Collecting rare 45s released by small labels in the 1970s, Luaka Bop’s World Spirituality Classics Vol 2: The Time For Peace Is Now (Gospel Music About Us) is a compilation that prizes the galvanizing spirit of gospel music as much as explicitly evangelical aims.
Category: Gospel
Gospel Jubilee: A Mixtape
Many of the selections on the Gospel Jubilee were discovered in the moldy basement of a house that quite possibly belonged to a relative of Hoyt Sullivan, Jr., the impresario […]
Walker Family Singers :: Panola County Spirit
In the mid-2000s producer Michael Reilly joined a group of friends — most of whom worked as music supervisors for television and film — on a trip to the South, […]
Good God! Apocryphal Hymns :: Numero Group 040
The term “apocrypha” comes from the Greek for “hidden things.” Applied the Christian Bible, it covers a wide swath of books deemed “non-canonical” by one denomination or another. The books and stories found […]
Fire In My Bones :: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly Gospel (1944-2007)
Remember Moby? Sure you do. In the late 90s he went from a relatively obscure DJ/musician working the underground dance circuit to a bonafide mainstream pop artist. For a solid […]