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The Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama
Singing Songs of Praise
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$13 |
The Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama, have been singing together in various configurations for over fifty years and their gospel is imbued with decades of feeling. Spare, measured, and steady, their arrangements allow these songs breathe deeply and reach out the listener. For those of us who have come to gospel from the blues, guitarist Curtis Harris may be the ringer here, and his languid, Lightnin' Hopkins-influenced style is a perfect foil for the quintet.
"The Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama are one of the very last still active gospel quartets with origins in Gospel's Golden Age of the 1950s. Weaving together influences from the blues and country & western, the Spiritualaires over the years have remained faithful to their ever-distinct yet traditional sound. Drawn from recent studio recordings and live radio broadcasts, Singing Songs of Praise reveals the Spiritualaires as both a super-fine harmony quartet and a unique blues-guitar-driven ensemble. What a treat it is to have - after almost six decades together - the debut recording of the Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama."
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