@ Online // Facebook Starting out humbly by broadcasting from a Chicago car dealership in 1963 and for the next twenty-one years of Sunday mornings, Sid Ordower presented the Emmy award winning Jubilee Showcase , a powerful half-hour of the finest Gospel music America had to offer. Many artists now considered legendary performers from Gospel music's golden age got their start on Ordower's show or made their first televised appearance [...]
Numero Group along with WFMU Radio have made available for free download a collection of 60 songs recorded from 1908 through 1980 that tells the story of the history of recorded music in Chicago. Numero archivist/producer Michael Slaboch gives a little background on the tracks and how the project came together, as well as a complete track listing below. The history of recorded music in Chicago during the 20th century was broad and deep, traversing sonic areas both [...]
( pic via ) More straight-up gospel than last week's , except where it isn't. It keeps an eye on the afterlife, there's the whiff of a narrative... though I wouldn't pay too much attention to themes or stories as I liberally appropriated any directional intent for the cause. (The Staples' classic is now, of course, about nothing but Chevrolet automobiles.) Not much in the way of brimstone, though it's hard not to admire Reverend Nix' bald contempt for his congregation. Of the belters in these 80 minutes - Coates, Mahalia, that [...]
"Georgia Tom" Dorsey (1899-1993) http://www.georgiaencyclopedia .org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1603 &hl=y http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T homas_A._Dorsey The Rise of Gospel Blues: The Music of Thomas Andrew Dorsey in the Urban Church ISBN-10: 0195090578 Over the last year or so I have been trying to post as much Gospel blues as I could find. I love the intersection between the blues and gospel music. It is really a natural fit for me. Becasue the same people that I saw singing in the church chior on Sunday morning were also just as apt to have been in a juke joint on Saturday [...]
In the latest edition of the Washington Post's Sunday Source, Hamil Harris and Q and Not U's Chris Richards suggest eight gospel "Songs to stir the spirit," as part of this article on where to find good gospel choirs in D.C. Their choices are: F.C. Barnes and Janice Brown - Rough Side Of The Mountain James Cleveland - Peace Be Still (mp3) Thomas Dorsey - Take My Hand, Precious Lord (mp3) Aretha Franklin - Amazing [...]
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