Toast: A Gospel Mix
( 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 [...]
- Bessie Griffin - Too Close to Heaven
- Bill Carlisle - The Heavenly Train
- Blue Sky Boys - Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
- Bob Dylan - Gotta Serve Somebody
- Dixie Hummingbirds - Testimonial
- Dorothy Love Coates - I Wouldn't Mind Dying
- Goldia Haynes - Oh Lord, How Long?
- Henagar-Union Sacred Harp Convention - Antioch
- Hightower Brothers - Finally Made It In
- Hightower Brothers - Where Could I Go
- Horace Sprott - Jesus Going to Make up My Dying Bed (Excerpt)
- LaVice & Company - Thoughs Were the Days
- Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin - Sanctus
- Low - (That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace
- Mahalia Jackson - I'm on My Way
- Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens - What Have You Done?
- R.H. Harris - Someday
- Rev. A. W. Nix - Black Diamond Express To Hell Pt. II
- Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight - Up Above My Head I Hear Music in the Air
- Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers - That's Heaven to Me (Alt. Take)
- Sister Lottie Peavy - Nobody's Fault But Mine
- Sister Mary M. Nelson - Judgement
- The Brothers & Sisters Gospel Choir - I Shall Be Released
- The John Edwards Singers - New Burying Ground
- The Staple Singers - I'll Take You There
- Thomas A. Dorsey - If You See My Savior




















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