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My Gospel Roots (Import) Sam Cooke CD
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  • Artist: Sam Cooke
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2006
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 4006408264712
  • Item Number: SRD082647
  • Release date: 06/13/2006
  • 1. Peace in the Valley
  • 2. Come and Go to That Land
  • 3. I Have a Friend Above All Others
  • 4. Jesus Done What He Said
  • 5. Joy, Joy to My Soul
  • 6. I Gave Up Everything to Follow Him
  • 7. He's My Rock
  • 8. Come Let Us Go Back to God
  • 9. I'm Gonna Build on That Shore
  • 10. Jesus Will Lead Me to That Promised Land
  • 11. Let Me Go Home
  • 12. Someday, Somewhere
  • 13. Until Jesus Calls Me Home
  • 14. I'm So Happy in the Service of the Lord
  • 15. It Won't Be Very Long
  • 16. How Far Am I from Canaan?
  • 17. Christ Is All
  • 18. Jesus Gave Me Water
  • 19. I'm on the Firing Line
  • 20. Just Another Day
  • 21. Jesus Paid My Debt
  • 22. He's My Friends Until the End
  • 23. End of My Journey
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My Gospel Roots (Import) by Sam Cooke on CD


This 23-song CD may prove essential to any Sam Cooke fan who doesn't already own his Specialty sides, covering most of the highlights of the singer's first two years as a gospel singer with the Soul Stirrers. The order of the material isn't chronological, Cooke's breakthrough record with the group ("Jesus Gave Me Water") coming very late on this disc, but that isn't too important -- the quality of the music is so consistent and compelling that the songs can be taken in any order one chooses. Additionally, the quality of the transfers is uniformly high, whether the song at hand is a cappella or presented with organ or guitar accompaniment. Obviously, the Specialty Records set offers more music, and all of it in a rational order, but as a budget collection this CD is competitive, certainly as an addendum to the Specialty reissues. As to its relationship to Cooke's later pop- and soul-oriented work, one can hear him working out the technique by which he would come to dominate those fields here, in sharp relief and very spare arrangements that, amazingly, don't lack a bit for richness, mostly thanks to his singing -- Cooke never had a chance to get old, but hearing him this young, in his early twenties, is still a bracing experience. Indeed, for those who only know Cooke's later secular music, the work here may prove to be revelation, musically or otherwise. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
  • Artist: Sam Cooke
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2006
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 4006408264712
  • Item Number: SRD082647
  • Release date: 06/13/2006
  • Label: Xtra
  • Genre: R&B, Religious
  • Style: Soul, Early R&B, Gospel, Black Gospel
  • Album Time: 0:00

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  • My Gospel Roots (Import) Sam Cooke CD
My Gospel Roots (Import) Sam Cooke CD