Title: Sacred Harp & Shape Note Singing / Various
Artist: Various Artists
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065717520
Genre: Blues
Release Date: 2014-07-22
Additional Details: BOXED SET

The Sacred Harp singing style is unique to America, treasured today both for it's hauntingly attractive harmonies and it's links to a seemingly lost rural past. Evolving from church singing-school organizations of the 18th century, it was and remains a community movement, with all-day singing conventions as much a social as a musical gathering, these days concentrated mainly in the Deep South. The main source for material is still B. F. White & E. J. King's 'The Sacred Harp' - first published in 1844. The term 'shape note' comes from the book's system of musical notation - symbols being used rather than the more familiar 'staff' method. Here, from it's heartlands of Georgia and Alabama - but also from locations as far-flung as New York and Indiana, is a singular music for too long thrust to the sidelines.

Tracks:
1.1 Amazing Grace - Dye's Sacred Harp Singers
1.2 How Firm a Foundation - Dye's Sacred Harp Singers
1.3 Soar Away - Denson Quartet
1.4 Sabbath Morning - Denson Quartet
1.5 Rejoicing on the Way - Fa Sol la Singers
1.6 Jesus Walks with Me - Fa Sol la Singers
1.7 Happy on the Way - Fa Sol la Singers
1.8 Weeping Mary - Roswell Sacred Harp Quartet
1.9 Odem - Roswell Sacred Harp Quartet
1.10 Bound for Canaan - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.11 Antioch - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.12 Sweet Prospect - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.13 The Old Ship of Zion - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.14 Sweet Canaan - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.15 Exhilaration - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.16 Long Sought Home - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.17 Weeping Pilgrim - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.18 The Loved Ones - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.19 My God the Spring of All My Joys - Elder Golden P Harris
1.20 My Christian Friends in Bonds of Love - Elder Golden P Harris
1.21 Rocky Road - Alabama Sacred Heart Singers
1.22 Present Joys - Alabama Sacred Heart Singers
1.23 Religion Is a Fortune - Alabama Sacred Heart Singers
1.24 Cuba - Alabama Sacred Heart Singers
1.25 The Happy Sailor - Denson's Sacred Heart Singers of Arley, Alabama
1.26 Protection - Denson's Sacred Heart Singers of Arley, Alabama
1.27 Ninety Fifth - Denson's Sacred Heart Singers of Arley, Alabama
1.28 The Christian Hope - Denson's Sacred Heart Singers of Arley, Alabama
1.29 Bells of Love - Middle Georgia Singing Convention No
1.30 Walking with My King - Middle Georgia Singing Convention No
1.31 Return Again - Okehatlanta Sacred Harp Singers
1.32 Penick - Okeh-Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers
1.33 Edom - Okeh-Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers
1.34 Parting Hand - Okeh-Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers
1.35 Blooming Youth - Huggins ; Philips Sacred Harp Singers
1.36 Lovers of the Lord - Huggins ; Philips Sacred Harp Singers
1.37 The Christian's Flight - Lee Wells ; His Jasper Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
1.38 North Port - Lee Wells ; His Jasper Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
1.39 The Promised Land - Pioneer Sacred Harp Singers
1.40 Raymond - Pioneer Sacred Harp Singers
1.41 The Heavenly Port - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.42 Hallelujah - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.43 The Golden Harp - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.44 Heaven's My Home - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.45 I'm a Long Time Travelling Away from Home - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.46 I Belong to This Band - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.47 Sharpsburg - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.48 Murillo's Lesson - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.49 Jewett - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.50 Pisgah - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.51 Primrose Hill - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.52 Weeping Mary - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.53 Penick - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.54 Sweet Morning - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.55 Esther - Allison's Sacred Harp Singers
1.56 Pryel's Hymn - Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers
1.57 Hallelujah - Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers
1.58 Primrose Hill - Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers
1.59 Coronation - Daniels-Deason Sacred Harp Singers
1.60 Jubilee - Bassett Quartet
1.61 I'm Not Ashamed of Jesus - Bassett Quartet
1.62 Land of Beulah - Dye's Sacred Harp Singers
1.63 Calvary - Dye's Sacred Harp Singers
1.64 Victoria - Dye's Sacred Harp Singers
1.65 Bethel - Dye's Sacred Harp Singers
1.66 Conversion - Denson-Parris Sacred Harp Singers
1.67 The Good Old Way - Denson-Parris Sacred Harp Singers
1.68 The Heavenly Port - Denson-Parris Sacred Harp Singers
1.69 Blooming Youth - Denson-Parris Sacred Harp Singers
1.70 Ragan - Denson-Parris Sacred Harp Singers
1.71 Raymond - Denson-Parris Sacred Harp Singers
1.72 Christian Soldier - Denson Quartet
1.73 I'm on My Journey Home - Denson Quartet
1.74 Wondrous Love - Georgia Sacred Harp Quartet
1.75 Windham - Georgia Sacred Harp Quartet
1.76 Liberty - Moody Bible Sacred Harp Singers
1.77 In That Morning - Moody Bible Sacred Harp Singers
1.78 Soft Music - Original Sacred Harp Choir
1.79 Canaans Land - Original Sacred Harp Choir
1.80 Pleyel's Hymn - Original Sacred Harp Choir
1.81 New Britain - Original Sacred Harp Choir

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