Blow Gabriel (I)

DESCRIPTION: The leader tells the Archangel Gabriel to blow his trumpet and tell everybody "wherever they be On lan' and sea" ... "that they got to meet"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1942 (Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands)
KEYWORDS: nonballad religious
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Parrish-SlaveSongsOfTheGeorgiaSeaIslands 14, pp. 87-88, "Blow Gabriel" (1 text)
Rosenbaum-ShoutBecauseFree, pp. 110-113, "Blow, Gabriel" (1 text, 1 tune)
RECORDINGS:
Lawrence McKiver and the McIntosh County Shouters, "Blow Gabriel" (on McIntosh1)
Freddie Palmer and The McIntosh County Shouters, "Blow Gabriel" (on McIntoshShouters-RingShoutPresentation)
Georgia Sea Island Singers, "Blow Gabriel (Judgement Day)(I)", St Simon's Island GA, October 1959, Association for Cultural Equity Alan Lomax Collection, ref=T923R11, accessed 19 July 2023 from Lomax Digital Archive at https://archive.culturalequity.org/field-work/southern-us-1959-and-1960/st-simons-island-i-1059/blow-gabriel-i
NOTES [53 words]: The description follows the leader's lines on McIntosh1. The responses to alternate lines are "Judgment" and "Judgment bar." - BS
The Parrish text and Rosenbaum-ShoutBecauseFree/McIntoshShouters-RingShoutSongs text and track are "ring shout" songs. The McIntoshShouters-RingShoutPresentation video shows the shout. - BS
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File: Parr014

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