Track Listings (18) - Disc #1| All Artists: Reverend Charlie Jackson Title: God's Got It: Legendary Booker & Jackson Singles Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: Casequarter Release Date: 8/5/2003 Genres: Pop, Gospel Style: Contemporary Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 642623410127 |
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These spirituals cut by the electric guitar-slinging Reverend in the 1970s are so full of old-fashioned fire-and-brimstone preaching and Delta mud from Jackson?s native Mississippi that they sound as if they were recorded ... more » |
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Amazon.com These spirituals cut by the electric guitar-slinging Reverend in the 1970s are so full of old-fashioned fire-and-brimstone preaching and Delta mud from Jackson?s native Mississippi that they sound as if they were recorded 30 years earlier. So there?s no shortage of gritty chills on this disc, whether from the raggedy goodness of Jackson?s licks or his tales of struggle, sin, and souls wailing for redemption. The born-again sermonette "Wrapped Up and Tangled Up in Jesus" is as raw and idiosyncratic as anything ever played in a juke joint. The hair-raising "Testimony of Rev. Charlie Jackson," with its probing tremolo guitar, is the tale of Jackson?s first stroke and recovery. Yet the most potent number is "Something to Think About," where Jackson sings about Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, and the struggle for Civil Rights. But all 18 of these performances offer fire-breathing proof that the distance between blues and gospel can be less than a razor?s edge. --Ted Drozdowski Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsSanctified soul twangmon | Nashville, TN USA | 12/26/2004 (4 out of 5 stars) "Subtitled The Legendary Booker and Jackson Singles, this CD contains 18 tracks transferred from 45-rpm vinyl singles (whose master tapes have vanished) cut in the '70s by Reverend Charlie Jackson. A Fender Mustang-toting Baptist minister, Jackson picks bluesy lines à la Lightnin' Hopkins and sings with the feral intensity of Howlin' Wolf. "The Goodness of God" was recorded during a church service, so Jackson's distorted riffs and wild exhortations are accompanied by much sanctified shouting and communal call-and-response. Other songs -- such as the tremolo-laden "I Gave It All I Had" and the ferocious "Fix It Jesus" -- are performances Jackson recorded live in the studio backed by hand-clapping singers. In several instances, another vocalist takes the lead as Jackson strums churning grooves worthy of Pop Staples. When Laura Davis moans "I Am Thinking of a Friend" over the reverend's subtly throbbing riffs, she obliterates the distinction between a blues lament and a gospel hymn. Have mercy!" Earthy Blues Gospel J. Christmas | New Brunswick, NJ | 08/21/2003 (4 out of 5 stars) "If more preachers played Fender Jaguar guitars I might find myself converted.While not as electrifying as Fred McDowell or Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Charlie Jackson combines raunchy blues licks with rough-edged folk metaphors "Jesus got his hook in me, and I don't wanna get loose"-- all I could want from a 70s gospel record." Raw Jesus! Arch Stanton | Bondurant, WY USA | 05/13/2006 (4 out of 5 stars) "I have always been somewhat taken aback when reading the accounts of the 60s "ethnomusicologists" who scoured the South looking for Fred McDowells and Skip Jameses, pegging them as nothing more than academic carpetbaggers competing to see who could find the most authentic old Negro with a guitar.
Occasionally, good music can occasionally be discovered as a byproduct of basically patrician and passively racist hobbies. In this case, someone found a box of old recordings and we are all the beneficiaries. The Reverend Charlie Jackson played Raw Jesus, the kind of stuff you can't hear in the non-denominational stadiums that pass for churches these days. He was the gospel root, walking and talking like a man, playing without need of overdubs, on an obscure record label run out of New Orleans that funded its pressings through chicken suppers. Reverend Jackson's sanctified voice could be heard for 15 minutes a day in Baton Rouge for several years, on a radio program he paid for himself. Reverend Charlie Jackson died in his sleep on February 13, 2006 - as it apparently wasn't covered on the major networks, it took me awhile to find out. An excellent collection of his work." |
