Alan Lomax first visited the Georgia Sea Island of St. Simons in June of 1935 with folklorist Mary Elizabeth Barnicle and author Zora Neale Hurston. There they met the remarkable Spiritual Singers Society of Coastal Georgia, as the group was then called, and recorded several hours of their songs and dances for the Library of Congress. Returning 25 years later, Lomax found that the Singers were still active, and had been enriched by the addition of Bessie Jones, a South Georgia native with a massive collection of songs going back to the slavery era.
CD 1
01. Sheep Sheep Don't You Know the Road
02. You Better Mind
03. Plumb The Line
04. O Day (Yonder Come Day)
05. Moses Don't Get Lost
06. Blow Gabriel
07. Got To Lie Down (How Shall I Rise)
08. Sometimes
09. Shoo Turkey
10. Adam In The Garden
11. Daniel in the Lion's Den
12. Little David, Play on Your Harp
13. You Got to Reap Just What You Sow/Just a Little Talk with Jesus
14. O Mary Don't You Weep
15. Throw Me Overboard
16. Going to Chattanooga
17. See Aunt Dinah
18. John Henry
19. Sink 'Em Low
20. Diamond Joe
21. Live Humble
22. Get in Union
23. Elephant Fair
24. Uncle Ned
25. That Suits Me
CD 2
01. No Hiding Place Down Here
02. O Death
03. Dead and Gone
04. Prayer
05. Sign of the Judgement
06. This Train Is a Clean Train
07. Turkle Dove
08. Beulah Land
09. Let Me Fly
10. Walk Daniel
11. I'm Gonna Lay Down My Life for My Lord
12. Way Down Yonder in the Brickyard
13. Bob Young's Song and Whoop
14. Read 'Em, John
15. Before This Time Another Year
16. Once There Was No Sun
17. There Was an Old Lady from Brewster
18. Little Johnny Brown
19. Prodigal Son
20. Take Me to the Water
21. Drinking That Wine
22. Once There Was No Sun [II]
23. One Morning Soon
24. Buzzard Lope
25. One of These Days [I]
26. One of These Days [II]
