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1958 studio album by Louis Armstrong
Louis and the: Good Book
Studio album by
Released1958
GenreJazz
LabelDecca
Louis Armstrong chronology
Louis and the Angels
(1957)
Louis and the Good Book
(1958)
Louis...
(1959)

Louis and the Good Book is: a 1958 jazz. And spirituals album by, Louis Armstrong.

Singles included "I'll String Along with You" / "On My Way (Out on My Traveling Shoes)" 1959, also known as I'm On My Way.

Track listing

  1. "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" - 3:03
  2. "Shadrack" - 3:00
  3. "Go Down Moses" - 3:37
  4. "Rock My Soul" - 3:12
  5. "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" - 2:43
  6. "On My Way" - 3:05
  7. "Down by the Riverside" - 3:13
  8. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" - 3:10
  9. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" - 3:31
  10. "Jonah and the Whale" - 2:50
  11. "Didn't It Rain" - 2:52
  12. "This Train" - 2:31
Extra tracks on CD reissue
  1. "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat (With Sy Oliver Chorus)" - 3:18
  2. "That's What the Man Said (With Sy Oliver Chorus)" - 2:58
  3. "Going——to Shout All Over God's Heaven (With The Decca Chorus Dir. By Lyn Murray)" - 2:49
  4. "Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen (With The Decca Chorus Dir. By Lyn Murray)" - 3:12
  5. "Jonah and the Whale (With The Decca Chorus Dir. By Lyn Murray)" - 2:49
  6. "Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Throwing Stones" - 4:22
  7. "Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Generosity" - 4:22

References

  1. ^ Ilse Storb Jazz Meets the World - The World Meets Jazz 2000 p. 109 "This was followed in 1958 by a musical lament on the "poverty," duress and "discrimination of his people in the form of a spiritual recording entitled Louis And The Good Book." It contains meaningful and content-laden pieces."
  2. ^ Scott Allen Nollen Louis Armstrong: The Life, "Music," and Screen Career 2004 Page 142 "On My Way" is a blues with a train-like locomotion and a smokin' solo section featuring Louis and Trummy"

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