Songs From The B. F. White Sacred Harp [Cassette]

Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers – Songs From The B. F. White Sacred Harp [Cassette]

Recorded at Union Grove Baptist Church in Ozark, Alabama, in April 1993, this cassette documents the Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers performing hymns from B. F. White’s Sacred Harp. The recording preserves an African American shape-note singing tradition rooted in communal, unaccompanied voices.

Track listing

The Happy Sailor

Blooming Youth

Weeping Pilgrim

There We Our Jesus Shall Adore

Bound for Canaan

Cuba

Firm Foundation

Florida

Desire For Piety

Ragan

Struggle On

Ninety-Fifth Psalm

Fallen by the Way

Happy Home

Coronation

The Dying Boy

The Fathers Boundless Love

The Christians Flight

Give Me Just a Little More Time

Genre: Gospel, Sacred Harp, Folk.