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This 100 song gospel boxset Goodbye Babylon is so going to the top of my wants list.

"You will shout "Hallelujah!" when you see the look on your loved ones faces on Easter morning as they open this beautiful box and see the careful attention paid by our loving staff of artists and craftsmen. You'll sing "Glory Glory" when you hear the digitally remastered sanctified songs. You'll cry "Sweet Jesus" as you recall the words you once sung and learn new ones from our printed transcriptions."

An article on the compiler Lance Ledbetter:

"He found a street minister named Sister O. M. Terrell, whose mother was an Atlanta laundress and whose song "The Bible's Right" admonished adulterers and tobacco chewers. He found Elder Curry, whose Mississippi congregation sang about influenza, and he found the prisoner Jimpson, who wailed along to a beat of wood chopping. The fidelity of this last recording would've been flawless, if not for the startling moment when a flying wood chip struck the microphone."

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