Bascom Lamar Lunsford-Dry Bones     
Recorded in February 1928 in Ashland, Kentucky. A rare example of the banjo used in a religious tune.
This tune contains references to Enoch (Gen 5:21-24), Paul (Acts 16:25-26), Moses (Exo 3:2) 
and a strange account out of Ezekiel about walking bones (Ezek 37:1-10), 
not to mention Eve and "Satan a-tempting me."
 
Blind Willie Johnson-If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down December 03, 1927 
Recorded on December 3, 1927 in Dallas, Texas. This was Johnson's first recording session. 
This tune is the story of Samson and Delilah. 
It is the flip side to "Mother's Children Have A Hard Time." 
Rev. Gary Davis popularized this tune in the early sixties during the Great Folk Scare. 
 
Elder Curry & His Congregation-Hard Times  December 16th, 1930  
Recorded on December 16, 1930. Curry, an Elder with the Church of God in Christ, 
plays guitar on this tune. The piano is played by Elder Beck, 
who continued recording into the Forties
 
Rev. I. B. Ware-You Better Quit Drinking Shine
Recorded in late November or early December 1928, 
possibly in Birmingham, Alabama. The tune is credited to the good Reverend, 
his wife and son. "The Lord don't like it, I know..."

DaCosta Woltz' Southern Broadcasters-Are You Washed In The Blood Of The Lamb?     
Recorded in 1927. This string band included Ben Jarrell on fiddle 
(father of '60s fiddle prodigy Tommy Jarrell), Frank Jenkins on banjo 
(father of '60s banjoist Oscar Jenkins) and DaCosta Woltz, also on banjo. 
Woltz was a one-time mayor of Galax, Virginia, a long-time hot bed of old-timey 
banjo-fiddle string bands and site of the famous Fiddlers' Convention.