Come Out The Wilderness

This tune features Megan Buchanan and Tony singing a tune Tony learned from an old black man with whom he worked some 40 years ago in Eastern KY. The old man had a great voice and Tony really enjoyed listening to him sing.

Tony and Megan do a nice job on this old spiritual.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• blues
• oldtime
• folk
• religious
• spiritual
• acoustic
• tony
• norris
• megan
• buchanan

[orbis2009]

Wow

[fredcoonbanjo]

Thank you so much for your comments. I shall certainly add these to my stage performance and pass this along to Tony Norris as well.

[sandyFL100]

Alan Lomax first recorded him in 1959, McDowell had already spent four decades playing for tips in his adopted home of Como, Mississippi, McDowell released a stunner with Amazing Grace: Mississippi Delta Spirituals by the Hunter’s Chapel Singers of Como, Miss. The album finds the bluesman paired with singers, includes his wife, Annie Mae, on a collection of traditional spirituals and a few originals. Raw, spare, and unadulterated, this one’s got faith in its ~

[sandyFL100]

~ Just so you know~ a just recently released CD of Mr, Fred McDowell & also, you tube has a playlist of 73 of his original recordings, as well & the Rolling Stones even recorded him~~ Praise, God from my Heart to your Heart~ in Gratitude, in Peace, with Love & Compassion~~ August~ 2011 CD, "Amazing Grace" Fred McDowell ~1966

~One of the great discoveries of the blues revival was Mississippi's Fred McDowell, a rural farmer with an unforgettable voice..

[agjanyo]

My grandfather's grandfather sang this song (South Carolina). The words are the same, the tempo faster. Song refers to joining the Church (Baptist). You put a white cloth on your head, no one talks to you (out of respect) b/c you are in constant prayer & fast. When you have a sign, you tell a leader in the church. A committee of leaders is formed. Then you literally go out into the "wilderness" (cotton, corn fields, etc) & pray. When you get a sign, committee agrees you may be baptized.