I'm So Glad I got Good Religion (The Gospel Thread)

[mrselvig]

Has anyone started down the Pewburner road? Probably a filthier habit than taking up crack smoking: http://pewburner.com/products.html

[MRS]

Damn, I'd just have to throw a couple darts, would love some pointers from that massive list. And it looks like that's the most efficient way to pick up those tremendous Acrobats (http://pewburner.com/links.html).

[fearandpanic]

An epic Tessie Hill track, "I Must Tell Jesus" from Think About It (1976).

[leroysghost]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xe4NGQd3uY

for the non download inclined.

[mrselvig]

The Rev. Douglas Bell's Nuclear Blast LP, reissued by Big Legal Mess, is a fine one. "The Bitter and the Sweet," available as an MP3 on the label's site, is fantastic (listen carefully for the crazy Sun Ra-style keboards low in the mix!)

My neighborhood goes kinda nuts for Hallowe'en - one house puts out a full mounted horse skeleton with horse-drawn carriage for decorations - and I noted one house was blasting really good music (Stooges, Sonics, Hank Williams, Throbbing Gristle...) so I introduced myself to that guy while taking the kids trick-or-treating. He turned out to be a really nice guy with an insanely great record collection, and yet he bathes and exercises. He loaned me the fine comp Detroit Blues Volume 3: Blues Shouters and Gospel Moaners. The gospel content's excellent - Brother Will Hairston's "Alabama Bus" is now a fave secular-topic gospel tune, and all of the Hairston tracks have superb and unusual percussion work.

[mudd]

http://bap-tizum.com/

amazing.

m

[niwi]

http://bap-tizum.com/

amazing.

m

what a great site!

[faster]

Oh man. Wow.

[jon abbey]

I want the credit for sending mark there earlier this evening. it's from ben hall's FB page, I'm not sure if he actually runs it or just thinks it's awesome.

[mudd]

yeah, sorry, didn't want to embellish the post any further but jon did indeed push that my way. stream, download, photos, oh man.

m

[vienna1896]

Very happy to find this thread, fantastic to read everyones recommendations. Here's a few of my favourites.

Various - I Have My Liberty! Gospel Sounds From Accra, Ghana
Various - Negro Religious Field Recordings (1934-1942)
Various - Noah Found Grace: Jamaican Gospel Music from the 1960s - 70s (There is a second in this series that i've yet to hear)
Various - Sacred Steel - Traditional Sacred African-American Steel Guitar Music In Florida
Various - Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music And Photography 1890-1950
Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth For Christ Choir - Like a Ship...(Without A Sail)
The Bronzemen - Radio Transcriptions
Shirley Ann Lee - Songs of Light
The Harmonizing Four - Old Time Religon
Bessie Jones & Group - the Buzzard Loop, I have loads of different versions of this taken from culturalequity.org. There's an incredible recording of this on youtube http://youtu.be/3dGamWaYcLg
Glossolalia: Speaking In Tongues from Ubuweb http://www.ubu.com/ethno/soundings/gloss.html
There's also a great "c90 edit" of Goodbye Babylon on soulseek.

[mudd]

50 miles of elbow room recently put out two albums of reverend charlie jackson. haven't heard yet, but i have high hopes.

m