Skip to main content alibris logo

I Am Born to Preach the Gospel ()

by

Write The First Customer Review
I Am Born to Preach the Gospel - Washington Phillips
Filter Results
Shipping
Item Condition
Seller Rating
Other Options
Change Currency
Track Listing
  1. I Am Born to Preach the Gospel
  2. The Church Needs Good Deacons
  3. I Had a Good Father and Mother
  4. Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There
  5. A Mother's Last Word to Her Daughter
Show All Tracks
  1. I Am Born to Preach the Gospel
  2. The Church Needs Good Deacons
  3. I Had a Good Father and Mother
  4. Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There
  5. A Mother's Last Word to Her Daughter
  6. Paul and Silas in Jail
  7. Denomination Blues, Pt. 1
  8. Denomination Blues, Pt. 2
  9. Lift Him Up That's All
  10. Jesus Is My Friend
  11. Mother's Last Word to Her Son
  12. What Are They Doing in Heaven Today?
  13. I've Got the Key to the Kingdom
  14. Train Your Child
  15. You Can't Stop a Tattler, Pt. 1
  16. You Can't Stop a Tattler, Pt. 2
Show Fewer Tracks

In the pre-Depression heyday of "race" records, sacred songs and sermons were as widely recorded (and popular) as blues and jazz. Like such "guitar evangelists" as fellow-Texan Blind Willie Johnson, Phillips's evangelism borrowed from blues and mingled topical commentary in a way which makes his 16 recordings from 1927-29 still compelling. Interdenominational hairsplitting ("Denomination Blues"), lecherous deacons and lax parents are among the targets of Phillips's gentle scorn; like the best of his contemporaries, he mixed ...

loading