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Various Artists
A Night with Daddy Grace
American Odeon
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$13
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Reissue of what is said to be one of the rarest of all black gospel LPs (how'd I end up with two copies?), and it's a killer. These recordings, made at Daddy Grace's House of Prayer for All People in Harlem during the '50s, are full of rousing singing, piano, and handclaps, as well as heaps of blazing horns. The closing "Jericho March" is over 11 minutes of glorious collective honk that I would rank up there with Otha Turner's Everybody Hollerin' Goat and Albert Ayler's Live in Greenwich Village. I can offer no higher compliment.
This issue of the CD features informative liner notes written by Opal Louis Nations that detail the history of Daddy Grace and his church, along with several photos of a Grace baptism service. Unfortunately, there is a minor glitch on one of the tracks, where there's a digital "jump" of a second or two. It may pass by undetected for those who haven't previously listened to the record a million times (as I have), but since my experience is all I have to go by in this regard, I feel that it should be noted.
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