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01. The Phillips' Specials - I'm a Soldier
02. The B.C. Harmonizers - You Ought to Been There
03. Helen McGiver and the McGiver Singers - I'm Just a Voice
04. Rev. Steward & Family - Made a Vow to the Lord
05. Mississippi Nightingales - Don't Let Him Ride
06. Elder S. Patterson & The Christian Crusaders - This Train
07. Reverend Billy H. Grady - Holy Rock
08. Madam Ira Mae Littlejohn - Go Devil Go
09. Nathaniel Rivers - The Wicked Shall Cease
10. Elder & Sister Brinson & the Brinson Brothers - He's Coming Back
11. Rev. Roger L Worthy & His Sister Bonnie Woodstock - Get Back Satan
12. Rev. Utah Smith - God's Mighty Hand
13. The Bible Aires Spiritual Singers (Belle Aires) - You Better Get Ready
14. Little Ax & The Golden Echoes - So Soon
ARTIST
TITLE
Go Devil Go! Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-1976
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
JEROME 005LP JEROME 005LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
6/3/2014

If you enjoy uplifting sing-along family spiritual songs with crystal-clear vocal harmonies and a swirling synth-organ, this gospel album definitely is not for you. Go Devil Go! represents precisely the other side of the coin. The material collected here shows the most savage and visceral side of vintage gospel music. On this God-forsaken disc, the hymnals range from hypnotic mid-tempo primitive rural blues to chaotic, raw R'n'B workouts. Guitars and furious hand-claps accompany singers who do not speak of this world and are pushing hard to get to the other side. But fear not, the lyrics, messages and screams on this LP call out to the bottom-feeders, backsliders, and miscreants to redeem ourselves from the wages of sin and the inferno that waits for us down below. Go Devil Go! is Jerome Records' own selection from the glorious 3CD set Fire in My Bones compiled by Mike McGonigal in 2009. Most of the recordings included here were published in 45s or 78s for less known independent companies, some by tiny local labels and sometimes paid by the church congregation itself. As McGonigal explains in the liner-notes: "This is Gospel -- which we must always remember translates as 'the good news' (...) I find it to be among the most vibrant, playful, beautiful and emotionally-charged music in the world." Amen.