How Can I Keep from Singing, Vol. 2 (1996)

About this title: As with its predecessor, How Can I Keep From Singing Vol.2: Early American Religious Music and Song combines a mere handful of well known performers from the golden age of American Folk Music with a number of more mysterious names. In the place of obvious choices like Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Willie Johnson, for example, we find Shands Superior Jubilee Singers and Ridgel's Fountain Citians. After all, both Davis and Johnson have full-length Yazoo collections devoted to their music. What How Can I Keep From Singing does so well then, is to convey the scope of religious song (on record) ... read more

Tracks:

1. What Shall Our Answer Be
2. I've Got a Home in Beulah Land
3. Rock of Ages [Traditional]
4. Weeping Mary
5. I Want to Be Like Jesus in My Heart
6. He Rose Unknown
7. Will My Mother Know Me There?
8. Memphis Flu
9. Jesus Is My Friend [Scrivenor]
10. Job [Traditional]
11. Hallelujah to the Lamb
12. There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood
13. Silver Slippers
14. Light in the Valley
15. Shine on Me
16. Oh Death
17. Thou Carest Lord
18. My Loving Brother
19. Take Thy Burden to the Lord [Traditional]
20. Lonely Tomb
21. Goin' to Rest Where Jesus Is
22. Lonesome Valley [Traditional]
23. Prayer Meeting

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.