DOWN IN THE RIVER TO PRAY
Created on 06/09/2016Latest update on 06/09/2016
Artist: Price Family Sacred Singers
Author: traditional
Label: Okeh
Year: 1927
Was also an Underground Railroad song. Oldest version published as The Good Old Way in Slave Songs Of The US (1867), crediting C.H. Allen.
Covers:
- 1940:
- 1966:
- 2000:
Alison Krauss [in film O Brother, Where Art Thou?]
- 2005:
- 2009:
- 2014:
Noah Gundersen [as Poor Man's Son]
