Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Rev. T.T. Rose - Goodbye, Babylon
2. Da Costa Woltz's Southern Broadcasters - Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb
3. Roosevelt Graves and Brother - Woke up this Morning (with My Mind on Jesus)
4. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Present Joys
5. Blind Lemon Jefferson - All I Need is that Pure Religion
6. JE Mainer - Satisfied
7. Chuck Wagon Gang - As the Life of a Flower
8. Holy Ghost Sanctified Singers - Thou Carest Lord, for Me
9. Washington Phillips - Lift Him up That's All
10. Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Rock My Soul
11. Ernest V. Stoneman - There's a Light Lit up in Galilee
12. Arizona Dranes - Crucifixion
13. The Blue Chips - Crying Holy unto the Lord
14. Louvin Brothers - I'll Never Go Back
15. Mahalia Jackson - God's Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares
16. Luther Magby - Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
17. Blind Gary Davis - I Belong to the Band - Hallelujah!
18. Carter Family - River of Jordan
19. Lil McClintock - Sow Good Seeds
20. Bryant's Jubilee Quartet - I'll Be Satisfied
21. Frank Palmes - Troubled 'Bout My Soul
22. Bascom Lamar Lunsford - Dry Bones
23. Carlisle Brothers - Jesus My All
24. Taskiana Four - Creep Along, Moses
25. Tennessee Music and Printing Company Quartet - Joy Bells
26. Elder David Ross - He Gave Me a Heart to Love
27. Bessie Jones and the Sea Island Singers - O Day

Disc 2:

1. Brother Claude Ely - There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down
2. Elder Curry and His Congregation - Memphis Flu
3. Sister O.M. Terrell - The Bible's Right
4. Stanley Brothers - Standing in the Need of Prayer
5. Carl Smith with the Carter Sisters and Mother Maybelle - Blood That Stained the Old Rugged Cross
6. Thomas A. Dorsey - How About You
7. Skip James - Jesus is a Mighty Good Leader
8. Charles Butts Sacred Harp Singers - Murillo's Lesson
9. Kentucky Ramblers - Glory Glory Glory Glory to the Lamb
10. Elder Richard Bryant - Come Over Here
11. Jaybird Coleman - I'm Gonna Cross the River of Jordan
12. Trumpeteers - Milky White Way
13. Johnson Family Singers - Deliverance will Come
14. North Carolina Cooper Boys - Daniel in the Den of Lions
15. Sister Cally Fancy - Goin' to Heaven in the Sanctified Way
16. Jimpson - No More, My Lord
17. King's Sacred Quartet - This World Can't Stand Long
18. Virginia Dandies - God's Getting Worried
19. Empire Jubilee Quartet - Get Right Church
20. Rosie Hibler and Family - Move, Members, Move
21. Huggins-Phillips Sacred Harp Singers - Lover of the Lord
22. A.A. Gray and Seven Foot Dilly - The Old Ark's A Moving
23. Blind Roger Hay - On My Way To Heaven
24. Uncle Dave Macon - The Bible's True
25. Price Family Sacred Singers - Ship of Glory
26. Elders McIntorsh & Edwards - He Gave Me a Heart to Love
27. Elder Effie Hall and Congregation - O Day
28. Blind Willie Davis - When the Saints Go Marching In
29. Lion and the Cyril Monrose String Orchestra - Jonah, Come out the Wilderness

Disc 3:

1. Dinwiddie Colored Quartet - Down on the Old Camp Ground
2. Norfolk Jubilee Quartet - My Lord's Gonna Move this Wicked Race
3. Edward W. Clayborn - Your Enemy Cannot Harm You (But Watch Your Close Friend)
4. McVay and Johnson - Ain't Going To Lay My Armor Down
5. James and Martha Carson - I'll Fly Away
6. Alabama Sacred Harp Singers - Heavenly Vision
7. Blind Willie Johnson - Lord I Just Can't Keep From Crying
8. Jubilee Gospel Team - Lower My Dying Head
9. Two Gospel Keys - You've Got to Move
10. Flatt and Scruggs - That Home Above
11. Golden Gate Quartet - Golden Gate Gospel Train
12. Roosevelt Graves and Brother - I'll Be Rested (When the Roll is Called)
13. Eddie Head and His Family - Down on Me
14. Blind Joe Taggart - Goin' to Rest Where Jesus Is
15. Louis Washington - Got Heaven in My View
16. Rev. Sister Mary Nelson - Judgment
17. Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers - I Want Two Wings to Veil My Face
18. Rev. D.C. Rice - We Got the Same Kinda Power over Here
19. Washington Phillips - What are They Doing in Heaven Today?
20. T.C.I. Women's Four - That Great Day
21. North Canton Quartet - I'm Bound for Home
22. Washington White - I am in the Heavenly Way
23. Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - Over in Gloryland
24. Rev. Anderson Johnson - Death in the Morning
25. Maddox Brothers & Rose - In the Land Where We'll Never Grow Old
26. Dock Walsh - Bathe in that Beautiful Pool
27. Hank Williams - I'll Have a New Body

Disc 4:

1. Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper - Walking My Lord Up Calvary's Hill
2. Sheffield Quartet - Christ Arose
3. Thomas A. Dorsey - If You See My Savior
4. Jubilee Gospel Team - Let Jesus Lead You
5. Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet - Found a Wonderful Savior
6. Arizona Dranes and Choir - He is My Story
7. Ernest V. Stoneman and His Dixie Mountaineers - I Remember Calvary
8. Blind Willie Johnson - Take Your Burden to the Lord and Leave It There
9. Rev. W.M. Mosley - If You Follow Jesus
10. Blind Benny Paris & Wife - Hide Me in the Blood of Jesus
11. Wade Mainer - I'll be a Friend to Jesus
12. Tennessee Mountaineers - Standing on the Promises
13. Mother McCollum - Jesus is My Aeroplane
14. Sam Jones - I've Got Salvation
15. Blind Alfred Reed - I Mean to Live for Jesus
16. Heavenly Gospel Singers - When Was Jesus Born
17. Blue Sky Boys - Come to the Savior
18. Dorothy Melton - I Want Jesus to Walk with Me
19. Laura Henton - He's Coming Soon
20. Okeh-Atlanta Sacred Harp Singers - Return Again
21. Blind Gary Davis - I am the True Vine
22. Bela Lam and His Greene County Singers - Sweet Story of Old
23. Elder Harris - I'll Lead a Christian Life
24. Famous Blue Jay Singers - I'm Leaning on the Lord
25. Blind Willie Harris - Where He Leads Me I Will Follow
26. Luther Magby - Jesus is Getting us Ready

Disc 5:

1. Silver Leaf Quartette - Daniel Saw the Stone
2. Alfred Karnes - Called to the Foreign Field
3. Ridgel's Fountain Citians - Hallelujah to the Lamb
4. Deacon A. Wilson - You Need Jesus on Your Side
5. Pace Jubilee Singers - You'd Better Mind
6. J.T. Allison's Sacred Harp Singers - Exhilaration
7. Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers - If the Light Has Gone Out of Your Soul
8. Brown's Ferry Four - Keep on the Firing Line
9. Bailes Brothers - Romans Ten and Nine
10. Wade Mainer - Standing Outside
11. Monroe Brothers - Sinner You Better Get Ready
12. Blind Willie McTell - I Got to Cross the River of Jordan
13. Dock Reed and Vera Hall Ward - Free at Last
14. Bessie Johnson's Sanctified Singers - The Whole World In His Hand
15. Mahalia Jackson - Amazing Grace
16. Blind Mamie Forehand - Honey in the Rock
17. Seventh Day Adventist Choir - On Jordan's Stormy Banks We Stand
18. Elder J.E. Burch - My Heart Keeps Singing
19. Joshua White - I Don't Intend to Die in Egyptland
20. Daniels Deason Sacred Harp Singers - Primrose Hill
21. Daniels Deason Sacred Harp Singers - Primrose Hill
22. Mrs. L. Reed & Mrs. T.A. Duncans - Light in the Valley
23. The Georgia Peach - When the Saints Go Marching In
24. Jimmie Strothers - Down to the Shore
25. Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Every
26. Rev. T.T. Rose - Goodbye, Babylon part 2

Disc 6:

1. Rev. J.M. Gates - Gettin' Ready For Christmas Day
2. Rev A.W. Nix - Black Diamond Express to Hell Part 1
3. Rev A.W. Nix - Black Diamond Express to Hell Part 2
4. Rev. J.C. Burnett - The Downfall of Nebuchadezzar
5. Rev. Isaiah Shelton - The Liar
6. Rev. Emmet Dickinson - Hell and What It Is
7. Elder J.E. Burch - The Church And the Kingdom
8. Rev. T.E. Weems - If I Have a Ticket Lord Can I Ride
9. Rev. Benny Campbell - You Must be Born Again
10. Rev. E.D. Campbell - Take Me to the Water
11. Jubilee Gospel Team - Oh, Lord Remember Me
12. Rev. E.S. (Shy) Moore - Christ, the Teacher
13. Rev. Johnny Blakey - King of Kings
14. Elder Otis Jones - O Lord I'm Your Child
15. Rev. Webb - Moses was Rescued by a Negro Woman
16. Rev. George Jones - That White Mule of Sin
17. Deacon Leon Davis - Deacon's Prayer Service
18. Rev. S.J. Worell - The Prodigal Son
19. C.H. Gatewood - Well of Salvation
20. Rev. F.W. McGee - Jonah in the Belly of the Whale
21. Rev. J.C. Burnett - The Gambler's Doom
22. Hallelujah Joe - The Prodigal's Return
23. Rev. T.E. Weems - God is Mad with Man
24. Rev. J.M. Milton - The Black Camel of Death
25. Rev. J.M. Gates - Death Might Be Your Santa Claus

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #81408 in Music
• Released on: 2003-10-27
• Number of discs: 6
• Format: Box set

Album Description
Goodbye Babylon is a 6 CD gospel reissue collection. 5 CDs contain 135 songs from 1902-1960 and the 6th disc is comprised of 25 sermons recorded between 1926-1941. Also included is a 200 page book complete with Bible verses, lyric transcriptions, and notes for each recording, plus over 200 illustrations. - Art direction and design by World of anArchie, the Grammy® winning team behind "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton," and other fine works such as "Dock Boggs Country Blues," and "Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, Volume IV." - Sound restoration and mastering by Airshow Mastering, the team that restored the "Anthology of American Folk Music" (Smithsonian Folkways, 1997), and won a Grammy® for their work on "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton" (Revenant, 2002). - Reverently packed in raw cotton and housed in a deluxe 8" x 11" x 2.5" cedar box. Notes and essays by musicologists and scholars, including several Grammy® winners. - Contributors include Lynn Abbott, David Evans, Ray Funk, Anthony Heilbut, Kip Lornell, Luigi Monge, Paul Oliver, Opal Louis Nations, Bruce Nemerov, Guido van Rijn, Ken Romanowski, Tony Russell, Doug Seroff, Dick Spottswood, Warren Steel, David Tibet, Gayle Dean Wardlow, and Charles Wolfe.

David Fricke, Rolling Stone, January 22, 2004
This fantastic box of holy ruckus is the greatest anthology of antique Southern sacred song and oratory ever assembled.

Will Hermes, Spin, March 2004
"Goodbye, Babylon" is one of the most impressive collections of gospel recordings ever assembled.

Customer Reviews

A piece of America
I have had this set for over a year and I still have not listened to it all. 135 songs of such diverse and interesting variety and styles. The music is so raw in most cases that it speaks to the gut first, then the heart.
Dust to Digital is the best outfit in the world for locating and assembling such massive historical recordings. This is the most pleasureable set of gospel (if you can limit it to that genre) music, ever. Thank you DtoD.

This Is A Must-Have
This set includes 5 music CD's plus 1 preaching CD. All six are good ones and each individual CD is put together according to a single theme; salvation, judgement, etc. I listen to this over and over again and I never tire of it. Maybe this is a bit pricy, but still it's worth every cent.

A truly splendid collection
This is one of the most wide-ranging and wonderful collections of early roots music I've found. The performances range from gospel quartets and choirs through blues and jug bands, pulling together influences from gospel, bluegrass and country, jazz, and blues. And then there's an entire disc of sermons, with such gems (no pun intended) as "Black Diamond Express to Hell". Great stuff, and a wonderfully eclectic collection of early roots music, gospel or not.

The sound quality is very good, especially given the age of many of the sources.

There's not a ton of historical/biographical info in the 200+ page book, but the inclusion of all the lyrics of every song is a huge win. The packaging is as cool as it looks, but isn't terribly practical for day-to-day use. That wasn't a problem for me, as I ripped all six CDs and have primarily played them off my computers, but could be a nuisance for some.