The Gospel Music Appreciation Thread

[oldunc]

And for lovers of contrasts;

 

[oldunc]

This was a really nice album from Grant Green;

 

[oldunc]

I was lucky enough to see the Reverend Davis play live;

 

[Gardo]

This is typical of the music I grew up listening to.

 

[oldunc]

 

[oldunc]

Nice Irish girl shows once again that she can sing everything thing as well as anybody sings anything. She also wrote the tune, as she does most of her material.

 

[Vibroluxer]

And for lovers of contrasts;

That's some organ playing on the Soul Stirrers cut Thanks for sharing it.

 

[oldunc]

Steel guitar has become something of a backroad of gospel music; here with a fine vocal from Denise Brown;

 

[elihu]

The Stanley Brothers with Bill Napier on guitar.

 

[elihu]

Can't go wrong with these two.

 

[elihu]

Allison Krauss and her amazingly pure voice.

 

[elihu]

When I first heard Gillian back in 1996 I couldn't believe she was new.

Some of her songs sound like they're 100 years old.

 

[telemnemonics]

Oh Hell Yeah!

(Sorry Lord)

Gospel as I think of it: I guess poor Black Southern church music done well enough for some city slicker to roll tape?
As essential to the great American musics as Blues, or inseparable from those American music origins.

I fall into the group that fits the walkin in Memphis line: "Man I am tonight"!
No need to have a mean mean woman in order to dig the Blues either, and hell, got no proof one way or the other...

At times I just have to sing out "Oh Happy Day/ when Jesus washed".
Or a couple of others including an obscure "Im gonna sit down at the welcome table".

 

[telekaster1999]

Anything Kenny Hinson sings. I could go on and on about why I think he's the greatest but I digress. Enjoy.

 

[haggardfan1]

This has to be my favorite.

 

[elihu]

Or a couple of others including an obscure "Im gonna sit down at the welcome table".

Maybe "I'm gonna eat at the welcome table?"

 

[bottlenecker]

Oh Hell Yeah!

(Sorry Lord)

Gospel as I think of it: I guess poor Black Southern church music done well enough for some city slicker to roll tape?

This is a trope, and inaccurate.
It was a lot more constructed and calculated in it's creation than people assume, and the people who created it had agency and power, even if not enough.

Thomas A. Dorsey - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[elihu]

Same river, different song.

Paul Yandell on guitar.

 

[Vibroluxer]

I'm not a believer, but come on, these tunes. Great choices above.

Have we really made it to #40 without her? May've missed one above. THE gospel singer for this guy.



This guy surely dabbled



Him too



Why not

It's hard to beat Mahalia and Otis. Wonder if they ever recorded together?

 

[elihu]

I really like the more primitive songs.