Judy Hauff’s How Sweet the Minutes, a 1996 recording of 42 shape-note tunes from Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, is now available for streaming and download on Bandcamp. Originally recorded in 1985 as a personal project to explore Sacred Harp singing, the tapes were later discovered and edited for release. Hauff performs all four vocal…
We have taken the text from “Chapter 7: Older Recordings (Pre-1977) of Traditional Singers Reissued on CDs and Internet” found on Steven L. Sabol’s terrific internet resource, and I have inserted the appropriate YouTube videos of the albums he describes. We have appended the track listing provided by Jeramiah Ledbetter, who uploaded the videos into…