AMAZING GRACE
Rev. J.M. Gates
Complete Works in Chronological Order September 1926 : Vol. 2
Document : 2005
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AMAZING GRACE
5 Blind Boys of Alabama
Available on Collector's Edition
Fuel : 2002
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AMAZING GRACE
The Highway QC's
Available on Jesus Is Waiting
Collectables : 2001
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AMAZING GRACE
The Swan Silvertones
Saviour Pass Me Not
Vee-Jay : 1962
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AMAZING GRACE
The Soul Stirrers
Sam Cooke's SAR Records Story 1959-1965
SAR/ABKCO : 1994
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AMAZING GRACE
Aretha Franklin
Amazing Grace
Atlantic : 1972
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AMAZING GRACE
John Fahey
America
Fantasy/Takoma : 1971
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AMAZING GRACE
The Lemonheads
Hate Your Friends
Taang! : 1987
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When I was a wee lad growing up in the American wilderness, I thought "Amazing Grace" was a punk little ditty by the Lemonheads. When I grew to be a man, I discovered that the song has a more long-storied lineage: A Slaveship captain turned abolitionist - John Newton - wrote the words two and a half centuries ago. The melody came a few decades later. Over the years, the song as we know it's been appropriated by just about everyone - it's always been a hopeful tune for bloody times. And now, a few words on today's tracks: The good Reverend J.M. Gates used "Amazing Grace" as the occasion to descant upon the fashions of his day: "Atlanta gets her styles from New York. And New York gets her styles from Paris. And Paris gets her styles from Hell." Amen to that. Most of the great gospel quintets used "Amazing Grace" as a centerpiece of their sets - take the studio versions by the Soul Stirrers & Swan Silvertones, which couldn't be more different, or remarkable. And, of course, Aretha's sixteen-minute magnum opus is still worth a listen.Labels: alex, gospel music
