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Ernest L. Young learned the music business from the ground up, starting in the jukebox operating field, and soon became one of the largest suppliers in the Nashville area. He opened Ernie’s Record Mart on Third Avenue North in Nashville as a means to move more records, and realizing the advantages in making his own product, he built a small studio in the back of the store, later expanding into a larger space on the third floor of his shipping department building, finally opening the pioneering gospel label Nashboro Records in 1951. Young launched a secular subsidiary label, the more famous Excello Records, four years later in 1955. Always hands-on, Young oversaw every phase of making records at his labels, and gospel artists responded by giving Young’s Nashboro imprint one of the finest rosters of gospel in the genre’s history, while his roster for the Excello blues and R&B subsidiary was pretty singular too — but that’s another story. This four-disc set, which comes complete in a gatefold LP-sized package, surveys Nashboro’s gospel output chronologically from 1951 to 1983, and it’s an eye-opening, explosive anthology of gritty, exuberant black gospel from a label that had as much to do with shaping the sound of pop music in the latter part of the 20th century as more famous labels like Sun and Chess Records did. The roots of soul and so much more are heard here, and with the way the set is assembled, one can hear the decades build forward through the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s into the full-band, funky and R&B-influenced tracks from the 1970s and 1980s. The whole anthology is a delight, and there are some familiar names here, like the Fairfield Four, for one, but there are just as many or more obscure artists here making powerful musical statements. A particular high point is the husband-and-wife duo the Consolers’ 1957 version of “This May Be the Last Time,” a song the Rolling Stones had a secular hit with in the mid-’60s (under the title “The Last Time”). In the Consolers’ hands, the song seems so much brighter, jangly and more alive, and it speaks to deeper and wider concerns than the Stones’ version does. It’s just one example of the many powerful tracks collected in this set. Bravo to Tompkins Square for spotlighting the best little gospel label that ever was.
 
Tracklisting Disc 1 “Looking for a Better Place (1951 – 1957)”:
01 – Silvertone Jubilee Singers – Since Jesus Came into My Heart
02 – Skylarks – There Must Be a City
03 – Cross-Road Singers – Sing till the Power of the Lord Comes Down
04 – Sons of the South – In My Savior’s Care
05 – Flying Cloud Quintet – Jezebel
06 – Fireside Gospel Singers – Get Your Soul Right
07 – Skylarks – Baptism of Jesus
08 – Swanee Quintet – It’s Hard to Get Along
09 – Blair Gospel Singers – I’ve Got Heaven on My Mind
10 – The Radio Four – How Much I Owe You
11 – The Spiritual Five – I’ve Been Born Again
12 – Sullivan Pugh – Give Me My Flowers
13 – The Chosen Gospel Singers – Trouble of This World’s Condition
14 – Travelin’ Echoes – Looking For A Better Place to Live
15 – Singing Sons – If You Ever Needed the Lord
16 – The Christland Singers – You Got To Be Born Again
17 – The Supreme Angels – Run to the Rock
18 – Southern Echoes – Be Ready When He Comes
19 – Reverend Morgan Babb – Wonder How Long
20 – The Consolers – This May Be the Last Time
21 – The CBS Trumpeteers – I Want To Know

Tracklisting Disc 2 “Seat in the Kingdom (1958-1963)”:
01 – Edna Gallmon Cooke – I Can’t See Them Now
02 – The Sensational Propheteers – I’m Battling
03 – The Chosen Gospel Singers – Lord Shine on Me
04 – The Jewel Gospel Trio – Too Late
05 – The Angelic Gospel Singers – I’m Getting Nearer, Pt. 1
06 – The Kindly Shepherds – Take the Lord with You
07 – The CBS Trumpeteers – Milky White Way
08 – Spiritual Keynotes – Ashamed of Jesus
09 – Professor Harold Boggs and the Boggettes – I Prayed and He Healed Me
10 – Sister Lucille Barbee – Let the Church Roll On
11 – Trumpets of Joy – I Need the Lord to Guide Me
12 – Canaanites – Lord You Can Depend on Me
13 – Gospel Five Singers – Love Deep Down in Your Heart
14 – Rock Island Singers – Lord I’ll Be Satisfied
15 – Sons of Faith – Since I’ve Been Born
16 – The Gospel Clouds of Joy – Thinking of His Goodness
17 – The Hightower Brothers – Seat in the Kingdom
18 – The Chosen Gospel Singers – Let Your Life Speak Out
19 – The Holmes Sisters – Son of Man
20 – Golden Trumpets – Working Below
21 – Traveling Kings – Farther Down the Road
22 – Gospel Solotones – Ride In the Chariot
23 – Hightower Brothers – It’s Glory Glory
24 – Gospel Song Birds – When They Ring Them Golden Bells

Tracklisting Disc 3 “Don’t Drive Your Children Away (1964-1967)”:
01 – Bonita Cantrell – Wait On the Lord
02 – Maggie Ingram and the Ingramettes – Time Is Winding Up
03 – Harmonizing Five – You Need the Lord Every Day
04 – Singing Crusaders – Good Morning
05 – The Williams Singers – Troubled Mind
06 – Skylarks – My Life is in His Hand
07 – Six Trumpets – Nobody But You, Lord
08 – Morning Echoes – I’ve Got Jesus
09 – Gospel Songbirds – Won’t It Be Grand
10 – Silver Bells – My Love for Jesus
11 – Taylor Brothers – Mother’s Advice
12 – Rev. M.L. Franklin – Sweet Hour of Prayer
13 – Edna Gallmon Cooke – At the Gate
14 – Brother Joe May – Silent Night
15 – Spiritual Five – Satisfied with Him
16 – Sister Emma Tucker – You Should Have Been There
17 – Brother George Carter – I Do, Don’t You
18 – Slim and The Supreme Angel Singers – I Want To Be Just Like Him
19 – Fairfield Four – Don’t Drive Your Children Away

Tracklisting Disc 4 “Heaven, I’ve Heard So Much About It (1966-1983)”:
01 – Ethel Davenport – Free At Last
02 – Jonathan Greer – Gospel Train
03 – Dorothy Love Coates and the Gospel Harmonettes – Heaven, I’ve Heard So Much About It
04 – The Consolers – Children Keep On Marching
05 – Bevins Specials – Everybody Ought to Pray
06 – Rev. Willingham and The Swanee Quintet – That’s the Spirit
07 – Brooklyn Allstars – I Stood on the Banks of Jordan
08 – Rev. Cleophus Robinson – Wrapped Up, Tied Up, Tangled Up
09 – The Morning Stars of Savannah – Jesus is My Keeper
10 – Gospel Keynotes – Keynote’s Prayer
11 – Pilgrim Jubilee Singers – He Brought Joy to My Soul
12 – Troy Ramey and the Soul Searchers – It’s Jesus, Y’All
13 – Bright Stars – It’s Time to Serve the Lord
14 – Salem Travelers – Moving On
15 – Tommy Ellison and the Five Singing Stars – Come On Home
16 – Willie Neal Johnson and the Gospel Keynotes – Bless Me

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 4xCD
Genre: Gospel
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 2013
Speelduur: 180 minuten
Cover: Front is in de RARs verwerkt