Ranger1, please remember to include African American Spirituals (and work songs) in your blog. Mahalia Jackson, Harry Belafonte are easy... and there are other links in the Spirituals permathread....

A couple others:

Bessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers - Daniel in the ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wDUWVO_6_A
Recorded by Alan Lomax on May 5, 1960 on St. Simons Island, GA as part of his Southern Journeys ...

Bessie Jones & the Georgia Sea Island Singers: Sink 'Em Low (1959 ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiRetIBwKu4
Bessie Jones leads a work song she first heard sung by a road-crew chain gang in Georgia in the nineteen ...

~Susan