Word: gospels
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...Joanna Adams to her first position as a Presbyterian senior pastor almost 20 years ago. Although she was the first woman in our pulpit, we did not call her because of her gender. She was simply one of the best we had ever heard at preaching the Gospel. She inspired all of us, male and female, young and old alike, with her sound theology, charisma, thoughtfulness, compassion and humor. J. TOM MORGAN Atlanta...
...found his sound along the way. Back in Greenville, his mother had taken him to New Shiloh Baptist Church every Sunday. By the time he was signed by Atlantic Records in 1952, Charles was ready to preach. On I Got a Woman (1955), he used gospel yelps and yowls for secular purpose. On What'd I Say (1959), he employed the call-and-response of church choirs to generate musical momentum and sexual tension: "Uhhhh!" "Ohhhh!" He didn't need words to get across what he meant, but music writers had a word for his music: soul. "I got criticism...
Charles has been called the father of soul, but that title is at once too broad and too limiting. He wasn't the first to combine gospel and the blues--but he did it so winningly, you could be sure he wouldn't be the last. He didn't add sex to church music--he just stopped denying it was there. But he was more than a soul provider. Throughout his career, he explored a variety of genres, including jazz and country, imbuing each with his singular grit and charm. His 1962 album Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music...
...their stories, abetted by only crisp editing and a sound track of Stax soul tunes. It's an acute yet nonjudgmental picture of a crusade that will continue long after the buyers drive home in their sputtering purchases and the Slasher heads for another town to preach his American gospel of hope and redemption for one low monthly payment. Can he get an amen? --By James Poniewozik
...What?s the difference between religious and sexual ecstasy, between philosophical and emotional anguish? In the First Church of Ray, not much. Several Charles songs were blues adaptations of gospel airs: from ?Talkin? ?Bout Jesus? to ?Talkin? ?Bout You,? from ?This Little Light of Mine? to ?This Little Girl of Mine,? from ?How Jesus Died? to the Doc Pomus composition ?Lonely Avenue.? The first number was Charles? most popular tune thus far; the second was covered, and nicely revamped as rockabilly, by the Everly Brothers; the third (?My covers, they feel like lead/ And my pillow, it feels like stone...