Louis and the Good Book

Louis and the Good Book is a 1958 jazz and spirituals album by Louis Armstrong.[1]

Louis and the Good Book
Studio album by Louis Armstrong
Released	1958
Genre	Jazz
Label	Decca
Louis Armstrong chronology
Louis and the Angels (1957) Louis and the Good Book (1958) Louis... (1959)

Singles included "I'll String Along with You" / "On My Way (Out on My Traveling Shoes)" 1959, also known as I'm On My Way.[2]

Track listing

1. "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" - 3:03
2. "Shadrack" - 3:00
3. "Go Down Moses" - 3:37
4. "Rock My Soul" - 3:12
5. "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" - 2:43
6. "On My Way" - 3:05
7. "Down by the Riverside" - 3:13
8. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" - 3:10
9. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" - 3:31
10. "Jonah and the Whale" - 2:50
11. "Didn't It Rain" - 2:52
12. "This Train" - 2:31

Extra tracks on CD reissue

1. "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat (With Sy Oliver Chorus)" - 3:18
2. "That's What the Man Said (With Sy Oliver Chorus)" - 2:58
3. "Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven (With The Decca Chorus Dir. By Lyn Murray)" - 2:49
4. "Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen (With The Decca Chorus Dir. By Lyn Murray)" - 3:12
5. "Jonah and the Whale (With The Decca Chorus Dir. By Lyn Murray)" - 2:49
6. "Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Throwing Stones" - 4:22
7. "Elder Eatmore's Sermon on Generosity" - 4:22

References

1. Ilse Storb Jazz Meets the World - The World Meets Jazz 2000 p. 109 "This was followed in 1958 by a musical lament on the poverty, duress and discrimination of his people in the form of a spiritual recording entitled Louis And The Good Book. It contains meaningful and content-laden pieces."
2. Scott Allen Nollen Louis Armstrong: The Life, Music, and Screen Career 2004 Page 142 "On My Way" is a blues with a train-like locomotion and a smokin' solo section featuring Louis and Trummy"