Let Zion Move: Music Of The Shakers

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Album Info

Release Date: 1999

Label: Rounder Select

Let Zion Move contains 40 Shaker spirituals recorded between 1960 and 1980. The music is sung and played by Shaker sisters from Canterbury, New Hampshire and from Sabbathday Lake, Maine.

The narration and interviews on Disc Two are from field recordings made by William M. Randle in 1960, and by Roger L. Hall in 1972 and 1980.