Gospel music

[Dannyhood91]

As one of the freaks who liked Kanyes new album and already had a mild interest in gospel anyway, what's some really good upbeat gospel to listen to?

Praise the lord and all them other mandem etc

[Bobby Treetops]

God bothering at its best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ8evLdiubs

Also I can highly recommend the gospel compilations on the The Numero Group label.

Fill yeah holy boots

https://open.spotify.com/album/5xmgyTA4AlPBTYzOAmlMzM?si=s5GW3o6nRAC5UBh7PQD1IQ

[Sebastian Cobb]

Film's amazing as well. I went twice.

[chveik]

old school stuff:

the compilation "Gospel Vol. 1- Negro Spirituals & Gospel Songs 1926-1942"

Mahalia Jackson

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

[non capisco]

Also I can highly recommend the gospel compilations on the The Numero Group label.
Fill yeah holy boots
https://open.spotify.com/album/5xmgyTA4AlPBTYzOAmlMzM?si=s5GW3o6nRAC5UBh7PQD1IQ

Seconded. Tons of funky killers on those. There's a track on one of them when it sounds like they start chanting 'E-Bay!' which always makes me chuckle.

[Dannyhood91]

God bothering at its best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ8evLdiubs

Also I can highly recommend the gospel compilations on the The Numero Group label.

Fill yeah holy boots

https://open.spotify.com/album/5xmgyTA4AlPBTYzOAmlMzM?si=s5GW3o6nRAC5UBh7PQD1IQ

That first track is very Sly Stone!

[Sin Agog]

Washington Phillips is one of my favourites.  Dude even invented his own chiming guitar which made his songs sound like they were issued from some heavenly ice cream van.

Thirding A Funky Gospel Hymnal.  Also a comp called Fire In My Bones.

I upped a track a few years ago from a comp called American Primitive Vol 2: Pre-War Revenants which features thee most eerie and otherworldly vocal performance I've heard on record, by a dude named Homer Smith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWHW2F7os1k (That comp features peoples who'd go up onstage at their local town hall or church as part of a sorta old-fashioned version of an open mic night, and sometimes lay down something totally unique, before disappearing into the night).

Staple Singers' Uncloudy Day is the best straight-up gospel long-player.  Has this weird echoplexy vibe I've never heard anywhere else.

I also really love the gospel section of Harry Smith's seminal Anthology of American Folk Music comp.  All the folk stuff from the 'weird, old America' sounds so much better nestled against gospel groups like the Golden Gate Choir.  Goodbye, Babylon covers much of the same era but focuses exclusively on gospel.

(Scheize, didn't notice the word upbeat in the OP).

[chveik]

Rev. Gary Davis  - Death Don't Have No Mercy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPh7EbB1Tw

Blind Willie Johnson - John the Revelator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hucTDV1Fvo

[Bobby Treetops]

Any chance to post this again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI-qwIzLFaw

"And on backing vocals...Homer Simpson"

[hillbillyholiday]

Great stuff! A couple more holy rollers...

The Golden Gate Quartet were one of the first groups to take gospel into the nightclubs. This later performance is just wonderful.

Elder Burch rocked the church, inspiring the young Dizzy Gillespie among others. This one from 1927 is a real Lazarus-raiser.


_{(Not technically gospel, but those Baptazia - Super Sunday vids never get old.)}

[alan nagsworth]

Any chance to post this again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI-qwIzLFaw

"And on backing vocals...Homer Simpson"

hahahaha

[alan nagsworth]

I don't know a great deal about this music but I do know that "Touch the Hem of His Garment" is an absolute scorcher of a tune. My grandpa would play Sam Cooke's greatest hits (among other stuff like Roy Orbison, Harry Chapin and Del Shannon, yeah I was raised right) in the car all the time and I will never ever ever forget the impact that stuff had on me. Sam's interpretation of that song is utterly fucking magical. One of those tunes where I listen to it and I think "You know what? I get it" despite having no real interest whatsoever in devoting my life to any faith.

Here's a very good version from a chap singing it acapella in the street. I like the freeform nature of it, the lack of a backing beat gives the singer a chance to really stretch out those notes.

[Sin Agog]

Singing nun from the early '70s with some great primitive synths and drum machines.  Broadcast surely must have heard her at some point. One of my favourite albums.  Fire of God's Love: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEOXg92gwl4

[Crabwalk]

If you've never heard Pastor TL Barrett's Like a Ship Without a Sail I strongly recommend you give it a crack:

Pastor T L Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir - Like a Ship (Without a Sail)

Phil Upchurch, Gene Barge, Charles Pittman and Richard Evans from Rotary Connection play on the record so you know the music is going to be great. But the youth gospel choir sound absolutely stunning on top.

Yes, he was done for running a pyramid scheme at his church in the 80s but we'll let him off because this album is fucking sublime, and at least he wasn't noncing.

[non capisco]

^ I can co-sign that, it is an absolute belter.