| 8th September 2006 12:36 AM |
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| Barney Fife |
My gospel collection ain't complete. I only have Sister Rosetta on one compilation. What are some must haves to add to my collection from this wonderful singer?
Thanks,
Wild Bill
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| 8th September 2006 08:25 AM |
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| Nasty Habits |
Barney, if you only need 18 tracks, Gospel of the Blues is just friggin' excellent - killer, from beginning to end - good sound, smokin' guitar, great songs, singing, joy, god. All for about 10 bucks.
But if you want to go up another $15 bucks or so you can get 80 tracks worth of guitar slinging gospel wailing madness on the Original Soul Sister box, which includes everything on Gospel of the Blues, some secular stuff with Lucky Millinder Orchestra, a live track or two .
Knowing you're a music nut, if I were you I'd just go ahead and throw down. It's worth it.
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| 10th September 2006 11:16 AM |
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| Barney Fife |
Thank you very much, Nasty Habits. Since I am a music nut I better get both of them!
Glad you are a music nut too!!
I figured there'd be at least one person on this board who knew classic gospel music!
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| 10th September 2006 12:35 PM |
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| Water Dragon |
Hey there fellow originator lovers - Do either of you have anything by Reverend J. M. Gates?
Unfortunately,...I only have one track on a compilation CD, "Walk Right In" entitled, "Somebody's Been Stealin' I would like to hear more...his cadence the fact that he is the grandson of a slave...very "down home" and so obviously the root sound.
Let me know the place to go on the web to get it if you have any ideas...
Gracias!
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| 15th September 2006 09:51 AM |
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| Barney Fife |
I see one album on amazon.com for Rev. Gates:
Here's the allmusic.com article on him:
Biography by John Bush
The Baptist preacher J.M. Gates was one of the most prolifically recorded black artists of the early century, with over 200 sides on wax between the mid-'20s and his death in 1940 (he once recorded 23 titles in a week, at just two sessions). His sermons and musical numbers appeared on a variety of labels (Victor, Bluebird, Okeh, Gennett), though Gates often re-recorded his most popular sermons — "Death's Black Train Is Coming," "Oh Death Where Is Thy Sting," "Goin' to Die with the Staff in My Hands" — for multiple labels. Born in 1885, Gates ministerd at Atlanta's Calvary Church and first recorded in 1926. Beginning in April, he recorded almost 100 sides by the end of the year. Understandably, his output slowed slightly during the rest of the late '20s, and the advent of the Great Depression resulted in a four-year period off records. He returned in 1934, and recorded about 20 more sides until his death in 1941. Experts estimate that Gates recorded at least a quarter of all the sermons that appeared before 1943.
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