Anthology of American Folk Music
Volume 2: Social Music, Track 54

SHINE ON ME
Ernest Phipps and His Holiness Singers

Recorde Bristol, TN: November 29, 1928
Ernest Phipps and congregation, vocal,  group vocal with fiddle, guitar, banjo, and piano
Originally released on Bluebird 5640A
 

Ernest Phipps and his congregation were from a holiness church in Kentucky. An Anglo-American church, the type of holiness denomination they belonged to is unknown. Their first recordings were made on July 21, 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee, shortly before the Carter Family made their famous debut.


FOR ADDITIONAL RECORDINGS of Phipps see: Country Gospel Song (FW RBF19C); The Bristol Sessions (CMH 011c); Mountain Sacred Songs (CTY 508a); Bessie Johnson 1928-1929 (HER 202a); Oh My Little Darling (NW 245a); Old Time Music from Kentucky (RND 1037a); and Music from Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics, 1927-1937 (YZ 2013c).

OTHER RECORDED VERSIONS include:
Gospel: as Let it Shine: Lead Belly (SF 40044c); The Mighty Supreme Voices (SVY 14549a).

Blues: as Let Your Light Shine on Me: Blind Willie Johnson (YZ 1078c, COL 52835c).