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Music from the interview with Gurdon Brewster

Dick Gordon spoke with Gurdon Brewster on January 21, 2008. The following list is of the songs played in the radio program.

"The Gospel Train" (2002)
Third Creek Baptist Church and Bob Carlin
Album: African-American Note Choirs of Alexander County, North Carolina
Available in the Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Wilson Library.

"Ain't Gone Let Nobody Turn Me Around" (2001)
SNCC Freedom Singers
Album: Every Tone a Testimony

"I Am Headed For the Promised Land" (2002)
Eugene H. Whitt
Album: African-American Note Choirs of Alexander County, North Carolina
Available in the Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Wilson Library.

"How Do You Do Ev'rybody?" (2001)
Ella Jenkins and Nannie McNeil
Album: The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music

"O, Lord, I'm Waitin' On You" (2005)
Valentine Pringle
Album: The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music

"Precious Lord, Take My Hand" (2005)
The Long Sisters
Album: Set Your Fields on Fire: A collection of Sacred Music, Vol. 1

"I Believe I'll Praise" (2007)
The Piney Grove Baptist Church
Album: Set Your Fields on Fire: A collection of Sacred Music, Vol. 2

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