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The Real Bahamas in Music and Song
Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Vol. 1: We'll Understand It Better By and By; Sheep Know When
Thy Shephard Calling; I Told You People Judgement Coming; Don't Take Everybody to Be Your Friend;
Sailboat
Malarkey; Up in the Heaven Shouting; Won't That Be a Happy Time; Out on the Rolling Sea; I Am So Glad;
Come
for Your Dinner; God Locked the Lion's Jaw; Great Dream from Heaven; My Lord Help Me to Pray; Numberless
As
the Sands on the Seashore; I Ain't Got Long; I Bid You Goodnight.
Vol. 2: Mary and Joseph; Peter, You Need the Lord; Jesus Promised Me a
Home over There; Troublesome Water; Kneeling Down Inside the Gate; Jesus Your Name So Sweet; Take Me
over
the Tide; When the Leaves Turn Red; That Glad Reunion Day; The Great Coronation; The Captain Go Ashore;
Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold God's Body Down.
Various Artists: The Real Bahamas in Music and Song
by AAJ Staff
Here's the (hi)story in a nutshell. The Bahamas, a British colony, outlawed slavery in 1838, which meant that any lucky American slaves who could get there would be free, and the predictable outcome transpired. The music they brought contained the very roots of the blues, the connection between spirituals and folk music. And so generations around ...