| Product Summary | | Label: Allegro Corporation | | UPC: 00642623410127 | | Release Date: 8/5/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60609481 | | Item#: M44LD4 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. God's Got It ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson |  | | 2. Fix It Jesus ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 3. Wrapped Up And Tangle Up In Jesus ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 4. Tesimony Of Rev. Charlie Jackson ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 5. I Gave Up All I Had ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 6. What A Time ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 7. Trouble In My Way ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 8. My Eternal Home ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 9. Something To Think About ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 10. Lord You're So Good ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 11. I Shall Not Be Moved ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 12. Morning Train ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 13. Doodness Of God Part 1, The ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 14. Goodness Of God Part 2, The ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 15. I Gave Up All I Had To Serve The Lord ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 16. This Old Building ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 17. I Am Thinking Of A Friend ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | | | 18. All Aboard ~ Reverend Charlie Jackson | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Reverend Charlie Jackson (vocals, guitar); Laura Davis (vocals); Ike Gordon, Johnny Jackson, Frances Jackson (handclaps, background vocals). | | Producers: Reverend James Booker, Reverend Charlie Jackson, Kevin Nutt. | | Recorded between 1970 & 1978. Includes liner notes by Lynn Abbott. | | Composer: Papa Charlie Jackson. | | Personnel: Reverend Charlie Jackson (background vocals); Laura Davis (vocals); Ike Gordon, Frances Jackson, Johnny Jackson (background vocals). | | This is the debut release from CaseQuarter Records, a offshoot of Stephen Joerg's excellent AUM label. While AUM Fidelity is dedicated to the new jazz coming out of New York City, CaseQuarter is dedicated to sacred and gospel music from the American South. What better way to kick off a new label than with the collected Booker and Jackson singles of the obscure but monumental singer/guitarist Reverend Charlie Jackson, whose music is deeply rooted in the Mississippi Delta tradition? His singles for the the Booker label in New Orleans (and his own Jackson label created after Booker folded) make manifest the inseparable connection between the sinning music of Saturday night and the sanctified music of Sunday morning. Like Fred McDowell and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jackson's rhythm-conscious sound is one that comes from the well of the body; he can stir an entire house using only his electric guitar and a stomping board, and his music is expressed by a heart that seeks deliverance and praises its creator. These 18 tracks certainly reflect history, but, more than that, offer a striking view of how country blues became urban blues in the arms of Southern churches. Here we get the stomping rumbling bluesy gospel shout of "God's Got It," the truly off-the-rails musical sermonizing (that is truly terrifying in its intensity) of "Wrapped Up and Tangled Up in Jesus," and the call and response of "The Goodness of God" and "Testimony of Rev. Charles Jackson," a first-person deliverance tale in which Jackson recalls a stroke and his miraculous rehabilitation. Interestingly enough, a collection like this -- which is as fun to listen to as any record of partying blues -- makes something very plain when compared with other albums of the ilk and contrasted against white Southern gospel: the music of the black Southern churches concentrates on the themes of deliverance, redemption, and mercy, rather than on fire and brimstone and the Apocalypse. Forgiveness and mercy are the reasons for so much joy, even in the most primitive, rollicking, moaning blues found here (check out "Something to Think About.") Overall, this set deserves to be sold along with the Fat Possum recordings from the Delta for sheer listening pleasure, and paid as much attention to as Arhoolie's Sacred Steel series. That's right, Fat Possum-style electric guitar sacred gospel music -- what an auspicious beginning for a new label. ~ Thom Jurek |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/19/2003 | | Original Release Date : 2003 | | Catalog ID : CASE-101 | | Label : Casequarter | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 58m : 31s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00642623410127 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Living Blues (11/03, p.88)
- "...[The album] comes as a reminder of the man at the peak of his powers and serves as an introduction for those previously unfamiliar with his spirit-filled sounds..."Mojo (Publisher)
(2/04, p.108)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "[H]aunting, sanctified blues. The end result is the same seamless blend of primitivism and technology that Jackson's idol, Reverend Utah Smith, used to such great effect." |
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