The Happy Journey:
Early American Vocal Music, Volume II
(CD)

A delightful and moving compendium of early American song including Shaker Songs, New England Anthems, Folk-hymns and Fuging-Tunes by rough-hewn Yankee tunesmiths Billings, Ingalls, Jenks and Wood.

Also featured are Southern Spirituals, both black and white, including the first published version of Amazing Grace (called New Britain) and the first piece of published music written by an American woman, The Promised Land by Miss M. Durham.
[Originally released on NONESUCH RECORDS in 1984.]

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Track List (click to download sample):
1. The Happy Journey- Anonymous [1:46]
2. Now, My Dear, Companions / Drink Ye of Mother's Wine- Augustus R Blasé [1:28]
3. Funeral Hymn- Anonymous [1:28]
4. Who Will Bow and Bend Like a Willow- Anonymous [0:45]
5. From the Moon / Come Life, Shaker Life- Anonymous [1:50]
6. Honor to the Hills- Jeremiah Ingalls [1:31]
7. Brevity- Abraham Wood [0:58]
8. Sorrow's Tear- Stephen Jenks [3:24]
9. Decay- Jenks [1:07]
10. Columbia- Ingalls [2:37]
11. Lamentation- Ingalls [2:06]
12. Evening Hymn- Elisha West [1:59]
13. Complainer- Ingalls [2:36]
14. Euroclydon, An Anthem (Psalm 107, for Mariners)- William Billings [3:45]
15. Wake Up [1:02]
16. Musgrove- E. R. White [1:10]
17. The Bower of Prayer- E. J. King [1:59]
18. Weeping Mary / To The Land- John G. McCurry [1:34]
19. The Angels Done Bowed Down- Anonymous [2:31]
20. Calvary- Anonymous [4:13]
21. Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass- Anonymous [1:59]
22. Wondrous Love- Anonymous [1:40]
23. New Britain / The Promised Land- Anonymous / Miss M. Durham [3:15]

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