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Track List:
1 Just a Little Talk with Jesus
2 Softly and Tenderly
3 Troublesome Waters
4 Just a Closer Walk with Thee
5 Sermon
6 I'm Working on a Building
7 I Was There When It Happened
8 When the Saints Go Marching in
9 Until I Pray for You
10 Big Man
11 Rainbow of Love
12 Gospel Train
13 All My Sins Been Taken Away
14 Round-Up in Glory
15 House of Gold
16 Lord Lead Me Home
17 Forgive Me Lord
18 Nobody's Looking Back
19 Where Can I Go
20 Will I Be Lost
21 There's a Man in Jerusalem
22 Can't Find Time to Pray
23 Night Train to Memphis
24 I Need Jesus
25 My God Is Real
26 When I Walk on Streets of Gold
27 Gonna Make Myself at Home
28 Amazing Grace
29 My Heart Is a Chapel
30 Where Shall I Be
31 Jesus Means All to Me
32 Would Anybody Care
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Description
xWithout Sun Records, the face of popular music, indeed popular culture, would be markedly different. Record collectors know Sun Records as the birthplace of rockabilly, and a source of valuable early '50s blues, country and R&B records. But gospel music?Not surprisingly, no one has singled out this segment of Sun Records for systematic attention until now. Despite the fact that Sun made its home in a hotbed of gospel music activity, relatively little of it was recorded by label-owner Sam Phillips. He had his reasons. Sam Phillips learned early on that it was difficult to promote and sell gospel records unless that was your only business. ''It certainly wasn't intentional neglect,'' Sam Phillips explained years later. ''But you have to compromise. There's no telling what I could and should have done with gospel music from the Memphis area. I'm ashamed to say I barely touched the surface.''This collection examines, for the first time, just what that 'surface' looks like. Although not very extensive, it has a surprisingly rich texture. Gleaned from a relatively brief period (1950-1962), this is a cross section of the gospel recordings that lie within the Sun tape archives. There is some wonderful music here in a truly dazzling array of styles. The most obvious differences are racial, stemming from a segregated southern society. But race does not tell the whole story. Men and women, white and black, urban and rural, alone and in groups are all here for a common purpose: to praise the Lord and testify to their faith. And in the process, to see their names on a yellow Sun label. Here, together for the first time, are their stories.
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