Fisk University Jubilee Singers - In Bright Mansions (CD)

Nine very courageous and gifted young Americans who in 1871, six years after the civil war, set off from Nashville, Tennessee, not to cross the Rockies or sail round the Horn, but to save a failing university that meant everything to them. They were the Jubilee Singers from Fisk University heading north on a first tour. All but two were former slaves, several were still in their teens. They had no money, no reputation, no experience performing on the road, with the ridicule and menace they faced, because of their color, were all too real in a land where, by then, everybody supposedly had equal rights.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. I'm Gonna Sing Till the Spirit Moves
2. Poor Man Lazrus
3. Down By the Riverside
4. Lord, I'm Out Here on Your Word
5. De Gospel Train
6. Were You There?
7. Rockin' Jerusalem
8. Nobody Knows the Trouble I See
9. I've Been in the Storm
10. Soon-Ah Will Be Done
11. He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
12. Hold on!
13. There Is a Balm in Gilead
14. Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord
15. Wade in the Water
16. Ride on, Jesus
17. I Got a Home In-A Dat Rock
18. In Bright Mansions