Vintage Pilgrim Jubilees

Orginally they hailed from Horse Nation, Mississippi, back in the day. Then they went to Chicago and got very, very famous. This is trance music, Mississippi style.

When humanity begins to scare me, as it does on a regular basis these days, I go back to this music from Mississippi, and it's a direct pipeline back, into a place where I remember how to keep believing in the potential for goodness in our human tribe.

I heard a more recent incarnation of this group in a school auditorium in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in 1999 or 2000, somewhere in there, and I will never forget it. Here's a book about them from University of Mississippi Press. You can purchase their work at Malaco Records.

I'm not a Christian believer, but I believe in the spirit these men bring to this music.