Louis and the Good Book explained

Louis and the Good Book
Type:	studio
Artist:	Louis Armstrong
Cover:	Louis and the Good Book.jpg
Released:	1958
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Decca
Chronology:	Louis Armstrong
Prev Title:	Louis and the Angels
Prev Year:	1957
Next Title:	Louis...
Next Year:	1959

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

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

Notes and 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"