Mudcat Café message #534254

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Thread #30766 Message #534254
Posted By: wysiwyg
23-Aug-01 - 08:37 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Req: Down to the River to Pray
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Down to the River to Pray

Yes, but the spirituals would have to be earlier.
It's amazing how many items I am finding in there that I have seen as "later" music which never credited the spirituals as a source. Several blues gospels we discuss as having been "by" early blues artists (Davis, etc.), were spirituals first.
~Susan