carolina. Producer Guy Carawan documents the "rich oral tradition of folk expression" of Moving Star Hall, a central gathering place for community members to express themselves through sermon, song, testimony and prayer evocative of the oldest forms of African American folk life and slave culture. 17 songs, 43 minutes, with liner notes by Guy Carawan featuring excerpts from his book, Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? : The People of Johns Island, South Carolina-Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs, song lyrics and pictures.
Tracks:
1.1 Talking 'Bout a Good Time
1.2 That's All Right
1.3 Jesus Knows All About My Troubles
1.4 Talk: Esau Jenkins
1.5 Lay Down Body
1.6 I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table / Our Father: Prayer (Medley)
1.7 Been in the Storm So Long
1.8 Down on Me
1.9 Reborn, Reborn Again
1.10 Row, Michael, Row
1.11 Johnny Cuckoo
1.12 Old Lady Come from Booster
1.13 Shoo Turkey
1.14 Mr. Postman Die
1.15 Water My Flowers
1.16 The Rabbit and the Partridge
1.17 Jack and Mary and the Devil
