The University of Mississippi

Music 517: African American Musical Traditions

Classic Gospel


1. Dinwiddie Colored Quartet - Down on the Old Camp Ground (1902)

2. Jimpson - No More, My Lord (Parchman, 1947)

3. Blind Willie Johnson - I'm Gonna Run (1928)

4. Roosevelt and Aaron Graves - Woke Up This Morning (1936)

5. Arizona Dranes - God's Got a Crown (1928)

6. Sister O.M. Terrell - The Bible's Right (1953)             

7. Rev. F.W. McGee - Fifty Miles of Elbow Room (1930)

8. Elder David R. Curry - Memphis Flu (1930)                

9. John Byrd & Washboard Walter - Heavenly Airplane

10. Taskiana Four - Creep Along Moses (1926)             

11. Bryant's Jubilee Quartet - I'll Be Satisfied (1931)        

12. Famous Blue Jay Singers - Leaning on the Lord (1932)       

13. Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Golden Gate Gospel Train 

14. Thomas A. Dorsey - How About You? (1932)

15. Mahalia Jackson - God's Gonna Separate (1937)

16. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Two Little Fishes And Fives Loaves

17. Bernice Johnson Reagon - Jacobs Ladder (1992)


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