Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Rev. W. A. White
Rev. W. A. White
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
James Blythe
James Blythe
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Sodarisa Miller
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Sunset Four Quartette & Grace Outlaw
Sunset Four Quartette & Grace Outlaw
Ray Logan
Ray Logan
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Ethel Waters
Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Sunset Four Quartette
Sunset Four Quartette
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
“Coot” Grant and “Kid” Wesley Wilson
“Coot” Grant and “Kid” Wesley Wilson
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Danny Small and Ukulele Mays
Danny Small and Ukulele Mays
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Viola Bartlette
Viola Bartlette
Madame C. Mae Frierson Moore &
Madame C. Mae Frierson Moore &
“Coot” Grant and “Kid” Wesley Wilson
Leola B. “Coot Grant” Wilson
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
M. R. Ward
M. R. Ward
Ozie McPherson
Ozie McPherson
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Trixie Smith
Trixie Smith
The C. A. Tindley Bible Class Gospel Singers
The C. A. Tindley Bible Class Gospel Singers
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Danny Small and Ukulele Mays
Danny Small and Ukulele Mays
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Trixie Smith
Leola B. “Coot Grant” Wilson
“Coot” Grant and “Kid” Wesley Wilson
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Jimmy O’Bryant’s Washboard Band
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Viola Bartlette
Viola Bartlette
Blythe’s Sinful Five
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Rev. W. A. White
Rev. W. A. White
Ozie McPherson
Ozie McPherson
Viola Bartlette
Ma Rainey
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Ozie McPherson
Ozie McPherson
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Austin And His Musical Ambassadors
The Hotentots
Priscilla Stewart
Priscilla Stewart
Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Ozie McPherson
Ozie McPherson
Viola Bartlette
Viola Bartlette
Ma Rainey
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blythe’s Washboard Band
Viola Bartlette
Viola Bartlette
James Blythe
James Blythe
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Norfolk Jazz & Jubilee Quartette
Cora Hopson
Cora Hopson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Jimmie Blythe And His Ragmuffins & Trixie Smith
Jimmie Blythe And His Ragmuffins
Klien Tindull Paramount Serenaders
Klien Tindull Paramount Serenaders &
The C. A. Tindley Bible Class Gospel Singers
The C. A. Tindley Bible Class Gospel Singers
“Coot” Grant and “Kid” Wesley Wilson
Leola B. “Coot Grant” Wilson
Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Ida Cox
Ida Cox
Junie Cobb’s Home Town Band
Junie Cobb’s Home Town Band
Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Dixon’s Jazz Duo
Dixon’s Jazz Duo
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Blind Blake
Blind Blake
The C. A. Tindley Bible Class Gospel Singers
Bo Weavil Jackson
Bo Weavil Jackson
Bo Weavil Jackson
Bo Weavil Jackson
Lovie Austin’s Blues Serenaders
Leola B. “Coot Grant” Wilson & Blind Blake
Leola B. “Coot Grant” Wilson & Blind Blake
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Ma Rainey
Ma Rainey
Biddleville Quintette
Biddleville Quintette
Ardell “Shelly” Bragg
Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals
Freddie Keppard’s Jazz Cardinals & Papa Charlie Jackson
We is gathahed hyeah, my brothahs
In dis howlin' wildaness
Fu' to speak some words of comfo't
To each othah in distress
An' I chooses fu' my subjic'
Dis—I'll 'splain it by an' by
"An' de Lawd said, 'Moses, Moses'
An' de man said, 'Hyeah am I'"
Now ole Pher'oh, down in Egypt
Was de wuss man evah bo'n
An' he had de Hebrew chillun
Down dah wukin' in his co'n
'Twell de Lawd got tiahed o' his foolin'
He said: "I'll let him know—
Look hyeah, Moses, you go an' tell Pher'oh
I say let my chillun go
"An' ef he refuse to do it
I'll make him rue de houah
I'll empty down on Egypt
All de vials of my powah"
An' he did—an' Pher'oh's ahmy
Wasn't wuth a ha'f a dime
Now de Lawd will he'p his chillun
You kin trust him evah time
Oh, de enemy can 'sail you
F'om de back an' f'om de front
But de Lawd's all aroun' you
To ba' de battle's brunt
Dey kin fo'ge yo' chains an' shackles
F'om de mountains to de sea
But de Lawd gwine to sen' some Moses
To set his chillun free
An' de lan' shall hyeah his thundah
Lak de blas' f'om Gab'el's ho'n
'Case de Lawd of hosts is mighty
When he girds his ahmor on
But fu' feah some one mistakes me
I'm gwine to pause right hyeah to say
I'm a-preachin' ancient
I ain't talkin' 'bout to-day
But I tell you, fellah christuns
Things do happen mighty strange
Now, de Lawd done dis fu' Isrul
An' his ways don't nevah change
An' de love dat he showed Isrul
Wasn't all on Isrul spent
Now don't run an' tell yo' mastahs
Dat I'se preachin' discontent
'Case I isn't; I'se only judgin'
Bible people by deir ac's
I'se givin' you de Scriptuah
I'se handin' you de fac's
'Case Pher'oh b'lieved in slav'ry
An' de Lawd he let him see
Dat de people he put bref in—
Evah mothah's son was free
Ante Bellum Sermon - Part I was written by Paul Laurence Dunbar & Cora Hopson.