Last minute fill-in for John Tackaberry: A general mix of blues, with a bit of R&B, soul and gospel.
Crazy Mixed Up World Billy Branch and the Sons of Blues - Blues Shock - Blind Pig Records |
Only In It For The Money Jimmy Smith - Dot Com Blues - Blue Thumb Records / Verve (2001) |
Slender Man Blues James Armstrong - Dark Night - HighTone Records |
Skinny Little Woman Bobby Rush with Blinddog Smokin' - Decisions - Silver Talon Records |
Cook my Breakfast Tomcat Courtney - Downsville Blues - Blue Witch Records |
What's Going on in my Home? Luther Allison - Blue Streak - Alligator Records |
Restless Feeling (fade) Carl Weathersby - The Best of - Evidence Records |
Why I Sing the Blues (1969) B.B. King - The Best of - Fame Records (1973, MCA) |
Who Will the Next Fool Be? Bobby 'Blue' Bland - The Voice: Duke Recordings 1959 - 69 - ACE Records |
Open House at my House Z.Z. Hill - The Rhythum & the Blues - Malaco |
Trapped Carl Sims - House of Love - Paula Records |
Childhood Days The Universal Jubileers - Good God!: A Gospel Funk Hymnal - Numero Group (010; 1973) |
This 4-CD set features, as the title describes, electrifying gospel music from this Nashville-based label. Put together by the Tompkins Square team, the same group responsible for the equally impressive 3CD sets of Fire in my Bones: Raw + Rare + Otherwordly African-American Gospel (1944-2007) and This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM (1957-1982); they have exceeded themselves with this compilation.
The four discs are titled as follows: - Disc One: Looking for a Better Place to Live (1951-1957) - Disc Two: Seat in the Kingdom (1958-1963) - Disc Three: Don't Drive Your Children Away (1964-1967) - Disc Four: Heaven, I've Heard So Much About It (1968-1983) |
It's Hard To Get Along (1955) Swanee Quintet - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records |
Seat in the Kingdom (1962) Hightower Brothers - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records |
Time is Winding Up (1964) Maggie Ingram and the Ingramettes - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records |
Everybody Ought to Pray (1969) Bevins Specials - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records |
That's the Spirit (1970) Rev. Willingham and the Swanee Quintet - I Heard the Angels Singing: Electrifying Black Gospel From the Nashboro Label 1951 - 1983 - Tompkins Square Records |
Trouble at Midnight (1954) Roy Brown - Mighty Mighty Man! - ACE / King Records |
"Troubles" - Chicago blues from John & Sylvia Embry first recorded for Razor Records reissued with additional songs by Delmark |
I've Got Two Men Nora Jean Bruso - Going Back to Mississippi - Severn Records |
Troubles Sylvia Embry & John Embry - Troubles - Delmark Records |
I Can't Quit You Baby (Live) Little Milton - Stax Profiles - Stax Records |
Your Turn to Cry Jimmy Johnson Band - x - x |