The Pilgrim Jubilees (American Made Music (Paperback))
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (963 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00D4O1P7G |
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| Number of Pages | : | 191 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the Inside Flap The story of the African American quartet that set gospel music’s modern standard
"One of The Best!!" according to Dorrell F. Addison. As a quartet enthusiast I am very familar with the Pilgrim Jubilees and this is just the case of a deserving party finally getting their reward. Though only a handful of book on this genre of music have been written, this is only the second to focus on a particular quartet group (The first on Smithdale Mississippi's Williams Brothers). The book is definitely a well deserved tribute to these quartet Legends. Having established a very distinct driving sound that has become popular in the quartet indus. "Great reading" according to Slim. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. This very candid yet sincere look at the trials and tribulations of the Jubes makes it that much more amazing that the group still sings with conviction. Perhaps it is because of those trials and tribulations that the Jubes continue to make recordings that touch your soul.Reading the book made me feel like I was a part of the group. In this book, the Jubes accomplished the task of taking you on a trip through the `60s, `70s, `80s, and `90s and pulling you onto the road
Alan Young is an actor and writer who has had shows on radio, and appeared in films, on stage and television. He is also a popular voice-over artist for such characters as ?Scrooge McDuck?, and ?Hiram Flaversham? from ?The Great Mouse Detective?
The Pilgrim Jubilees know the pitfalls and hardships of their calling. He wrote Woke Me Up This Morning: Black Gospel Singers and the Gospel Life (University Press of Mississippi).. The result--The Pilgrim Jubilees--is the first full-length book on an African American gospel quartet. It's an illuminating look at the lives of the singers and musicians in the Pilgrim Jubilees. They recall singing their hearts out, then finding that the promoter has absconded with the money. Alan Young is a journalist in Auckland, New Zealand. And they recount the joys of the gospel life--the elation of having a record at the top of the charts, the companionship within the group and with the people to whom they sing, and above all, the drive to keep spreading the Christian message that has sustained them through the hundreds of thousands of miles they have traveled. When they made that groundbreaking recording, the Pilgrim Jubilees had been singing together for more than ten ye