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| Listen Now | Title | File Number | Subjects | Recording Date | Alt Title | Genres | Instruments | Cities | Counties | State | Setting | Editor Note | Technical Note | Online Resources | genre_hfilter | instrument_hfilter | city_hfilter | county_hfilter | state_hfilter | setting_hfilter |
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| You Just Sing for Jesus | 6638A1 | Effie Harris, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | [Skip at 1:20] | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | mississippi | silent | ||||
| My Lawd So High You Can't Go Over Him | 6638A2 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | You Must Come in at the Door | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | Title given is that on AFS card. | [Beginning marred by skips/] | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | mississippi | silent | ||
| Walk Around (fragment) | 6638A3 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | mississippi | silent | |||||
| Please Don't Drive Me Away | 6638A4 | Baker T. Garner, Bozie Sturdivant, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | mississippi | silent | |||||
| Christ My Lord Is Coming Soon | 6638B2 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | http://YES AMAZING/ | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | mississippi | silent | ||||
| Precious Lord | 6639A1 | Effie Harris, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | mississippi | silent | |||||
| I'm Toiling, Lord (#1) | 6639A2 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | Identified on AFS card as “Through the Years We Keep On Toiling.” Another take recorded presumably after audience program on 6640A3. | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | mississippi | silent | ||||
| Holy Baby | 6639A3 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | Christmas song, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | Introduction by (presumably) the quartet’s leader Baker T. Garner, noting the song as a request and calling it the “hardest song that ever was, nearly.” | christmas-song sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | mississippi | silent | ||||
| A Charge to Keep I Have | 6640A2 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | hymn, sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | hymn sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | mississippi | silent | |||||
| I'm Toiling, Lord (#2) | 6640A3 | Baker T. Garner, John Skipper, Unidentified men | 7-25-1942 | sacred song | vocal | Clarksdale | Coahoma | Mississippi | Silent Grove Baptist Church | sacred-song | vocal | clarksdale | coahoma | mississippi | silent | |||||
| Toasts (part 1) | 6647A4 | Lewis (Belly) Bell, Unidentified men | 8-4-1942 | toast | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | Vulgar toasts, primarily about crab lice (including one on the NRA [National Recovery Act]). | toast | vocal | sherard | coahoma | mississippi | ||||||
| Toasts (part 2) | 6647A5 | Lewis (Belly) Bell, Unidentified men | 8-4-1942 | toast | vocal | Sherard | Coahoma | Mississippi | toast | vocal | sherard | coahoma | mississippi |