Sacred Soul of North Carolina

Description

Eleven groups in eight days. A marathon recording session in a makeshift storefront studio in a 100-year-old building in the tiny Eastern North Carolina town of Fountain. Once the idea for the project was in place, Alice Vines of the Glorifying Vines Sisters started calling local musicians. It didn’t take her long to line up almost a dozen groups to come lift their voices and represent the region’s unique sacred soul traditions. When the groups on this record gathered to record in February of 2020, they couldn’t have known that the world was on the heels of a global pandemic, or that the year would bring great turmoil and social upheavals. But in the reality created by gospel songs even the greatest of trials are not surprising, nor can they be ultimately devastating.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Can’t Turn Me Around – Dedicated Men of Zion
2. It’s a Shame – Dedicated Men of Zion
3. Tell It All to Jesus – The Glorifying Vines Sisters
4. Somewhere to Lay My Head – Johnny Ray Daniels
5. Glory Glory – Johnny Ray Daniels
6. Tell It – Big James Barrett & The Golden Jubilees
7. Use Me Lord – Big James Barrett & The Golden Jubilees
8. Ask God in Faith – Big Walt & The Faithful Jordanaires
9. Victory – Faith & Harmony
10. We Will Work – Faith & Harmony
Disc 2
1. He’s Coming Again – The Johnsonaires
2. Trying to Make It – The Johnsonaires
3. Shake Me – Bishop Albert Harrison & The Gospel Tones
4. Stand Up – Bishop Albert Harrison & The Gospel Tones
5. I Want to Be Ready – Little Willie & The Fantastic Spiritualaires
6. Have You Tried Jesus – Little Willie & The Fantastic Spiritualaires
7. No Ways Tired – Marvin Earl “Blind Butch” Cox
8. Amazing Grace – Melody Harper