Please check out this Sotify Playlist, it is of the Mahalia Jackson Album "The Gospel Sounds of Mahalia Jackson". It is one of my favorite gospel albums.
As I explained on my facebook page, I can not really explain how much I need to hear this song right now.
This one gives me strength on a quite Sunday evening. I hope it helps you to climb what ever mountians are in your path.
Notes from YouTube: Mahalia Jackson sings - 03. Lord Don't Move The Mountain
Written by Thomas Dorsey - known as "the father of black gospel music". Dorsey was the music director at Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago from 1932 until the late 1970s. His best known composition, "Take My Hand, Precious Lord", was performed by Mahalia Jackson and was a favorite of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and "Peace in the Valley", which was a hit for Red Foley in 1951 and has been performed by dozens of other artists, including Queen of Gospel Albertina Walker, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash.
Elvis Presley - Precious Lord, Take My Hand - The most popular videos are here
Take My Hand, Precious Lord
The definitive song for Christmas IMHO
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Get away, Jordan
Get away, Jordan
Get away, Jordan
There’s one more river to cross
And that’s the stream that flows,
Thru Bethlehem call the river Jordan.
Don’t you want to God Almighty…
O’ my Lord…
Get away, Jordan
Get away, Jordan
Get away, Jordan
I want to cross over to see my Lord
One of these mornings bright and fair
I want to cross over to see my Lord
Going to take my wings and fly the air
I want to cross over to see my Lord
These videos go along way in showing how gospel music is related to the blues. I hope that it helps the frat boys, the aging boomers and the corporate blues fans to go deeper into the roots of the blues. I know that it helped me to understand the relationship between these two great American music forms that I have been listening to all my life.
And not that it matters how you came to the music, it just helps to understand where the music came from.
