Lifeline: Music of the Underground Railroad, CD / Album Cd

Lifeline: Music of the Underground Railroad CD / Album

by Lifeline Quartet

CD / Album

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Michelle Mayne-Graves and her Lifeline Quartet perform spirituals from the Civil War era and before, celebrating code songs written as reminders and guides for the underground railroad. These spirituals include hidden messages about maps, navigational strategies and timing for slaves to escape toward freedom in the northern states and Canada.

Track Listing

  1. If I Can Help Somebody
  2. Steal Away to Jesus
  3. Canaan's Land: Fare Ye Well Medley
  4. Wade in the Water
  5. Talk About a Child
  6. Hold On to the Gospel Plow
  7. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (Ola's Song)
  8. Down By the Riverside
  9. Motherless Child
  10. Ain't Goin' to Let Nobody
  11. Deep River
  12. Saint's Medley

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£17.23

Track Listing

  1. If I Can Help Somebody
  2. Steal Away to Jesus
  3. Canaan's Land: Fare Ye Well Medley
  4. Wade in the Water
  5. Talk About a Child
  6. Hold On to the Gospel Plow
  7. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (Ola's Song)
  8. Down By the Riverside
  9. Motherless Child
  10. Ain't Goin' to Let Nobody
  11. Deep River
  12. Saint's Medley

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