Red Kelly and I are currently working on a discography of  the Five Blind Boys of Alabama between 1965 and 1990. While doing our research we found a solo album by Clarence Fountain which we had never seen in any discography so far. It was known that Fountain recorded in the 1970s several solo albums for Jewel, but not that he recorded in 1988 a solo album for Wajji.
The album "Leave Them There"(Wajji LP1304) is a typical late 1980s sounding gospel album, and that's with a bit too many synths for my ears to really appreciate it. The only two links with the Five Blind Boys of Alabama on this album are the location of recording: Sound Sigma Studios in Philadelphia where they recorded the much better sounding "I'm A Soldier In The Army Of The Lord". The second connection is the excellent guitar work by Sam Butler Jr, lead guitarist of the Alabama Blind Boys from the late seventies onwards. You can hear some of his excellent guitar work on "Me And Jesus".
The best song on the album is "Me And Jesus", a song he recorded earlier on at his Jewel album "Soul, Spirit And Song

In our two previous visits to the Blue-Boy label we've only be listening to The Gospel Trotters. Today we listen to The Galilee Gospel Singers of Pampano. It's one of a (small) hand full of 45's released on Blue-Boy. It's the only release by the Galilee Gospel Singers as far as we know.

In February we had our first blog entry about the Seven Stars of Jackson, MS and their album on J&B. In a second blog entry we focused on the album they recorded for Su-Ann. Today we listen to one of their 3 Delta 45's provided by Kevin Nutt. It's recorded in the second half of the sixties.  Prior to this Delta 45, they recorded as The Seven Star Juniors two other 45's on Delta and one 45 on Selective back in 1949.

"What else do you want?" was the rhetorical question with which I finished my previous post on the Traveling Angels. Robert Sacré replied with: The A Side!!
Here it is.
Robert is teacher in the history 0f Afro-American Music and Literature at the University of Liege in Belgium. His website Black Music USA isn't only a great resource for his students, it's a great resource for all of us with a more than average interest in Afro-American Music.

The Chosen Ones recorded one album "Everything Is In God's Hand" for Prayer Music in what sound and looks like the 1980s. All contact adresses on the back cover are in Illinois, making it safe to assume that The Chosen Ones are from Illinois. Unfortunately the album liners don't give a group line-up, just the names of the musicians involved.
"When I Call On The Lord" is a beautiful deep gospel ballad with a very strong lead.