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What a FABULOUS record - I suspect that it was the inspiration behind the Pilgrim Travellers "Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb", recorded nearly 20 years later?

What a great post! This is some fine stuff . I'm a huge Robert Randolph fan , the other stuff is new to me and I'm lovin' it!..

thats a pretty sweet box set. do you know how much it runs for?

Sam- ►The Box ◄ goes for $100. check the link for more info.

Baudolino- Hmm, I don't know of a connection, but after listening to "Atom Bomb" I can see what you are saying..

Madeline- Robert actually has a cut on that Sacred Steel, check out some more info and another tune ► here

That is a beautifully put together box.

I like gospel. Wish I knew more about it.

Both really cool. The first one puts me in mind of The Blasters' "Jubilee Train". And the second one totally rocks, once he stops with the yakity yak.

Is the rest of that box set anywhere as interesting? 'cause that GGG Train sure hit a musical spot for me just now. Thanks.

Thanks Brendan (I gotta get that Blasters then..I only have the S/T) and Jenny, yeah, I try a lot of different stuff, but i stick pretty close to the quartets. I can never seem to find the right choir records..I know I love the sound of choirs, but I can never records I end up liking.

waydutch-If you like old time records, this has a treasure trove of both white and black religious material and the packaging is as good as it looks. One disc is dedicated totally to "sermons" which are half-spoken and half sung and I gather were a huge part of what was released back then, so that can be a little tiresome. As I said the styles are quite varied, from Louvin brothers (proto-country), to Mahalia Jackson (solos), to Blind Willie Johnson (blues), to Rosetta Tharpe(damn close to proto-rock), to The Carter Family(proto-bluegrass), so if it is the Quartet Style(a la the GGJubilee) you want to explore, I wouldn't go here. For an informative overview of pre-war american religious music,though, it is tough to beat.

It takes Ted Beard a little while to get up to speed (yuk, yuk), but when he does it's a hell (yuk, yuk) of a track. And the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet is just perfection. Though I had no idea there was a San Francisco gospel scene.....

Yuk,yuk..I think they had a different Golden Gate in mind..This here was recorded in North Carolina, with an eye gettin' past St.Peter.

Good stuff, Cody. Can hook you up if you need some Blasters; that whole 2nd album's good. But of course, they were a roots rock band, and this stuff is roots. The original's better. Thanks, never heard either of these before.

I've always liked what I've heard from them Rob..I like my Rawk rootsy..

Great stuff as usual Mr. B. You da man. Da crate man.

Thanks,Michelle. It's hard to believe another theme could emerge on MOG, ►after all we've been through, ◄ but I guess it shows how much growing and changing goes on in cyber world. It's amazing to think how some of the new MOG-playas don't even know of past legends, or that you couldn't post music.

sweet post keep those trains a rollin!

Lawdy!

Great Track Cody... really does take you on a journey...

thanks

The steel guitar is back ... I'm still remembering it from your other post. I didn't know that one couldn't post music once or maybe I forgot or maybe that was the reason that I signed in to MOG already in 2006 but didn't participate for many months exactly because of that. I don't know any more. But of which other theme day are you talking about? Is there now a gospel day or what? I read Crashs post and your reactions, which was interesting ... . But I don't have a clear opinion on that. I'm doing a mixture of reading current stuff and trying to participate in the latest "hype posts" on MOG and doing MOG crate digging on the other site as I know, that many of you have posted about music which is of interest for me before I have been around. Apparently not many people are doing the latter as I hardly read comments that are much older then the original post. I hope it's o.k., if I comment on posts, that for some of you have rather historical value ;).

Hermes, come anytime you like. we're always open..I was talking about the mini-train theme night that was going on Friday...It was fun while it lasted. And of course the bubbling up electronic and metal wednesday themes. Mostly I was trying to introduce some of the new Moggers to Crash.

Another great post, Cody. The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet is the "it" group for the jubilee style. I love how it has a swinging rhythm, much more so than the postwar style. I thought of the group when I heard the following version of "I Shall Not Be Moved," recorded in December 1956 when Elvis by chance wandered back to the Sun Records studios and happened upon some fellow musicians. Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash & Marilyn Evans Jerry Lewis really has those jubilee rhythms down. (Johnny Cash wasn't in the recordings.)

Ted Beard is great! He snuck a blues into the church!

Thanks for that Charles..when they talk about the origins of Rock, those early gospel records sure did move,didn't they..That whole Sacred Steel Live Disc is a real winner, funny how Hawaiian music had an influence on the Pentecostal church..

You're right. It's funny how, until this recent Sacred Steel movement, one never heard of Southern blacks, who had dominated bottleneck guitar wizardry, playing much steel guitar, and also one never heard of Deep South state Florida creating any notable roots music of any kind.