{"product_id":"wiregrass-sacred-harp-singers-songs-from-the-b-f-white-sacred-harp-cs","title":"Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers - Songs From The B. F. White Sacred Harp (CS)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeath Is Not The End return to the soul-stir sound of deep south Sacred Harp Singers in 1993 - although it could feasibly be any time since the advent of portable tape recording - in the blessed company of the Union Grove Baptist Church, Ozark, Alabama. Feels just right in this humidity…\n\nThe Wiregrass Singers' Dewey Williams began learning the shape-note tradition in his childhood. He studied under Judge Jackson, who authored the landmark 1934 hymnbook The Colored Sacred Harp. In 1971, Williams formally organized The Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers to preserve the music full-time. This unified troupe began touring nationally and leading workshops, which ultimately launched them onto stages at the Smithsonian and Newport folk festivals up until Williams' passing in 1995 when the group disbanded. The African-American Sacred Harp tradition in the Wiregrass region has steeply declined since the start of the 21st century, due to an aging generation of singers, and today it is largely sustained through archival preservation and occasional multi-book singing meetups.\n\nThis raw recording, made at the Union Grove Baptist Church, Ozark in mid-April 1993 finds the group singing from B. F. White’s The Sacred Harp (1844), which together with his brother-in-law William Walker’s Southern Harmony (1835) formed the musical backbone of generations of Southern music and Southern musical styles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2265414501\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u0026lt;a href=\u0026quot;https:\/\/deathisnot.bandcamp.com\/album\/songs-from-the-b-f-white-sacred-harp\u0026quot;\u0026gt;Songs From The B. F. White Sacred Harp Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers\u0026lt;\/a\u0026gt;\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Death Is Not The End","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49542917685507,"sku":"DEATH133","price":3056.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/files\/0045582764_10.jpg?v=1787973952","url":"https:\/\/meditations.jp\/en\/products\/wiregrass-sacred-harp-singers-songs-from-the-b-f-white-sacred-harp-cs","provider":"Meditations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}