Rough Guide To Spiritual Blues

Flowing from the same bedrock of experience, blues & gospel music have long been closely connected. This Rough Guide features legendary artists who straddled the line between the music of worship and the blues.

Includes tracks by many blues legends including Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Willie McTell, guitar evangelists Blind Willie Johnson and Reverend Gary Davis and blues divas Bessie Smith and Memphis Minnie. Lovingly remastered using pioneering restoration techniques it’s an album which highlights how the line separating the Lord’s song and ‘devil’s music’ was very thin.

Tracks: Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed / Reverend Gary Davis - I Am The True Vine / Blind Joe Taggart - Religion Is Something Within You / Edward W. Clayborn (The Guitar Evangelist) - You Never Will Know Who Is Your Friend / Josh White - I Don’t Intend To Die In Egyptland / Bessie Smith - Moan, You Moaners / Blind Willie Mctell & Curley Weaver - Lord Have Mercy If You Please / Lonnie McIntorsh - The Lion And The Tribes Of Judah / Blind Roosevelt Graves - Take Your Burdens To The Lord / Memphis Minnie - When The Saints Go Marching Home / Dennis Crumpton And Robert Summers - Go I’ll Send Thee / Blind Boy Fuller - Jesus Is A Holy Man / Charley Pa on - Prayer Of Death (Part 1) / Eddie Head And His Family - Tryin’ To Get Home / Son Bonds - Give Me That Old Time Religion / Thom-as A. Dorsey - If You See My Saviour / Rev. I.B. Ware With Wife And Son - I Wouldn’t Mind Dying (But I Go a Go By Myself) / Blind Willie Davis - Your Enemy Cannot Harm You / Mother Mccollum - Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! / Kid Prince Moore - Sign Of Judgement / Washington Phillips - A Mother’s Last Word To Her Daughter / Blind Gussie Nesbit - Canaan Land / Daniel Brown With Blind Blake - Beulah Land / A.C. & Blind Mamie Forehand - I’m So Glad Today / Blind Lemon Je erson - I Want To Be Like Jesus In My Heart / Rev. Emme Dickenson - Death Of Blind Lemon