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Saturday, October 30, 2021

Great God A'Mighty! The Dixie Hummingbirds: Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music

 


From the Jim Crow world of 1920s Greenville, South Carolina, to Greenwich Village's Café Society in the '40s, to their 1974 Grammy-winning collaboration on "Loves Me Like a Rock," the Dixie Hummingbirds have been one of gospel's most durable and inspiring groups.
Now, Jerry Zolten tells the Hummingbirds' fascinating story and with it the story of a changing music industry and a changing nation. When James Davis and his high-school friends starting singing together in a rural South Carolina church they could not have foreseen the road that was about to
unfold before them. They began a ten-year jaunt of "wildcatting," traveling from town to town, working local radio stations, schools, and churches, struggling to make a name for themselves. By 1939 the a cappella singers were recording their four-part harmony spirituals on the prestigious Decca
label. By 1942 they had moved north to Philadelphia and then New York where, backed by Lester Young's band, they regularly brought the house down at the city's first integrated nightclub, Café Society. From there the group rode a wave of popularity that would propel them to nation-wide tours, major
record contracts, collaborations with Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon, and a career still vibrant today as they approach their seventy-fifth anniversary.
Drawing generously on interviews with Hank Ballard, Otis Williams, and other artists who worked with the Hummingbirds, as well as with members James Davis, Ira Tucker, Howard Carroll, and many others, The Dixie Hummingbirds brings vividly to life the growth of a gospel group and of gospel music itself.

 



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2 comments:

  1. Hola, soy Silvia y no había comentado en los dos o tres añitos que llevo visitando tu fabuloso blogspot. Música aparte, que también te agradezco mucho, este año has subido algunos libros que me han interesado tanto (sobre todo los relacionados con música norteamericana de finales del s. XIX y de toda la primera mitad del XX, pero también cualquiera que tuviera relación con la historia de los EUA hasta los años 1950) que he decidido empezar a estudiar inglés para poder entenderlos. Aunque sea dentro de unos años o con el diccionario en la mano. En cualquier caso, las imágenes de los libros ya no me las quita nadie :) Muchísimas gracias por tu dedicación y por el cariño que se nota que pones en el blog. Un saludo de una amante de los nativos EUA, el blues, el rockabilly, el swing, el jump blues, el bluegrass, el R&B antiguo, los espirituales negros, el newgrass, el neoswing (no el electro-), el doo wop, el R'N'R, el country boogie, el western swing, el ragtime, cualquier cosa relacionada con New Orleans, etc. ¡Buen puente a todos y todas!

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    1. Hola Silvia, es una agradable sorpresa tener una presencia femenina por el blog, agradezco mucho tu comentario de apoyo y agradecimiento, y realmente lamento que no pueda haber mas libros en español, no hay muchos sobre el tema.
      Yo también te envío un enorme saludo y espero podamos seguir disfrutando del blog y su contenido. Nuevamente gracias por tu comentario.
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