Sunday Gospel Set . 48 | Gospel Tent @ New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2010, part 2

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Join us every Sunday to give praise with the Sunday Gospel Set on Radio Roofscape. This week we're visiting the Gospel Tent at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2010.

Blind Boys of Alabama - Run On for a Long Time
The Heavenly Melodies - Amen. New Orleans, LA
Voices of Peter Claver - Bethlehem, I Am Blessed, Prince of Peace and Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child. New Orleans, LA
The Selvys - Live at Jazz Fest, 4/30/10
The Arc Singers- Down By the Riverside. New Orleans, LA
Aaron Neville - Amazing Grace. New Orleans, LA
The Bester Singers - Just Like Him. Slidel, LA
Sensational Six - Lift Jesus. Lake Providence, LA
Shades of Praise - It's Your Season. New Orleans, LA.

Sunday Gospel Set . 44 | The Ishmel Sisters

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Join us every Sunday to give praise with the Sunday Gospel Set on Radio Roofscape. This week we're looking at and listening to the intersection of the spirituals and jazz music. Our featured video is The Ishmel Sisters singing Follow the Drinking Gourd and reciting The Joys of Playing by George L. Davis. Here's the current set list ...

Duke Ellington & Mahalia Jackson - Come Sunday
Reverend J.C. Burnett - The Gospel Train is Leaving
Charlie Haden - Spiritual
Marion Williams - Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Louis Armstrong - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
The Dixie Hummingbirds - Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Ramsey Lewis Trio - Wade in the Water
The Ishmel Sisters - Follow the Drinking Gourd

THE JOYS OF PLAYING
by George L. Davis, II

JASHANNA - Janel
Play little ones, with the sun on your shoulder. With bright smiles and sepia skin, let the wind breeze through your hair. Your afro puffs glisten with the sheen of the starlight, and your full lips taste the cool waters of rivers flowing from your ancient past.

JANEL - Jarinne
See now the gentle rain fall on the playing sisters, in Sofala, in Soweto, in Savannah, in Santo Domingo. See them jump and play and shout and dance. See her twirl, arms uplifted, in parabolic joy. See her roll and roll and stop with her face to the wide open sky. See her laugh and chuckle and giggle and slap her knees at her sisters, while they share this moment to never come again, but always remembered in times yet born.

JARINNE - JaShanna
Play little ones, with the moon on your ear. With the silence of the half light and the call of the night, melt away into the twilight. Your bantu countenance to illumine the midnight sky, silhouettes of golden memories, to the night prime. A primrose path for your beckoning eye for these joys, we sigh.

Sunday Gospel Set . 43

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Join us every Sunday to give praise with the Sunday Gospel Set on Radio Roofscape. Our featured video this week is by Mary Mary, one of our favorite modern gospel groups, singing In the Morning.

Sounds of Blackness - I Believe
Clara Ward Specials - I Feel the Holy Spirit
Golden Gate Quartet - Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
Deep River Boys - Go Down Moses
Donnie McClurkin - I'm Walking in Authority
Fisk Jubilee Singers - When I Was Sinkin' Down
Dixie Hummingbirds - Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Rev. James Cleveland - I'm a Soldier in the Army of the Lord
Beyonce - Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Kirk Franklin - Looking for You
Five Blind Boys of Alabama - Look Where He Brought Me From
Mary Mary - In the Morning

Sunday Gospel Set . 40

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Join us every Sunday to give praise with the Sunday Gospel Set on Radio Roofscape. Our featured video this week is of The Ishmel Sisters singing Follow the Drinking Gourd and reciting The Joys of Playing by George L. Davis. And here's the complete current set list ...

Tolbert Family Singers - Ride the Gospel Train
The Ishmel Sisters - Follow the Drinking Gourd
Albert Ayler - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Nina Simone - Sinner Man
Marion Williams - Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon - Steal Away to Jesus
Golden Gate Quartet - Roll, Jordan, Roll
Ramsey Lewis - Wade in the Water

THE JOYS OF PLAYING
by George L. Davis, II

JASHANNA - Janel
Play little ones, with the sun on your shoulder. With bright smiles and sepia skin, let the wind breeze through your hair. Your afro puffs glisten with the sheen of the starlight, and your full lips taste the cool waters of rivers flowing from your ancient past.

JANEL - Jarinne
See now the gentle rain fall on the playing sisters, in Sofala, in Soweto, in Savannah, in Santo Domingo. See them jump and play and shout and dance. See her twirl, arms uplifted, in parabolic joy. See her roll and roll and stop with her face to the wide open sky. See her laugh and chuckle and giggle and slap her knees at her sisters, while they share this moment to never come again, but always remembered in times yet born.

JARINNE - JaShanna
Play little ones, with the moon on your ear. With the silence of the half light and the call of the night, melt away into the twilight. Your bantu countenance to illumine the midnight sky, silhouettes of golden memories, to the night prime. A primrose path for your beckoning eye for these joys, we sigh.

Thomas Dorsey | Precious Lord | Sunday Gospel Set . 39

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Join us every Sunday to give praise with the Sunday Gospel Set on Radio Roofscape. Our featured video this week is Thomas Dorsey singing Precious Lord. And here's the complete current set list ...

Albert E. Brumley - Turn Your Radio On
Thomas Dorsey - Precious Lord
Mahalia Jackson - Rock of Ages
Swan Silvertones - Sinner Man
Golden Gate Quartet - You Better Run
MotherWillie Mae Ford Smith - I'm Bound for Canaan Land
Fairfield Four - Lonesome Valley
Clara Ward Singers - Swing Low Sweet Chariot
James Cleveland - I Don't Feel No ways Tired
The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi - In the Wilderness
Dixie Hummingbirds - Personal Jesus
Fisk Jubilee Singers - Roll, Jordan, Roll

God in Me | Mary Mary | Sunday Gospel Set . 38

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Join us every Sunday to give praise with the Sunday Gospel Set on Radio Roofscape. Our featured video this week is by Mary Mary jammin' God in Me. And here's the complete current set list ...

Oh Happy Day - Whitney Houston & Gospel Choir
Yolanda Adams - Hold On
Disciples of Christ (D.O.C.) - Deeper
Mary Mary - God in Me
Shirley Caeser - He'll Do It Again
Black Jesus - Words of God
Albert Ayler - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Hezekiah Walker - You're All I Need
Take 6 - Wade in the Water
Kirk Franklin & Toby Mac - J Train

Shackles (Praise You | Sunday Gospel Set . 34

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Mary Mary took us out of last week's Sunday Gospel Set with Get Up and this week they're leading us into church with Shackles (Praise You). Along with Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary is one of the pioneers of contemporary urban gospel music - and huge hit makers.

Sunday - January 31, 2010 ... We're taking it to church for some gospel.

Mary Mary - Shackles (Praise You)
The Canton Spirituals - I Recommend Jesus
Bob Dylan - Knocking on Heaven's Door (live)
Mary J. Blige & U2 - One
Prince - The Cross
Johnny Cash - Why Me Lord (live)
Aretha Franklin - Say a Little Prayer for You (remix)
The Jordanaires - Swing Down, Sweet Chariot
Black Jesus - Black Jesus is Here

You'll notice that this week we've invited a lot of singers who aren't actually gospel artists. That's OK, it's a big church with room for all.

And a big shout out to 過年 in China who commented 很好啊, very good, about last Sunday's gospel set.

Get Up! | Sunday Gospel Set . 33

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