The Spirituals as B.B. King’s 4th Crown LP, recorded in 1959 as a dedicated gospel album. The song selection literally represents a greatest hits package of the time, ranging from classics such as ‘Precious Lord’ and ‘Swing Low Sweet Chariot’ to no less than 6 staples from the repertoire of the highly respected 5 Blind Boys of Mississippi. …
Nine very courageous and gifted young Americans who in 1871, six years after the civil war, set off from nashville, Tennessee, not to cross the Rockies or sail round the Horn, but to save a failing university that meant everything to them. They were the Jubilee Singers from Fisk University heading north on a first tour. All but …
The Blind Boys of Alabama started singing together way back in 1939. A mere 6+ decades later, the legendary gospel group recorded this Grammy-winning album for Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records, their second of three Grammy winning albums for the label.Showing no sign of coming off the gas in their autumn years, Higher Ground is a gutsy, impassioned …
Mavis Staples, who marched and sang and protested alongside Dr. Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960 s, saw her steadfast dedication to equality and unwavering sense of hope validated on Tuesday, Nov. 4th 2008. She writes: “To come up in a time when there was slavery, racism, the KKK, and Jim Crow, I’m …
2008 Inspirational album from the Soul/Pop diva. As soulful as she is sophisticated in her distinctive vocal stylings, five-time Grammy-winning superstar Dionne Warwick is a globally beloved music icon and humanitarian. Warwick first climbed the charts in 1962 with her debut hit single, ‘Don’t Make Me Over’, penned by Burt Bacharach and Hal David-she emerged as the foremost …
2008 release of The Williams Brothers’ album, Journey Continues. The group was organized in 1960 by Leon “Pop” Williams, founder and father of The Williams Brothers. They were known as the Little Williams Brothers, but as the group grew in talent, experience, and performance, the name changed to the Sensational Williams Brothers. Today the group is simply called …
Founded in Nashville in the 1940s as a young, black gospel group, the Fairfield Four toured extensively and performed live on the radio. With the dropping-off of live radio programs in 1950, several group members went on to form the Skylarks, and then finally disbanded. Through the efforts of Doug Seroff, specialist in black gospel music, the group …
Digitally remastered collection from the Gospel quintet featuring two very rare golden age gospel LPs, reissued on CD for the first time: Father I Stretch My Hands to Thee and Precious Time. Both albums have been collectors’ items for many years. The dynamic call-and-response vocals, laced with Archie Brownlee’s searing screams which would influence countless soul singers, served …