Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel?
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Try Ray Charles’s Self-Titled album from 1957. Some of feels literally like Gospel songs with Jesus subbed out for a girlfriend.
Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel?
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Try Ray Charles’s Self-Titled album from 1957. Some of feels literally like Gospel songs with Jesus subbed out for a girlfriend.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Pretty close!! If he had a choir behind him it’d be perfect!
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Choirs accompanying soul artists is not unheard of, but yeah, it does seem to be more of a tool that’s leveraged when the sound feels right for a track, rather than being a core part of the act. The linked song is verging pretty close to “regular” gospel, but the lyrics are a bit too modern and on the nose for church, I’d think.
glimse@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah this one slaps. Definitely an acceptable level of churchiness!