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Bessie Jones

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Bessie Jones (February 8, 1902 - July 17, 1984) was an American gospel singer from Smithville, GA. She learned her songs from her grandfather, a former slave born in Africa. She was a founding member of the Georgia Sea Island Singers. Alan Lomax first encountered Bessie Jones on a southern trip in 1959, Jones made her way up to New York City two years later and asked Lomax to record both her music and biography. Jones told an interviewer in Alachua

Top songs

  1. Sometimes
  2. Go to Sleep Little Baby
  3. You Better Mind
  4. O Day
  5. Buzzard Lope
  6. Sheep Don't You Know the Road
  7. O Death
  8. Hambone
  9. Moses Don't Get Lost
  10. Beggin' the Blues
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  1. Shoo Turkey
  2. Sink 'Em Low
  3. Daniel in the Lion's Den
  4. Sometimes'
  5. Diamond Joe
  6. Sometimes.
  7. Plumb The Line
  8. Go to Sleepy Little Baby
  9. See Aunt Dinah
  10. Turkle Dove
  11. Blow Gabriel
  12. I'm Gonna Lay Down My Life for My Lord
  13. So Glad I'm Here
  14. Before This Time Another Year
  15. Adam in the Garden
  16. Dead And Gone
  17. Oh Death
  18. O Mary Don't You Weep
  19. Got to Lie Down
  20. Little David
  21. Gator
  22. Yonder Come Day
  23. Sometime
  24. Throw Me Overboard
  25. John Henry
  26. Go Wash In The Beautiful Stream
  27. Going to Chattanooga
  28. Walk Daniel
  29. Beulah Land
  30. You Got to Reap Just What You Sow/Just a Little Talk with Jesus
  31. Way Down Yonder In The Brickyard
  32. The Buzzard Lope
  33. Get In Union
  34. Johanna
  35. Johnny Cuckoo
  36. Live Humble
  37. How Much I Owe
  38. Elephant Fair
  39. That Suits Me
  40. Uncle Ned
  41. Amazing Grace
  42. Little Johnny Brown
  43. No Hiding Place Down Here
  44. Sheep Sheep Don't You Know the Road
  45. Titanic
  46. One Of These Days
  47. Sign Of The Judgment
  48. May Be The Last Time, I Don't Know
  49. Prayer
  50. Turn My Body Round
  51. This Train Is A Clean Train
  52. O Day (Yonder Come Day)
  53. Riley
  54. Let Me Fly
  55. Old Lady From Brewster
  56. Kindlin' Wood
  57. Read 'Em, John
  58. Got on My Traveling Shoes
  59. Drinking That Wine
  60. Take Me To The Water
  61. Once There Was No Sun (II)
  62. One Morning Soon
  63. There Was An Old Lady From Brewster
  64. Prodigal Son
  65. Devil Been to My House Today
  66. Sandy Ree (Sangaree)
  67. Once There Was No Sun (I)
  68. It Just Suits Me
  69. No More Tears
  70. Goodbye Everybody
  71. Bob Young's Raisin' up Song and Whoop
  72. There Is More Love Somewhere
  73. Reg'lar, Reg'lar, Rolling Under - Remastered
  74. One of These Days (Solo)
  75. Down In The Valley
  76. Down To The Mire
  77. Way Go, Lily
  78. Oh Green Fields, Roxie
  79. Soup, Soup
  80. Nana Thread Needle
  81. Shoo Lie Loo
  82. Got to Lie Down (How Shall I Rise)
  83. Draw Me A Bucket Of Water
  84. Juba
  85. Steal Up, My Young Lady
  86. The Titanic
  87. Sometimes (Moby - Honey)
  88. Little David, Play on Your Harp
  89. Old Bill Rolling Pin
  90. You Got to Reap Just What You Sow / Just a Little Talk with Jesus

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