CD GET YOUR SOUL RIGHT

Popis - GET YOUR SOUL RIGHT:
The Gospel Quartets and the Roots of Soul Music During the classic years of soul in the 1960s and early 1970s, with the rise of Motown, Stax, Chess and Atlantic as the key labels in the genre (and the emergence of Detroit, Memphis, Chicago and New York respectively as the key locations), many acts who came to international popularity gave credit to the influence of gospel music in the development of their musical careers. Many of these artists had sung with church choirs or gospel groups, or they had heard and seen the famous quartets singing in their hometown or on the road. Sometimes gospel singers moved into secular music (Sam Cooke, James Phelps, Lou Rawls and Johnnie Taylor), sometimes a group moved wholesale from gospel to secular (the Staple Singers), and it was rare for a soul singer not to give public acknowledgement of the gospel influence on his or her style. Just as soul music had its golden age in the 1960s/1970s, so gospel had a similar period a decade earlier, with countless groups and soloists traversing the USA touring on what were called The Programs, with three or four groups doing vocal battle with each other in churches and theatres in the origin of house-rocking music. They were known as quartets
regardless of the actual number of personnel involved, be it the male giants (Dixie Hummingbirds, Blind Boys of Alabama,
Gospelaires, Nightingales) or their female counterparts (Ward Singers, Davis Sisters), and are now legendary in the annals of
music history. Compiled and annotated by soul and gospel - and Solar Radio MD and DJ - Clive Richardson, Get Your Soul Right presents a selection of the best-known performers from the golden age of gospel on recordings selected to display their influence on the soul giants of the following decades, both in vocal delivery and musical styles and tempos, be it the hand-clapping revivalists or the tortuous simmering soulful burners - here you have the true roots of soul.