more of Archie B.
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi (feat. Archie Brownlee [1925-1960], lead vocals)
“Will My Jesus Be Waiting,” 1952
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“Where There’s a Will,” 1958
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“That Awful Hour,” 1960
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“Take Your Burdens to Jesus,” 1959
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reading table
Life shoots you a lethal dose of time. Time is a drug that wears off.
—Samantha Harvey, Dear Thief
three takes
“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” (A. Showalter, E. Hoffman)
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, live (TV show)
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Mahalia Jackson, live (TV show), 1961
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Iris Dement, recording (Lifeline), 2010
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art beat: Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Self-Portrait, 1887
Tearing it up on TV
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi (feat. Henry Johnson)
TV Gospel Time, 1960s
“Lord You’ve Been Good To Me”
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“Leaning On The Everlasting Arms”
Where did Wilson Pickett (2/12/10) get that clenched, piercing, back-of-the-throat scream?
The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi (featuring Archie Brownlee)
“Never Turn Back” (1948)
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“Will Jesus Be Waiting?” (1952)
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“Save A Seat For Me” (c. 1956)
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“Leaning On The Everlasting Arms” (c. 1959)
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‘Archie started that scream you hear all the soul singers do,’ the great Ira Tucker of the Dixie Hummingbirds observed. ‘Now plenty of us used to scream, but Archie really brought it out.’—Arthur Kempton, Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music (2005)
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After he left gospel, Sam Cooke once told a friend that he would always tear up when he would listen to Brownlee: ‘He’s the only one who could do that—to move me like that.’—Robert Darden, People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music (2004)
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