Roundabout way to this performance: I first learned this Charles Tindley song on a Washington Phillips collection that T-Bone Burnett recommended to me. I've since heard Vince Gill perform it, and it's now being used, via a Lilly Brothers recording, in a commercial for Blue Bell Ice Cream.
The Swanee Quintet started in Augusta, Georgia, in 1940. Fellow Augusta native James Brown helped popularize the group, a version of which continues to perform today.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Sunday Morning Gospel: The Trumpeteers
One of my favorite gospel tunes, "Milky White Way" (I first learned it from Elvis Presley's version). The Trumpeteers came out of Maryland and were reputed to have sold a million copies of their recording for Score Records in 1948.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
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