Mahalia Jackson - Gospels Spirituals & Hymns (Dbl Jewel Case)
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Artist: Mahalia JacksonEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1998-08-18
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Didn't It Rain
- My God Is Real
- Walk over God's Heaven
- If I Can Help Somebody
- Come on Children, Let's Sing
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus [#]
- I Found the Answer
- It Is Well With My Soul
- Great Gettin' up Morning
- You Must Be Born Again
- Elijah Rock [Live]
- Jesus Met the Woman at the Well
- A Satisfied Mind
- Keep Your Hand on the Plow
- Roll Jordan Roll
- Calvary [Live]
- In My Home over There
- I Will Move on up a Little Higher
- In the Upper Room
- The Christian's Testimony
- If We Never Needed the Lord Before (We Sure Do Need Him Now)
- A City Called Heaven
- Trouble of the World
- Without God I Could Do Nothing
- Take My Hand, Precious Lord
- Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
- His Eye Is on the Sparrow
- God Put a Rainbow in the Sky
- He's Got the Whole World in His Hands [Live]
- A Rusty Old Halo
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
- Dear Lord, Forgive [#]
- I'm Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song
- Search Me Lord
- If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again
- Walk on by Faith [#]
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Free Music Review: Only Christian Stuff in my MP3 Player
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a believer, but let's be honest: most of what passes for "Christian Music" is unartful, cliched, and embarrassing. When I ripped my CD collection to MP3's for my player, the only explicitly Christian music that made the cut was Rev. Blind Gary Davis and Mahalia Jackson.
I've had this set since the 90's and it's amazing. If I ever have company while it's playing, it always gets complimented. So accessible, so good, and so transporting. A quiet, rainy day with this set playing at medium-low volume is an experience not to be missed.
Also, it's one of the few sets I put on my MP3 player without leaving out a single song. There's not a clunker in the whole bunch.
Lastly, this music lasts and lasts. One of the small number of CD's I can put on after lots of listening through the years and not feel worn out on it. Even though it's highly emotional in its themes, it never leaves a sappy aftertaste. There is a certain distance from mushiness inherent in her vocal delivery. She never seems taken under by her feelings, but rather, on top of them. That's an important quality, and it even helps deliver the Gospel: "If you want your words to warm hearts, you must keep your language cool" - Chekhov*
*probably butchered that Chekhov quote, but it goes something like that.
Gospels Spirituals & Hymns (Dbl Jewel Case) Poster
If the bazillion packagings and repackagings of Mahalia Jackson's music confound you and you don't know where to start, this expertly compiled, carefully annotated double-disc box set is for you. Jackson wasn't just gospel music's first international superstar--she was among its earliest adherents and inventors. Working with the great composer and former blues singer Thomas A. Dorsey in the late 1930s, Jackson gave a distinctly blues-trained, jazzy sass and grace to Dorsey's material and the other hymns and spirituals she sang. More than any other performer, she helped to define gospel music itself as a transcendent, rootsy, melismatic, and heady spiritual sound. Culled from her sides for Columbia in the 1950s and 1960s, some of the arrangements in the set are not ideal and may sound quite a bit dated, but that voice shines and soars and dives straight to the center of your heart. Whether backed by a simple organ or piano or with full studio accompaniment, Jackson's booming, instantly recognizable contralto is indescribable, exciting, and forever a wonder to behold. And if you think that's an exaggeration, you don't own this record. --Mike McGonigalBlues Music CDs
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