White spirituals came out of the great revival periods of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when worshipers needed more personal, intense music. Folk hymns and religious ballads like "Amazing Grace" and "Wayfaring Stranger" put religious texts to secular tunes. Camp-meeting spirituals like "Wondrous Love" have simpler texts, frequent repetitions, refrains, and inserted tag lines: they're easily taught by "lining out." Often using old-fashioned modal or gapped scales, they were published in shape-note books and were sung mostly in rural areas. The sample here is from "Lonely Tombs" off Prestige International's documentary album, Southern White Spirituals. (AU Format) (Real Audio Format)