Various - This Might Be My Last Time Singing [Raw African American Gospel]
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Three CD collection of rare Gospel recordings. Get ready for fiery sanctified soul, heavy Pentecostal jams, drum machine gospel, slow-burning moaners, glorified guitar sermons and righteously ragged a cappela hymns! The music on this compilation was originally released on small label 45s, mostly in the 1960s and '70s. At least one-third of the records were self-released, paid for by a church congregation or the artists themselves. Others were on regional labels (typically run by one single producer) little known today outside of a small circle of collectors. This vibrant music is incredibly honest and almost criminally unknown. All tracks were sourced from 45s collected over the last decade
This May Be My Last Time Singing focuses specifically on post-war gospel, but most of it feels oddly timeless. Rev. J.W. Neely and Family's "Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around" was self-released in 1980 but sounds divorced from the era altogether; it's disorienting to consider that this rendition was born into the same pop landscape as Pink Floyd and Blondie. An a cappella, handclap-heavy ode to solidarity in the face of temptation-- "Don't you let nobody turn you around/ You just keep on together," Neely and family shout, their voices warm-- it's encouraging, never threatening. Same goes for the Exciting Traveling Four's "O Lord I Have No Friend", which was released by the National Recording Label in 1982. Save a wonky electric organ intro (which sounds as if it were being piped up from the deep end of a swimming pool), "O Lord I Have No Friend" is quaint and earnest in a way that defies its age. You can practically see the matching bow ties, the four faces crowded around a single mic.
The collection's longest track, the seven-and-a-half minute "He Walks With Me (Parts 1 and 2)", is also its most exhilarating. Calvin Leavy, a singer and guitarist from Arkansas, scored a modest hit in 1970 with "Cummins Prison Farm", a scrappy electric blues that decried conditions at Cummins Prison, the Arkansas penitentiary infamous for its abuse (torture and inmate rape were common, and in 1968, three skeletons, one decapitated, one with a crushed skull, and a third with both legs broken back were discovered in shallow graves on the prison grounds). In 1976, Leavy-- who, in a particularly cruel twist, would be shipped off to Cummins himself for drug charges in 1992-- recorded "He Walks With Me (Parts 1 and 2)" with the Cummins Prison Farm Singers for the aptly named Messenger Records. The song contains a bogus fade out three and a half minutes in, but Leavy's really just warming up, his raspy voice growing higher, wilder. The music-- loose, rudimentary rock-- gently revs back up, providing a steady, rhythmic canvas for Leavy to scribble all over. His message is determined, redemptive: we are not alone, not ever. By the time the track actually fades out, it feels like there's a full army of believers crammed into the room.
Plenty of new, privately sourced anthologies have inadvertently positioned the record collector as curator, savior, interpreter. But unlike many maniacal stockpilers of vinyl and shellac, McGonigal doesn't fetishize these songs as hard-sought rarities. This May Be My Last Time Singing contains plenty of oddball finds, but, as McGonigal explains, these are just the tracks he loves the most-- which is exactly what renders him such a reliable guide. As his brief liner notes state, "these are the songs I'm most obsessed with, that if you dropped by my house I'd say 'You have to hear this.'"
Which, as any music fan knows, is the very best way to hear anything.
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Who would have thought that Tompkins Square would find a way to equal their stellar collection Fire in My Bones: Raw Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel: 1944-2007? That set, along with Dust to Digital's Goodbye, Babylon compilation were the two benchmarks for quality in presenting forgotten and/or all but unheard historical gospel music from Pre-War times to the modern day. But Tompkins Square takes it a step further with Mike McGonigal, the cat who assembled Fire in My Bones from his own collection; he reached even deeper into his record library to assemble the three-disc This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45 RPM 1957-1982. McGonigal claims he chose the 45 format as source material for this set because of the notion that almost anyone could afford to release one during the heyday of the single. Apparently, he was right, since a number of the titles featured here have such obscure and rare origins that they were single listings in a label's catalog. Certainly, sermons, gospel quartets, full-fledged gospel groups, choirs, and full-on bands are represented in these 72 tracks, many of them recorded live during church services. The most remarkable thing about this set, however, is period: all of this material was recorded in the post-Sam Cooke/Soul Stirrers period, during the James Cleveland and Ray Charles eras, in the years just after Muddy Waters' and John Lee Hooker's electric blues debuted, at the dawn of soul music history through the heyday of doo wop and labels like Motown, Fortune, Atlantic, Goldwax, Stax, Volt, Chess, and Cadet. Virtually everything here -- including sermons -- was influenced by the black music traditions begun in 1950 and culminating in the late '70s. Some stellar examples are "Down Here Praying" by the Detroit Silvertones, a version of the title track sung by New Orleans' Missionary Mamie Sample (there are at least three different takes by various artists), "Baptized" by the Clefs of Calvary, the rocking gospel of "Send the Holy Ghost Down" by Alston, illinois' Brother Clark & His Trio, the positively shack-shaking reading of "I'm a Pilgrim" by Nathaniel Rivers and his stinging lead guitar cut in a storefront church in Bed-Stuy in 1973, the pedal steel groove of Rev. Lonnie Farris on "Peace in the Valley," and "The Little Light," by Detroit's Fantastic Voices of Joy, produced by Dave Hamilton on the Sacred Sounds imprint. There are simply far too many examples of the wild, woolly, and wonderful here to recount. Some cuts sound like the singles they came from had been skated on, but it's far from a drawback. If anything, it adds to the sense of mystery and immediacy in these tracks -- most of them one-offs -- as if voices out of time are edifying the listener in church on Sunday morning, with another side of the same truth kitty corner from the one they hung out on on Saturday night. On most of these recordings, we can hear the sounds of the street inside the church as well as vice-versa. McGonigal's liner notes are as detailed as possible -- he's done his homework -- making this an absolutely essential purchase for anyone interested in gospel, soul, blues, and R&B, the sacred and the profane.

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Disc: 1
 1. He Will Fix It - Harris Gospel Singers
 2. I Am Saved - Silver Harpes
 3. Jesus Been Good - The Fantastic Angels
 4. I Never Heard a Man - The Gospel Keys
 5. The Devil's Trying to Steal My Joy - Prophet George Lusk
 6. I Heard of a City - Carolina Kings
 7. I've Got to Move to a Better Home - Rev. George Oliver
 8. Walk With God - Elder Robert McMurray
 9. This May Be My Last Time Singing - Missionary Mamie Sample
 10. Put Your Hand in the Hand - R. Jenkins and the Dayton Harmonaires
 11. Cloud Hanging Low (Part 2) - Missionaires
 12. I Need You Jesus - James Spiritual Singers
 13. I'll Fly Away - Traveling Alstars
 14. You Better Mind (Parts 1 + 2) - The Skylifters
 15. Do You Think God Will Let You By - Joiner's Five Trumpets
 16. I Came a Long Way - Reliable True Tones
 17. Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around - Rev. J.W. Neely and Family
 18. Stop Now - Willie Cotton
 19. Oh Lord I Have No Friend - The Traveling Four
 20. Prodigal Son - The Southern Jubilee Singers
 21. Down Here Praying - The Detroit Silvertones
 22. (Make Old) Satan Leave Me Alone - Sensational Whirlwinds
 23. One Morning Soon - Joyce and Johnita Collins
 24. Zechariah - The Pilgrim Rest M.B. Church Male Chorus

Disc: 2
 1. Stop Living On Me - Rev. R. Henderson
 2. Ain't It a Shame - Echoes of Harmony
 3. He Got His Eyes On You - Brother Sidney Harris
 4. When He Called My Name - The Mighty Wings
 5. Baptized - The Clefs of Calvary
 6. I Heard a Prayer (Parts 1+2) - Rev. Elijah Thurston
 7. I'm Working On a Building - Grady Coffee
 8. Perfect Like the Angels - The Sound of Soul
 9. So Many Fallen By the Wayside - The Dedicators
 10. If You Ever Need a Friend - The Masonic Travel's of Memphis, Tennessee
 11. On the Right Road Now - Crump Brothers
 12. I Believe I Will Go Home - Big Dan and the Gospel Heavyweights
 13. Save Me Jesus - Southland Stingers
 14. God's New Building - Little Midget/The Morning Stars
 15. May Be My Last Time - Jerry and Naomi Jerkins
 16. Jesus Gave Me Water - McCauley Spiritual Singers
 17. Be There in the Happening (Part 2) - Rev. Curtis Watson
 18. I Found a Friend - Mighty Gospel Singers
 19. I'm a Child of My God - Gospel Creators
 20. Let Your Will Be Done - Spiritual Echoes
 21. If It Wasn't for the Lord What Would I Do - The Cumberland River Singers
 22. This Old Light of Mine - Gospel Six of Gadsen, SC
 23. I Got to Make It - Ethel Profit
 24. Where Could I Go - Friendly Five
 25. Who - Sunset Jubilee Singers

Disc: 3
 1. Jesus Is On the Mainline - The Whirlwinds
 2. God Don't Take No Vacation - Brother Smith & His Stars of Harmony
 3. The Lord Will Make a Way - Sensational Six
 4. Oh Lord Help Me - Fire Side Spiritual Singers
 5. God Is Taking Care - Deacon James Williams
 6. Supernatural Prayer (Parts 1+2) - The Pastor That Lives Faith
 7. Jesus Will Fix It - Pleasant Grove Community Chorus of Saulsburg, TN
 8. He Walks With Me (Parts 1+2) - The Cummins Prison Farm Singers/Calvin Leavy
 9. All Wrap Up in One - Otis Wright
 10. Bless the People Everywhere - The Burden Lifters
 11. Milky White Way - Zion Travellers
 12. I Went to the House - The Golden Stars/Deacon James Williams
 13. I've Got a Good Feeling - Spiritual Harmonizers
 14. Send the Holy Ghost - Brother Clark & His Trio
 15. Don't You Know Me Thomas - Rev. H.B. Crum/The Golden Keys
 16. The Little Light - The Fantastic Voices of Joy
 17. I Got Jesus (And That's Enough) - Sylvia Phillip
 18. There's a Place - Jessie Lee Harris
 19. I'm a Pilgrim - Nathaniel Rivers
 20. My Lord and I - Willenette Gospel Singers of Los Angeles, CA
 21. This May Be My Last Time - Brother Will Hairston
 22. Peace in the Valley - Rev. Lonnie Farris
 23. Jesus Is Living Today - The Triplett Singers/Rev. Linston Triplett Jr.