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Post by JamesP on Apr 6, 2015 10:36:05 GMT -5
Do you find Gospel Music, hymns, and spirituals to be good listening? Do you find it innovative or just boring?
I find good gospel musc, regardless of genre (i.e. Blues Gospel, Country Gospel, and even Rock Gospel) to be very entertaining, captivating and in many cases innovative. Particularly like the innovative guitar music.
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Post by rooster on Jun 3, 2015 1:37:57 GMT -5
Absolutely like and listen to gospel fairly regularly. Country Gospel if it's done right (Stanley Brothers, Tennessee Ernie Ford - can't beat that voice, Red Foley, Carter Family, Hank Williams, Sr. - You knew I had to get a guy named "Hank" in There. Deep Soul Black gospel (Highway Q.C.s, Swan Silvertones, Staples, Violinaires, Soul Stirrers). Not so much the Rock Gospel. It Moves Me.
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Post by JamesP on Jun 3, 2015 8:18:55 GMT -5
Rooster, it seems to me the roots of a couple of genre lies in Gospel...
Blues, Country, R&B, ?
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Post by voodoo on Jun 3, 2015 14:26:37 GMT -5
gospel was good enough for B.B.KING and it is a style of music becoming moren more popular everyday.
Gospel is just another way to play music in the world in which u live in.....
Its a glorious way to enjoy your belief an music at the same time
J
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Post by rooster on Jun 3, 2015 16:09:59 GMT -5
Certainly, a very strong case can be made for R&B being a child of gospel/church singing. I think Most of the R&B artists you and I might name came from a gospel background. let's try a few. Aretha Franklin, not to mention her sisters Carolyn And Erma came out of their father C. L. Franklin's New Bethel Baptist church in Detroit, MI. Sam Cooke, of course, was successful with the Soul Stirrers, Wilson Pickett was a member of The Violinaires, Dave Prater of Sam & Dave was a gospel singer in The Sensational Hummingbirds (a Professional gospel group, led by his brother, J. T. Prater). Many, Many of the R&B/Doo Wop/Vocal Group Harmony singers came out of church choirs. So I think we can safely say that R&B is an offshoot of Gospel.
I'd say the Blues, Jazz and Gospel walk side by side. That's not to say they had no influence on each other. Quite the opposite. The blues and Gospel are very close relatives, in my opinion. let's say opposite side of the same coin. Jazz grew up on the same street as Blues and Gospel and and their influence is seen in various sub-genres of Jazz.
Even Country music has felt the influence of the church, though I believe it was through the white rather than black church tradition. Country music has probably walked the farthest distance from the other three, since it began from a different starting point. Country has also felt the influence of Jazz and Blues. A very Popular style arose in the late 1920's called Western Swing. Western Swing combined several different kinds of music, among them Dixieland Jazz, Polka, Blues and Big Band Swing into a popular kind of Dance Music initially most often practiced West of the Rocky Mountains.
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