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Bound To Go

Tracks: Blow Your Trumpet Gabriel; Roll, Jordan, Roll; Turkle Dove; Bound to Go; O'er the Crossing; Come & Go with Me; Run to Jesus; Patrol Gonna Catch You; Molly Cottontail; Old Man's Song; Sandy Land; Jaybird & Sparrow;Sheep and Goat; Them Ol' Black Gnats; Milly Biggers; Go to Sleep, My Baby; Rough and Rolling Sea; Four and Twenty Elders; Wake Up Jacob; Anchor Line; Sun Don't Set in the Morning; Way Up on the Mountain; Hammerin' Judgment; Ol' Egyp'; Calvary; Run Mary Run; Uncle Billy; Ol' Elder Brown; No More Cane on the Brazos; Lost John; Back Home in Georgia; I'll Hear the Trumpet Sound; Open the Window, Noah; Michael Haul the Boat Ashore; Tree of Life


Bound to Go includes authentic spirituals, shout songs from the Sea Islands, prison ballads and rare secular folk songs. “Run to Jesus” is the song that first gave Frederick Douglass the notion of escaping from slavery. With an essay and historical/folklore notes on the songs. Recorded with trumpet, fretless gourd and 5-string banjo, guitars, fiddle, cello, harmonica, piano, percussion and many wonderful singers! 72 minutes running time. Cover painting by Gullah artist Jonathan Green. In memory of Joy Calhoun, who worked for justice in the Civil Rights movement, 10% of income from sales goes to support programs for children, half to College of Charleston's African-American history camps, half to Williams Preparatory Academy Arts programs, 2710 S. Dearborn in Chicago.(www.jonathangreenstudios.com)


Bound to Go is available through Waterbug Records.