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Rare & Red Hot Gospel

Label: Catfish Records (UK)
Released: 2000
Track listing: Woke Up This Morning (With Jesus On My Mind)- Roosevelt Graves & Brother/ I Belong to the Band Hallelujah- Blind Gary Davis/ I Got Heaven On My Mind- Heavenly Gospel Singers/ John Said He Saw the Number- Arizona Dranes/ Handwriting On the Wall- Blind Joe Taggart/ I Am Born To Preach the Gospel- Washington Phillips/ Drinking Shine- Elder Charles Beck/ I

Various: Rare & Red Hot Gospel

by Derek Taylor
December 1, 2000

Pre-War gospel is one of the most emotively charged forms of expression in the American musical diaspora. There’s something indescribably moving about a singer or congregation shouting out devotion to a higher spirit regardless of denomination. It’s a music that communicates across religious, social and demographic boundaries and can stir the emotions in sanctified and secular ...