Word: gospeller
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...troika of seventysomething gospel war-horses works '60s, '70s and '80s R. and B. into its repertoire. Sounds like a scheme contrived to attract boomers who want to tell their friends they like old Southern musicians but who don't actually want to listen to an album of old Southern songs. But the Blind Boys freshen up classics like the Impressions' People Get Ready, masterfully riffing off of familiar melodies. They don't nail every song--their take on Prince's The Cross is stiff--but their honey-and-gravel voices are never predictable. They're always hunting...
...suits, women in traditional head scarves, children excited about the latest X-box game-are thronging into the First Slavic Evangelical Baptist Church. A couple of blocks away, African Americans fill the sanctuary at Twenty-Fourth Street Baptist Church to listen to the Rev. Samuel Mullinax preach the same Gospel. An hour later, Latinos begin filing into the pews of nearby St. Anne's Catholic Church for a Spanish- language Mass. Meadowview residents live together, but many pray separately...
...Here Comes the New Folk Underground, his first album in 10 years, Baerwald remains the prince of rain, singing "Love is eternal as long as it lasts/ Good times come, then they pass." The lyrical dourness is leavened by a great shock of musical energy. Baerwald moves among roots, gospel, pop, rock and even cabaret songs with such ease that you might believe he's actually--gasp!--enjoying himself...
...blues legends. At night, it offers up rock, reggae, funk, world and, of course, blues concerts for every night of the week, in addition to programs such as the summertime Blues Cruises—a chartered boat providing concerts every Friday at Boston Harbor—and the Gospel Brunch every Sunday...
...Middle America was flummoxed by his singing, which didn't fit with the era's squeaky-clean bill of fare. It wasn't just his lyrics; it was what he introduced vocally - appropriating the blues and gospel styles of the African-American South, he brought "black" music to white Americans. Then there was the matter of his stage presence. Elvis Presley, the performer, was all about sex - it may have only been the suggestion of sex, but it was there all the same, in the sneer, the gyration, the raised eyebrow. And that unfettered sex appeal represented everything American parents...