Category: ·Recordings & Media
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KLOF Mag announced the release of a video of an English musician Sam Carter performing a simple acoustic version of “White” from The Sacred Harp. Carter states: Long Time Travelling is better known to some as White, as that’s the name it appears under in shapenote tunebook The Sacred Harp, originally published in 1844. The…
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If you’ve ever tried to explain Sacred Harp singing to someone unfamiliar with it, you know how tricky it can be. Josh Miller’s new short film, What is Sacred Harp?, captures the spirit of this tradition beautifully in just six minutes. Filmed at the 2025 Ohio Sacred Harp Convention, this charming and informative piece features…
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The Sacred Harp Museum has once again done invaluable work in preserving and sharing historical recordings from our tradition. Their latest release—a newly digitized and remastered collection of open reel tapes from Terry Wootten—documents decades of singing in Northeast Alabama, a region deeply tied to Sacred Harp’s living tradition. Spanning from 1962 to 1982, these…
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I have “ripped” DVDs of singings filmed by Nate Green and uploaded some of them to YouTube (with is permission). I used the publicly posted “Minutes,” published by Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association, to give a track listing for the videos. These videos are from the personal collection of Mary Wright, passed on to me…
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We have taken the text from “Chapter 7: Older Recordings (Pre-1977) of Traditional Singers Reissued on CDs and Internet” found on Steven L. Sabol’s terrific internet resource, and I have inserted the appropriate YouTube videos of the albums he describes. We have appended the track listing provided by Jeramiah Ledbetter, who uploaded the videos into…
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Over the weekend, the James River All Day Singing took place. A local singer, Mary P. Wright, had recently passed on and it was announced she wanted singers to have some of her books and recordings. There were only a few books, and many CDs and cassette tapes. I picked up two thin books, and…