These recordings were made by the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project, a study conducted by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service. Fieldwork for the project took place in the summer of 1978 with an additional visit in 1979. The two discs present a cross-section of the region's religious expression -- hymn-singing, prayer, and sermons from church services, performances of gospel music by local trios and quartets, a baptism at a creek, and stories of religious conversion or a call to the ministry. A 96-page booklet describes the region and its religious expression and annotates each of the selections. Congregation of the Cross Roads Primitive Baptist Church, vocals / Congregation of the Clarks Creek Progressive Primitive Baptist Church, vocals / Rev. James Strickland, vocal / Rev. Tommy Worrell, vocal / Congregation of the Macedonia Union Baptist Church, vocals / Rev. Robert Akers, vocal / Elder Milliard Pruitt and Congregation of the Laurel Glenn Regular Baptist Church, vocals / Rev. Cecil Hooper and Rev. J.L. Byrd and the Congregations of the Mountain View Baptist Church and Community, vocals

14 tracks on first CD include:

Children of the Heav'nly King; Testimony / Satan, Your Kingdom Music Come Down; Philip in Samaria; How Long Has It Been?; I'm Going Down by the River of Jordan / Prayer; What a Time We're Living In; When the Redeemed Are Gathering In; How Happy Are They; Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone; Prayer; Jesus Is Coming Soon; Doxology; Blessing; Baptizing at Carson Creek

12 tracks on second CD include:

Palms of Victory; Holding to His Hand of Love; The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow; Keep on the Firing Line; On the Other Side of Jordan; Twilight Is Falling; A Home in Heaven; Preaching by Inspiration; A Vision in a Tobacco Barn; I'll Make You a Fisherman of Men; I Used to Be Wild as a Buck; A Vision of the End of Time

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Product #: 21202085