The Best of the Pilgrim Travelers, Vol. 1

Track Listings

1. I Was There When the Spirit Came

2. Blessed Be the Name

3. Standing on the Highway

4. Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb

5. I've Got a Mother Gone Home

6. Jesus, I'm Thankful

7. Straight Street

8. Mother Bowed

9. Old Rugged Cross

10. Something Within Me

11. Soldier's Plea

12. Satisfied With Jesus

The Best of the Pilgrim Travelers, Vol. 1, Music, The Pilgrim Travelers, Black Gospel, Gospel, Gospel/Christian Music, Pop

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One of the classic Gospel Quartets

Full of Spirit!!!!

The Best of the Pilgrim Travelers, Vol. 1-2
The Pilgrim Travelers
Manufacturer: Specialty
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000000QOC
Release Date: 1991-04-17

Tracks:

I Was There When The Spirit Came
Blessed Be The Name
Standing On The Highway
Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb
I've Got A Mother Gone Home
Jesus, I'm Thankful
Straight Street
Mother Bowed
The Old Rugged Cross
Something Within Me
A Soldier's Plea
Satisfied With Jesus
My Old Home
Jesus Met The Woman At The Well
What A Blessing In Jesus I've Found
I Want My Crown
God Shall Wipe All Tears Away
Weary Traveler
I'll Tell It
He Will Remember Me
Lord, Help Me Carry On
Now Lord (Yes, My Lord)
Lord, Hold My Hand

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One of the classic Gospel Quartets.......2006-03-03

Bill Worthington was a coal miner from eastern Kentucky who also sang with a gospel quartet. He tells the story of the time his group got to play on a program headlined by the great Pilgrim Travelers. Bill's group were local favorites and got to go on next to last, just before the Travelers. They were rehearsed, ready and looking good and played a strong set, confident that they could show the famous Pilgrim Travelers something. They closed with an original, their signature song, to thunderous applause from the local audience. Then the Pilgrim Travelers took the stage. They came out singing Bill's original song, doing it Bill's way - word for word, note for note, harmony for harmony. Then at the turn-around after the first verse, they shifted gears and sang the same verse again, this time rocking it Pilgrim Traveler's style. The audience went wild and the mighty Pilgrim Traveler's soared on from there.

Studio CD's can't capture the magic of nights like that, but there is some fine music here. Take "Something Within Me", which the Travelers make into an exercise in gradually building intensity over repetition, sort of the way Ravel did with his "Bolero". The bass is a constantly repeated lower register chant at a walking tempo "Oh my, lordy lord. Oh my, lordy lord." Switching leads pick up the intensity from a mellow beginning until the turn-around before the last verse reaches a crescendo of chord voicings climbing the scale, each louder and higher then before, climaxing when that bass chant sweeps up a full octave for the last verse and a scorching new lead (Kylo Turner? Keith Barber?) sails in at full roar. It's a moment that will bring you out of your chair with the hair on the back of your neck standing up. Awesome stuff.

Full of Spirit!!!!.......2000-08-11

This is one of my favorite cds by the Pilgrim Travelers, I've always loved their music, their style and their annointing. Their songs are so full of the Holy Ghost, I can't sit still while listening to it...

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1. I Was There When the Spirit Came
2. Blessed Be the Name
3. Standing on the Highway
4. Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb
5. I've Got a Mother Gone Home
6. Jesus, I'm Thankful
7. Straight Street
8. Mother Bowed
9. Old Rugged Cross
10. Something Within Me
11. Soldier's Plea
12. Satisfied With Jesus