SongEra: Jim Crow

None But the Righteous

Name: None But the Righteous
Description: Traditional gospel refrain ("none but the righteous shall see God") of unknown composer, first documented in a 1960 Alan Lomax field recording of the…

c. 1960(Approximate date)· Traditional (artist)

Artist: Traditional
Genre: gospel

Traditional gospel refrain ("none but the righteous shall see God") of unknown composer, first documented in a 1960 Alan Lomax field recording of the Church of God and Saints of Christ choir at Belleville, Virginia.

Sources & citations

1.mississippirecords.bandcamp.comwebsite
2.archive.culturalequity.orgwebsite
3.en.wikipedia.orgwikipedia
4.hymnary.orgwebsite