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6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Brother Claude Ely
Satan Get Back
(Ace, 1993)
Proto rock'n'roll preachin' from his Pentecostal Holiness.
"I don't feel much like preachin', but I feel like singin'!" confesses a breathless Brother Claude Daniel Ely, just one track in, on this free-rolling collection of wild Christian hymns. Recorded in 1953, at Ely's Free Pentecostal Church of God in Cumberland, Kentucky, this is one of those straight-out-of-the-traps examples of sweaty live testifying, that, like MC5's Kick Out The Jams or Jerry Lee Lewis' Live At The Star Club Hamburg, puts you down the front, hands in the air, the righteous chills running down your back. Although not as spooky and forbidding as some Pentecostal services, Ely's church isn't necessarily everyone's cup of holy water. Dubbed 'The Gospel Ranger' by King Records (who originally recorded the two sessions found on this essential Ace compilation) Ely traded in a Pentecostal preaching approach rich with fiery admonishment and dark portent. His unique singing style often feels threaded with ghosts, thanks to the whistling lisp that blows through the words, and a melancholy air of impending apocalypse that sits heavy on his delivery. Tracks like I Want To Rest vibrate with eerie echo, unhinged by the unsettling harmonies of the five-woman strong Cumberland Five, but when Ely and his congregation cut loose - as on Cryin' Unto The Lord, or when the fiery Send Down That Rain bleeds into an army-strong stomping and clapping version of his most covered number, There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down - the power is pure, untamed rockabilly gold. Any fans of pre-'60s rock'n'roll will likely already own it. If not, you know what to do.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 06/05/2011
Further Listening
Jerry Lee Lewis - Live At The Star-Club, Hamburg (Philips, 1964)
Andrew Wartts And The Gospel Storytellers - There Is A God Somewhere
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good to have you back you spunkas
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Thank you MOJO for that treasure! Extremely great proto-rock n roll mixed with "wild" gospel!!!!
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