Louis and the Good Book
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| Released | 1958 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
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Louis and the Good Book is a 1958 jazz and spirituals album by Louis Armstrong.[1]
Singles included "I'll String Along with You" / "On My Way (Out on My Traveling Shoes)" 1959, also known as I'm On My Way.[2]
Track listing
[edit]- "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" - 3:03
- "Shadrack" - 3:00
- "Go Down Moses" - 3:37
- "Rock My Soul" - 3:12
- "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" - 2:43
- "On My Way" - 3:05
- "Down by the Riverside" - 3:13
- "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" - 3:10
- "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" - 3:31
- "Jonah and the Whale" - 2:50
- "Didn't It Rain" - 2:52
- "This Train" - 2:31
- Extra tracks on CD reissue
- "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat (With Sy Oliver Chorus)" - 3:18
- "That's What the Man Said (With Sy Oliver Chorus)" - 2:58
- "Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven (With The Decca Chorus Dir. By Lyn Murray)" - 2:49
- "Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen (With The Decca Chorus Dir. By Lyn Murray)" - 3:12
- "Jonah and the Whale (With The Decca Chorus Dir. By Lyn Murray)" - 2:49
- "Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Throwing Stones" - 4:22
- "Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Generosity" - 4:22
References
[edit]- ^ Ilse Storb Jazz Meets the World - The World Meets Jazz 2000 p. 109 "This was followed in 1958 by a musical lament on the poverty, duress and discrimination of his people in the form of a spiritual recording entitled Louis And The Good Book. It contains meaningful and content-laden pieces."
- ^ Scott Allen Nollen Louis Armstrong: The Life, Music, and Screen Career 2004 Page 142 "On My Way" is a blues with a train-like locomotion and a smokin' solo section featuring Louis and Trummy"
