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Old-time religion was an entirely different creature in the American South during the 1920s and ’30s. White artists and black artists treated the music of the church quite dissimilarly, but all of it is rich with history and tradition. This CD features a little of both with "Lonesome Valley," "The Little Black Train" The Carter Family; "Take Your Burden to the Lord," "God Moves on the Water" Blind Willie Johnson; "I Know that Jesus Set Me Free," "Went Up in the Clouds of Heaven" Ernest Phipps; "To the Work" Alfred Karnes; "Honey in the Rock," "Wouldn’t Mind Dying" Blind Mamie; "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" Uncle Dave Macon; "The Lion and the Tribes of Judah" Lonnie McIntorsh; "My Mother Is Waiting for Me in Heaven Above" The Smith Brothers and "Just as Soon as My Feet Strike Zion, Lord I Won’t Be Troubled No More" Rev. J.M. Gates. Folkways Records.