Fire in My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel, 1944-2007

Various Artists
Label: Tompkins Square
Number of Discs: 3
Format: Audio CD
Release date:27th October 2009

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Track Listing

1. Peace in the Valley - Rev. Lonnie Farris
2. Rock and Roll Sermon - Elder Charles D. Beck
3. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again - Reverend Anderson Johnson,
4. I'm a Soldier - The Phillips' Specials,
5. How Long - Sister O.M. Terrell
6. Better Get Ready - Elder R. Wilson & Family
7. So Glad - Rev. Robert Ballinger
8. Wasn't That a Mystery - Madison County Senior Center Singers
9. When the Saints Go Marching In - Precious Bryant
10. Get Back Satan - Bonnie Woodstock, Rev. Roger L. Worthy
11. I Got a Telephone in My Bosom - Amazing Farmer Singers of Chicago
12. I Made a Vow to the Lord - Rev. Steward & Family
13. You've Got to Move (When the Lord Gets Ready) - Two Gospel Keys
14. Down by the Riverside - Snooks Eaglin
15. Stand by Me - Sister Mathews
16. Wicked Shall Cease from Troubling - Nathaniel Rivers
17. That's Alright (Since My Soul Has Got a Seat Up in the Kingdom) - Laura Rivers
18. Why Sorrow Done Passed Me Around - Georgia Fife and Drum Band
19. Don't Let Him Ride - Mississippi Nightingales,
20. He's Coming Back - The Brinson Brothers, Elder & Sister Brinson,
21. By His Word - The Holmes Sisters,
22. Where Could I Go - Lucille Barbee
23. Stand by Me - Brother George & His Sanctified Singers,
24. I'll Never Turn Back - Shelby Bransford Jr.,
25. You Without Sin Cast the First Stone - Isaiah Owens
26. Storm Thru Mississippi - Henry Green
27. I'm Pressing On - Brother Willie Blue,
28. Jesus' Blood - Golden Stars,
29. Glory Glory Hallelujah - Napoleon Strickland,
30. John Saw - Grant & Ella
31. Since He Touched Me - The Shaw Singers,
32. God's Mighty Hand - Utah Smith
33. What Can I Do Without the Lord - Ray Branch,
34. Angels - Prof. Johnson & His Gospel Singers,
35. Truth in the Gospel - Goldie Haynes & Choir,
36. Walk with Me - Rayborn Brothers Quintet
37. Spirit of the Lord - The Abraham Brothers,
38. I've Got Heaven on My Mind - Hickory Bottom Harmoneers
39. In God's House - Sisters of Song
40. Does Jesus Care - Marie Knight
41. If I Could Not Say a Word - Joe Townsend
42. Where the Sun Never Goes Down - Willie J. Williams
43. I Heard It Throught the True Vine - Flora Molton
44. Father, I Stretch My Arm to Thee - Rev. G.W. Killens, Mt. Calvary Congregation,
45. Nobody Knows - Robert Brown, , Sons of the South
46. How Much I Owe - The Radio Four
47. My Testimony - Abner Jay
48. Prayer /I Love the Lord [Excerpt] - Clear Creek Missionary Baptist Church Congregation
49. Same Man - The Gospel Writers,
50. I Know I Got Religion - Hogman Maxey, Andy Mosely
51. He's My Rock, My Sword, My Shield - Fannie Bell Chapman,
52. Working on a Building - Rev. Louis Overstreet
53. Lord, Hold My Hand - True Loving Five
54. Fire Shed in My Bones - Boyd Rivers
55. Power Is the Heart of Man - Brother & Sister W.B. Grate
56. Don't Let the Devil Ride - Ike Gordon
57. Holy Rock - Reverend Billy H. Grady,
58. Pray on, My Child - Willamette Gospel Singers
59. Jesus Is Sweet to Me - Sensational Skylights,
60. I Want to Live (So God Can Use Me) - Willie Eason
61. I'm Just a Voice - Helen McGiver & The McGiver Singers
62. You Ought to Been There - The B.C. Harmonizers,
63. You Better Get Ready - The Bible Aires Spiritual Singers,
64. Help Me - Lula Collins
65. So Soon - Little Ax & The Golden Echoes
66. Introduction/Rock Daniels - Bishop Eric McDaniels
67. Very Last Mile - John Boswell & The True Sounding Boswellettes,
68. What God Can Do - Leon Pinson
69. Let the Redeemed Say So - Reverend John Wilkins
70. Sweet Home - E.L. Burtis
71. Little Old Fashioned - Elizabeth Phillips
72. How Long - Charles White
73. At a Time Like This (Pt. 1) - Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, Isaac Haney,
74. God Rode in the Windstorm - James Earle Hines Goodwill Singers,
75. Go Devil Go - Ira Mae Littlejohn,
76. This Train - Elder Samuel Patterson & The Christian Crusaders
77. Victory Shall Be Mine - Straight Street Holiness Group
78. Lord Is My Shepherd - Mosby Family Singers
79. Some Sweet Day - Bishop Perry Tillis
80. Swing Low - Theotis Taylor

Product Description

The majority of this music has never been reissued on CD, or in any other form (most tracks were originally released on regional independent labels). Most post-WWII compilations of African-American gospel music naturally concentrate on the astounding quartet and solo vocalist sounds made during the music's Golden Age. Fire In My Bones attempts to address and collect more neglected sounds from that era (and on to the present day). Dozens of traditions are represented. Some go back hundreds of years while others seem to have been arrived at as soon as the tape began to roll. Field recordings and studio tracks are all mashed together, with solo performances next to congregational recordings, hellfire sermons next to afterlife laments. Leon Pinson, Elder & Sister Brinson & the Brinson Brothers, Grant & Ella, Straight Street Holiness Group, Theotis Taylor, Brother & Sister W B Grate -- these artists will now be just a little less obscure.

Fire In My Bones provides a small peek at the incredible diversity and power of post-war black gospel. Much of this music is raw, distorted and might sound a bit strange. But it is not presented as a novelty freak show or as "outsider music." This is gospel - which we must always remember translates as "the good news" - as it has been sung and performed in tiny churches and large programs, from rural Georgia to urban Los Angeles. It is clearly among the most vibrant, playful, beautiful and emotionally charged music in the world.

Produced by Mike McGonigal. Package design by Grammy-winner Susan Archie.