Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments
- Website
- http://kwbu.org/
- Description
- Author and Baylor University professor Robert Darden tells stories - and plays recordings - from the Baylor University Libraries' Black Gospel Music Restoration Project in an on-going weekly series of two-minute segments. Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments explores the distinctly African-American sound of the "Golden Age of Gospel" (1945-1975). The series celebrates this fertile musical period in American history, presenting cultural snapshots that reveal the depth of a people, their community, and the influence they have had on the rest of American music.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-05-13 07:57
- last episode published
- 2024-05-12 08:40
- publication frequency
- 6.42 days
- Contributors
- South Carolina Public Radio
- Owner
- KWBU
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 424
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Education Music History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-05-12 | Jessy Dixon’s long career included one album produced and recorded with Andrae Crouch, It’s All Right Now. |
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| 2024-05-05 | The teen-age COGICs’ “It Will Never Lose Its Power” is the earliest recording of Andrae Crouch’s beloved “The Blood (Will Never Lose Its Power.” |
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| 2024-04-28 | One of the most irresistible songs in all of gospel music is the Golden Gate Quartet’s a cappella rendition of the story of Daniel in the lion’s den – “Shadrack.” |
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| 2024-04-21 | You’ve never heard Bob Dylan’s masterful “I Shall Be Released” until you’ve heard it sung by Robert Blair and the Violinaires of Chicago. |
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| 2024-04-14 | James Herndon was one of the top composers and pianists during gospel’s Golden Age and responsible for such upbeat classic hits as “No Courage Soldier” from 1968. | |
| 2024-03-31 |
Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments - The Golden Wings of Atlanta, Georgia During the mid-1980s, the Golden Wings of Atlanta sang silky smooth gospel with songs like “Jesus Will Make Everything All Right.” |
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| 2024-03-24 | Blind street-corner singer the Rev. Pearlie Brown’s haunting rendition of the old spiritual “Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning” is a powerful glimpse into our musical past. |
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| 2024-03-17 | The Gospel All-Stars’ “It’s Me, Oh Lord,” is one of the earliest recordings of gospel legend James Cleveland. |
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| 2024-03-10 |
Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments - Elder Nick Hightower and Sister Massey Elder Nick Hightower’s old-school Hammond B-3 stylings are the highlight of this rare gospel instrumental, “Let Everybody March.” |
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| 2024-03-03 | Birmingham native Jean Austin’s hoarse and commanding voice is perfect for her slow and smokey version of “I Ain’t No Stranger Now |
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