Amazing Grace: Mississippi Delta Spirituals By The Hunter's Chapel Singers Of Como, Miss.

Fred McDowell | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 26, 1994)
• Original Release Date: 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Shout Factory
• ASIN: B000003OQO
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #151,200 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #37 in Music > Indie Music > Blues > Delta Blues

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A different kind of gospel, July 9, 2000

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J. Christmas "joshua-one" (New Brunswick, NJ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Amazing Grace: Mississippi Delta Spirituals By The Hunter's Chapel Singers Of Como, Miss. (Audio CD)

If you think Amazing Grace is a cliche, you probably haven't heard the very different rendition found on this album.

Simple, unembelished, and raw, the arrangements here bring out the emotional complexity, irony, and anger in southern black christianity.

Today's gospel music is all polish and electronic keyboards, attempting to appeal to young people through the infusion of elements like rap. I wonder if there are many groups like this left today, delivering the music in a more "authentic" and ultimately more satisfying way.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid rural black gospel blues, July 31, 2000

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M. J. Smith (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazing Grace: Mississippi Delta Spirituals By The Hunter's Chapel Singers Of Como, Miss. (Audio CD)

Every track on this collection is solid rural blackgospel blues. Fred McDowell is joined in his vocals by his wife and three members of Hunter's Chapel in Como, Miss. McDowell accompanies the group on bottleneck guitar.

This is the powerful, raw blues polished not in the recording studio but in life. Their voices blend in an emotional range ranging from rough and raw to nearly lyrical. Jesus Is On the Main Line could have easily come off a recording from the teens or twenties. You Got to Move has a smoother, more forties and beyond sound. Amazing Grace is a wonderful rendition with the voices interweaving - somewhat as if you merged the call and response style with a lining out style -- the result is absolutely spectacular.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Deal, October 8, 2001

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James Michael Smith (Conyers, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Amazing Grace: Mississippi Delta Spirituals By The Hunter's Chapel Singers Of Como, Miss. (Audio CD)

The old time blues/gospel music on this collection is as real and raw as it gets. You'll recognize lots of the tunes but you have never heard them like this. If the first and last tracks of this album don't move you, you're half dead anyway!