Your Favorite Gospel Blues?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Oct 01 - 07:51 AM

Yeah!

Fire = Holy Spirit

So, Pentecostal?

~S~

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 02:46 PM

I'm enjoying a new e-mail correspondence with Jerry Zolten, and I look forward to meeting Jerry at the upcoming Folk College weekend at Clarion College, PA where he will present a lecture on the Dixie Hummingbirds (!!!!).

It turns out that Jerry produces the Fairfield Four. He writes that he has just done a special solo project with Isaac "Dickie" Freeman, the Four's bass singer, titled Beautiful Stars. Jerry said that the CD "treads a fine line between blues and gospel." Quoting from the website linked above, Zolten, a communications professor at Penn State University, was the person who spearheaded the Fairfield Four's return to recording in the '80s, after folk historian Doug Seroff reunited the original version of the pre-1950 quartet for a gospel festival.

When Beautiful Stars was originally released on the Dead Reckoning label, the indie release garnered rave reviews in the mainstream press... Such acclaim brought the album to the attention of Lost Highway, which had released the O Brother soundtrack. The label decided to re-release the album, thereby providing the commercial clout that its association with Universal Music can bring....

Hear sound samples and an interview HERE.

Wotta world!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 02:58 PM

Gary Davis or Terry/Mcghee - Beautiful City Leadbelly - Meeting At The Building.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: Angie
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 05:34 PM

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: Angie
Date: 17 Apr 02 - 05:36 PM

The soundstrack to " Oh Brother Where Art Thou" is fab.

Subject: Sister Shirley Gospel Blues
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 09:36 PM

Archived audio/video live concert at the Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage:

SISTER SHIRLEY

~S~

Subject: Sister Shirley Online Concert Track List
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 11:12 PM

For above concert, here are the songs included. Times are approximate.

00:00 Do Lord
04:40 Remarks about blues, gospel, blues gospel, and Dorsey
05:30 I'll Fly Away
10:20 Jesus on the Mainlie
15:40 Going Over the Hill (also recorded by Mahalia Jackson)
Sounds like it must be a spiritual; chorus alternating with familar floating verses
21:55 Glory Glory, Hallelujah (Since I Laid My Burden Down) Did you ever notice the tune is "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"????
27:00 If It Wasn't for the Lord, Where Would I Be? (He's Everything to Me)
32:20 I Belong to the Band, Hallelu (made famous by Gary Davis) Features the guitar player and GREAT camera shots of delta blues picking style
36:30 Just a Closer Walk With Thee. She says it's a New Orleans song, and that she also does it sometimes Dixieland Style.
41:10 I Shall Not Be Moved
44:30 You Got to Move
48:50 When the Saints Go Marching In
54:00 Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning (a spiritual)

~Susan

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 10:27 AM

Has anyone mentioned The Blind Boys of Alibama?


Raptor

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 11:00 AM

We just went to hear the Blind Boys Of Alabama, Rap..

Jerry

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: Roberto
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 12:46 PM

The Soul of a man, by Blind Willie Johnson (and his wordless Dark Was The Night). Can somebody post the text of The Soul of a Man?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: Raptor
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 01:01 PM

Jerry was it awwsome?
Raptor

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: GUEST,stumd3
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 02:47 PM

ANYTHING by Washington Phillips. He is a soulful man and his recordings are among my most favorite by anyone. Also, of course, Blind Willie Johnson positively sends shivers.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 04:22 PM

RE: Blind Boys of Alabama-- please continue that part of this discussion HERE, where you will find a nice surprise waiting for you in about a half hour! :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: GUEST,reggie miles
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 08:11 PM

From Atlantic records, now available on cd, a Blind Willie McTell recording called, "Atlanta Twelve String", has some of my favorite gospel songs, like, "I Got To Cross The River Jordan", "Ain't It Grand to Live a Christian", "Pearly Gates", "You Got To Die". Sung and played by Willie alone, they comprise half of a very unique recording. The rest of what's there might be best described as "devil's music", featuring songs like, "The Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues", "Kill It Kid", "Motherless Children", "Broke Down Engine". This is one of favorite recordings.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: Brian Hoskin
Date: 29 Jan 04 - 08:32 AM

Here you go Roberto

The Soul of a Man - Blind Willie Johnson

I'm going to ask the question
Please answer if you can
Is there anybody's children can tell me
What is the soul of a man?


Won't somebody tell me
Answer if you can
Won't somebody tell me
Tell me what is the soul of a man?


I've travelled different countries
Travelled to the furthest lands
Couldn't find nobody could tell me
What is the soul of a man


Won't somebody tell me
Answer if you can
Won't somebody tell me
Tell me what is the soul of a man?


I saw a crowd stand talking
I just came up in time
Was teaching the lawyers and the doctors
That a man ain't nothing but his mind


Won't somebody tell me
Answer if you can
Won't somebody tell me
Tell me what is the soul of a man?


I read the Bible often
I try to read it right
As far as I can understand
It's nothing but a burning light


Won't somebody tell me
Answer if you can
Won't somebody tell me
Tell me what is the soul of a man?


When Christ taught in the temple
The people all stood amazed
Was teaching the lawyers and the doctors
How to raise a man from the grave


Won't somebody tell me
Answer if you can
Won't somebody tell me
Tell me what is the soul of a man?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: Roberto
Date: 29 Jan 04 - 09:41 AM

Thank you very much, Brian. I used to have a booklet, from a Folkways lp devoted to Blind Willie Johnson, but I've lost it. Do you know, or somebody knows, if Blind Willie Johnson's texts are available, on line or printed?

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jan 04 - 10:05 AM

Roberto,

They ARE, but I think they come from the perenially-inaccessible Harry's Blues. I have the gospel ones, maybe all of them. PM me an email address and I'll look around.

~S~

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jan 04 - 10:27 AM

Mine are all mixrd in now with other stuff-- no separate folder as I had hoped.

Harry's US, UK, and German sites are all unavailable at the moment.

www.harptab.com/lyrics/a16.shtml has:
Bye And Bye, Goin' To See The King
God Don't Never Change
God Moves On The Water
In My Time Of Dyin'
It's Nobody's Fault But Mine
Jesus Is Coming
Lord, I Just Can't Keep From Crying
Mother's Children Have A Hard Time
Soul Of A Man

www.coversproject.com/artist/Blind+Willie+Johnson lists songs he's covered and his songs that others have covered.

hotburrito.20m.com/blues/blindwilliejohnson.html has bio, discography, and songlist.

~S~

Subject: Blind Willie Johnson Songs
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Jan 04 - 10:46 AM

By And By I'm Going To See The King ~ John The Revelator ~ Let Your Light Shine On Me ~ Lord I Just Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes ~ Nobody's Fault But Mine ~ Trouble'll Soon Be Over are all at http://home.t-online.de/home/alexx/enter.htm.

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE ON ME and MOTHERLESS CHILDREN are here already in the DT. A lot of oothers are in the threads, with discussion.

Oh, I just found what I had. There are four documents, from various sources, and with vcaryoing amounts of detail (album source etc.). The contents would need to be compared before posting them. Then they would need to be compared with threads to avoid duplication.

If you would like my files I'll be glad to send them. If you want to take on posting what's missing here and indexing all of them at Mudcat, you'd need to contact Joe Offer for instructions on how to proceed.

Me, I just use what's on my 'puder or in the DT and threads as I need them when I want to work up a specific song.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: M.Ted
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 11:48 AM

There is a new musical touring, called "Crowns", based on the book of the same name, that is about the lives, dreams, and aspirations of a group of black church women, presented by way of a discussion of the hats that they wear to church. The music is all gospel, (including many of those sung by Sister Shirley) and is absolutely incredible--Was in Atlanta, is in DC now(but sold out) and will open in Chicago in March--

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 12:05 PM

I'm really diggin' these guys a lot, right now.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: Justa Picker
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 12:07 PM

Try this link instead.

Subject: Sacred Steel, online concert link and songlist
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Jan 04 - 01:58 PM

See and hear a later blues gospel style HERE, in an online concert (aud/vid) at the Kennedy Center's Millenium Stage.

The Campbell Brothers (with vocalists Katie Jackson and Denise Brown) showcase sacred steel guitar as evolved in the Church of God (Holiness Pentecostal). The sound of this group is more urban-blues.... the intro remarks do not specifically label this as blues gospel, but you will think sometimes you're hearing BB King.

The two steel guitars emulate vocalizations you might have heard in the spirituals that underlie this genre. There is also spontaneous, Spirit-filled dancing where you can see what evolved from the "shouts" of the spirituals.

The Campbell Brothers create a unique, steel-guitar driven music, dubbed 'sacred steel', that's a soul-stirring blend of gospel, electric blues and rock. From the Library of Congress' series, Homegrown: The Music of America.

The Campbell Brothers, Chuck, Phil, and Darick, are an anointed group of accomplished guitarists with instruments tuned to the key of the Holy Spirit. These musicians were raised in the "sacred steel" style, a rare music tradition rooted in the African-American Holiness-Pentecostal church, commonly known as the House of God. The steel guitar was introduced to church services by Willie Eason in the late 1930s. His single string passages that imitated the African-American singing and shouting voices remain the signature sound of the Keith Dominion steel guitar style. The goal of a good steel player in the church is to use the guitar to mimic voices, to sing lines of the hymns, and to provide praise music that pushes the congregation closer to feeling the Holy Spirit.

Songs included, track times and titles approximate:

00:02 Remarks about steel guitars in church music
02:45 I Feel Good (Something about the Name of Jesus makes me feel good)
07:02 I'll Fly Away [with steel solo]
13:27 Didn't It Rain? [with scat singing]
18:23 Summertime (Miles Davis) [Instr.]
23:18 Put a Little Love in Your Heart
28:00 (Hallelujah) The Storm is Passing Over
35:15 (We'll) Understand It Better/(By & By) Going to See the King) [instr/dance ending]
41:45 Instrumental duet ending for above track [bass & treble leads on two steel guitars]
43:00 I'm Going Home on the Morning Train/Get Right Church Let's Go Home [train effects]
50:08 Pass Me Not (o Gentle Savior)[pedal intro]
58:30 Remarks, "praise music" (Spirit dancing)
59:22 Jump for Joy [instrumental]

~Susan

Subject: Arch radio: God Moves On The Water
From: wysiwyg
Date: 02 Feb 04 - 03:57 PM

Hear another version of Blind Willie's song God Moves On The Water, performed by Dave Moore and Radoslav Lorkovic, archived on A Prairie Home Companion.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Jun 05 - 12:29 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 10:19 AM

Stewie's recommended song above (Rev. Charlie Jackson: Wrapped Up and Tangled Up in Jesus) can be heard on this archived program:

WFMU

They have a GREAT search function.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 10:49 AM

Hear Rev. Edward W. Clayborn: Jesus Is Sweeter Than Honey in the Comb for some wonderful guitar work! Program archived here:

WFMU, thanks to their great search feature.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Jul 06 - 10:52 AM

And at the link just above, the next song also in that program:

Reverend Charlie Jackson: What a Time

~Susan

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 04:12 PM

I have een trying to help edit a decent article on Wikipedia about the origins of, history of and noted practitioners of the Sacred Steel musical Tradtion. if anyone would like to help, here is a link to the article stub:

Sacred Steel (musical tradition) Wikipedia stub

YOu do not have to be a registered memer of Wikipedia to make edits but registration is free. If you do register, you can join any one of the various music projects that exist there or just skip around and edit what you like. If you need help with formatting, let me know via PM.

To make new sub headings you use this

==what you want heading to read==

That's about all you really need to know for basic editing. Citing sources is a bit more complicated. There are several ways to to do it. The easiest is:
[web-adddy of site_title of article]

I can then change the ref formula a little to make automatic lists of the sources.

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: Tweed
Date: 13 Oct 06 - 05:26 PM

I got a copy of "God's Got it" here a while back.
Reverend Jackson passed away last summer sometime.

Case Quarter

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: marlin
Date: 24 Mar 07 - 04:57 PM

Check this out! Blind Willie Johnson-The Biography, see the lyrics at http://www.lulu.com/content/704585

Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
From: TinDor
Date: 11 Nov 10 - 01:58 PM

Rev Gary Davis "If I Had My Way"