Bessie Griffin’s towering version of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child” is one of gospel music’s great recordings. Click here to listen to this
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments Episode 2119 Featured Song | The Holmes Sisters - Gonna Ride This Train
Welcome to Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments. I’m Robert Darden. Billed as the Holmes Sisters, Annie Robinson and Julia Marie Holmes released a handful of 45s for the Nashboro label in the mid-1960s. We know almost nothing about them – except that the duo clearly loved Sister Rosetta Tharpe! Their uptempo guitar-fueled songs favor Sister Rosetta’s fast-paced country boogie. Even the uncredited vocalist sings a lot like Tharpe. That devotion is nowhere more apparent on the nifty Nashboro 45, “Gonna Ride This Train.” While is credited to Robinson and Holmes, it’s clearly their joyful rendition of Sister Rosetta’s “This Train” – which was probably in public domain when Tharpe first heard it as a
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Hailing from tiny Blackshear, Georgia, in the late 1940s, the Taylor Brothers sang in Southern churches and high school auditoriums for more than 30 years, taking their down-home brand of country gospel anywhere and everywhere.
Led by C.J. Taylor, the group never quite broke though into gospel’s upper echelons, despite a string of stellar laid-back 45s for the eclectic Nashboro label from 1964 to 1967. The closest they came to a hit is this 45, “Mother’s Advice,” from 1965. “Mother’s Advice” has everything that makes a great gospel song – C.J.’s raspy, soulful lead voice, close-knit sibling harmonies and their distinctive loping country-gospel beat.
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SHOUT! Black Gospel Music Moments featured song | God Can Make a Way - Sister Josephine James
Welcome to Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments. I’m Robert Darden. Last week, we played the Rev. Cleophus Robinson’s fine “God be With You.” But the better singer in the family was probably his sister Josephine. Cleophus and Josephine, who recorded under the name of Sister Josephine James, recorded numerous superb albums of gospel duets over the decades, including their biggest hit, “Pray for Me.”