I am not a record collector. My main music acquisition rationale is to gather artists whose records were hard to come by. I wanted to have them on hand to use in forthcoming radio shows I got involved in doing. It became my form of archiving but I knew not where it led. Hoarding, money making and trading in the temple had no appeal. Transfixing music was always the deal. At the time I had no idea of the place that was referred to in gospel music circles as the “Upper Room.” The inhabitants of this collection may shed light on that spirit shaking idea. Over the years no compilations came across my path like the serious detail found within “Goodbye, Babylon.”. The completeness of its representation of gospel music history is stunning. Check out the digs it arrives in
Inside the wooden box , genuine pieces of Georgia cotton, and 6 cds, 135 songs (1902-1960) and 25 sermons. The bases are covered within its rarefied sacred carpentry. Even for the atheists, agnostics, pinsetters and plainclothes police officers among us, gospel music is a game changer for we makeshift unbelievers. If there is no god in the sky his music sure kicks ass!
Yep, they’re all represented,
here: small, tall, wide, indifferent, black, wayward, white, wined and undined. Getting the spirit movin’ in that endless tapestry of rhythm. Meet you in GLORYLAND down by the peas and carrots!
Original Box Cover
