Sunday evening. Always a good time to turn up the volume and
let the blues of the church push the worries and heartbreaks of the week away.
This collection 15
Down Home Gospel Classics is in essence a blues record, though if you start
on Track 15 (Praise Music) you’d be
forgiven for thinking you’re listening to Alvin
Lee on speed. And as a blues record it is appropriate that all of these
songs are about the Unseen world where all hopes are realized, all wounds bound
up and healed and ecstasy always ready to break loose with a shimmy and
shake.
Whatever and whomever you worship, even if you don’t
worship, this music will touch you and get you moving. Many old hymns and ancient songs of faith and
praise are contained herein, performed by some of America’s greatest blues singers (Fred
and Annie Mae McDowell; Lowell Fulsom, Big Joe Williams and Mance Libscomb) but there are also rare
gems from the likes of Black Ace, a
self taught Texas guitar player, Elder
Roma Williams, part Native American harmonica player/preacherman, and the
one man band, Rev. Louis Overstreet, too.
A great way to end
the weekend. Gritty, grungy, godly music!
Track
Listing:
01 Just a
Closer Walk With Thee [Aubrey Ghent]
02 There's a Leak In This Old
Building [Paramount Singers]
03 I Want My Crown [Big Joe
Williams]
04 Sinner Don't You Know [Robert
Pete Williams]
05 I Feel Good [The Campbell
Brothers]
06 I'm Going Over the Hill [Annie
Mae and Fred McDowell]
07 Gonna Wait Till a Change Come [Elder
Roma Wilson]
08 Farther Along [Black Ace]
09 I've Got Religion [Rebecca
Smith, Tom Miller and Ruth Miller]
10 Motherless Children [Mance
Lipscomb]
11 Jesus Will Fix It for You
[Sonny Treadway]
12 I'm Working On a Building
[Rev. Louis Overstreet]
13 Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and
Burning [Fred McDowell]
14 Amazing Grace [Jess Fuller]
15 Praise Music [Aubrey Ghent]
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