A repost for our LOLThe organ swells in the background and it is once again time for our Sunday service with Deacon KC. This morning I bring you an eminently listenable collection of artists well familiar here by now. I really haven't bothered to check to see how much overlap we have with previous sets, as I dance around my room this morning with tears of joy on my cheeks I find I just don't care...
NO TEARS IN HEAVEN: GREAT GOSPEL brings together 22 classic recordings by the world's most celebrated gospel artists including Mahalia Jackson, The Five Blind Boys of Alabama, The Staple Singers, Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers, Swan Silverton, The Caravans, and The Violinaires, among others.
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I have downloaded this but adhering to a convention, that you inadvertently established, I'll listen to it later this morning during what used to be church hours for my family every Sunday. For now, I'm being entertained by B. B, King singing the devil's music and didn't even have to go to the crossroads at midnight to download the last few days of wonderful posts. Thanks what a great week of listening to stave off the coldness of incoming Winter.
Thanks KC
I usually by-pass the Gospel posts - I know the singing is beyond ! But I'm a non-believer so can't always sympathize with the message - But track 1 was a soulful gem and a great performance so this ex-choir boy says thanks - Amen
Thanks for this compilation! I have some of the tracks, but it is always interesting listening to hear them combined with others. Sister O.M. Terrell is a great one!
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I long ago stopped bypassing these gospel selections; the talent and voices are too compelling. Moreover, as a devout agnostic, I sat myself down after an insightful Poppachubby E-mail from north of the 49th parallel, and thought how is it that I can, without reservation, listen to Rastafarian chants, Christian music in Amharic or via Gregorian chants, klezmer and Sephardic music, religious music in Hindi, Sanskrit, Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, Lakota, Navajo, and Tibetan, and appreciate the artistry of it all (conceding that I have weird taste to any that wonder) but, because of fourteen years in the pews, the military discipline of catechism classes ministered by Sister Mary Army Sergeant, the hypocrisy of many in the religious orders at my high school and college, and ten years' residence in the buckle of the Bible Belt, as well as a deep aversion to the re-emergence of religion in politics (the early history of my home state of Massachusetts, expulsion of the Jews from a newly unified Catholic Spain in 1492 (and, too, subsequent expulsion from Portugal), and the post-reformations religious wars that haunted Europe for a couple of centuries are Exhibit A in my indictment of that phenomenon), almost instinctively reject the sincerity, enthusiasm, and joy expressed in gospel music? After all, I enjoy the blues without desiring to drink canned heat or alcohol, meet the devil at the crossroads at midnight, or adopt misogynist attitudes about women that are inherent in so much of the blues and rock music that I have enjoyed for decades. Nope, nearing the end of my sixth decade, I had to concede that Deacon Kingcake had succeeded in taking me to the river. After all, even Richie Havens and Hard Meat performed the Shaker hymn, Run Shaker Life, so embracing religious diversity in music, I learned to listen anew and allowed Deacon Kingcake to become the Thomas A. Dorsey of New Orleans and take my hand.
Thanks to modern obstetrics being the medical science that it is and my mother's success on her initial effort to birth me, I have been born only once but have come to love Le Roi's Sunday focus on this music all the same. I have always recognized what a soulful power Mahalia Jackson was but then I am old enough to remember her magnificent performances at civil rights' events; however, Deacon Kingcake you have successfully lured me into enjoying the majesty of great gospel and commenters like Little Ol' Lady and Poppachubby have contributed to the epiphany. Thanks to y'all and I am re-enjoying this collection as someone who knows little about the genre and its performers, but enjoys it with my ears and gut.
I like it too
Oh Wee...... Great music....
Wayne
Missed these first time around...
Sem link!!!
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