Trav’ling Home. American Spirituals, 1770-1870

Joel Cohen and his Boston Camerata are undoubtedly the greatest specialists of early American music, a repertoire which remains widely unexplored. One year after having revived the largely unknown and almost extinguished shaker culture, the ensemble recorded a beautiful collection of original spirituals from colonial America, revealing the rural roots of Christian music through orally transmitted songs or compositions by William Billings or Jeremiah Ingalls, widely rejected by the growing urban society during the nineteenth century and which felt into neglect.