Uncloudy Day

The Staple Singers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 13, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Koch Records
• ASIN: B000068Q0W
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #510,316 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Uncloudy Day

2. Let Me Ride

3. God's Wonderful Love

4. Help Me Jesus

5. I'm Coming Home

6. If I Could Hear My Mother Pray

7. Love Is the Way

8. I Had a Dream

9. On My Way to Heaven

10. Going Away

11. I'm Leaving

12. I Know I Got Religion

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You bet it's essential., November 22, 1999

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"mingtoy" (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Uncloudy Day (Charley Gospel Greats) (Audio CD)

Pops Staples' guitar work and songwriting style is echoed in the MOST unlikely places -- rockabilly, the Rolling Stones (compare the Staples' "the last time" to the Stones' version). Mavis is one of the least well-known and most powerful gospel singers ever recorded. People used to faint at their concerts.

No collection of 20th century American music is complete without the Staple Singers' early work.

And be careful: if you're not a Christian, the Staples might just convert you!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars straight to the soul !, July 3, 2003

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"swampshaka" (New Orleans, Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Uncloudy Day (Audio CD)

Wonderful 50's recordings originally released on the vee-jay label out of Chicago. This is sparse, blues drenched gospel music at it's finest. From Pops swampy tremelo laden guitar to the powerful alto of Mavis, the Staples prove time and time again there's truth in that ol' musical saying, "less is more". Pops humbly display's his delta roots throughout this sanctified session, serving us sampling after tasteful sampling of the fret work which he absorbed as a youth witnessing the legendary Charlie Patton perform on Mississippi's Dockery Plantation. It don't git more honest than this!