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1	Colorblind (2006) more music like this by Robert Randolph & The Family Band Those who became aware of Robert Randolph's considerable musical gifts on either the awesome Live at the Wetlands or on the underrated Unclassified are in for a surprise. Colorblind expands the Robert Randolph & the Family Band's palette -- on tape anyway, they've been doing stuff like this on the stage for years -- stretching out from the blues ... see all copies from $9.74! new only from $12.90!
2	15 Down Home Gospel Classics (1998) more music like this by Various Artists Arhoolie, as is made plain in this 15-song sampler of their gospel catalog, does not favor slick modern spiritual music. (Or, as they say straight-up in the brief liner note, "The selections on this disc...are not by trendy, popular massed choirs.") Much of this is in fact gospel-blues: spiritually oriented numbers by major bluesmen Big Joe ... see all copies from $6.15! new only from $7.13!
3	The Word (2001) more music like this by The Word This purported one-off "gospel" project involving jazz organist John Medeski (yep, that one), pedal steel guitarist Robert Randolph (of Arhoolie's Sacred Steel series fame), and the North Mississippi Allstars (featuring both Cody and Luther Dickinson -- Jim Dickinson's swamp-brat kids -- as well as bassist Chris Chew) was the most welcome and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
4	There Will Be a Light (2004) more music like this by Ben Harper & the Blind Boys of Alabama Ben Harper's history with the Blind Boys of Alabama has been an evolving one that has moved from being a guest on their landmark Higher Ground offering and touring with them in Europe, to the Blind Boys joining Ben and the Innocent Criminals on-stage at the front and back of the show. This album began as a series of rehearsals for collaboration on ... see all copies from $8.20! new only from $8.20!
5	Universal United House of Prayer (2004) more music like this by Buddy Miller Changeup: Buddy Miller issues a roots gospel album as his debut for New West. Miller effortlessly walks the line between the genre's styles, all the while stamping them with his own unique Americana trademark. Miller wrote or co-wrote eight of the set's 11 selections and employs a backing band of friends including Brady Blade, Steve Hindalong, ... see all copies from $5.95! new only from $14.95!
6	Stone Cold Ohio (2006) more music like this by Little Axe Little Axe is guitarist and singer Skip McDonald, but it's also much more than that. It is, in practice, a virtual reunion of the Sugarhill Gang -- the rhythm section responsible for the grooves underlying such paleo-hip-hop classics as "Rapper's Delight" and "White Lines" -- and therefore also a virtual reunion of Tackhead, the pioneering avant ... see all copies from $10.65! new only from $13.16!
7	The Complete Blind Willie Johnson (1993) more music like this by Blind Willie Johnson If you've never heard Blind Willie Johnson, you are in for one of the great, bone-chilling treats in music. Johnson played slide guitar and sang in a rasping, false bass that could freeze the blood. But no bluesman was he; this was gospel music of the highest order, full of emotion and heartfelt commitment. Of all the guitar-playing evangelists, ... see all copies from $13.66! new only from $17.76!
8	Hymns for the Hopeless (2003) more music like this by William Elliott Whitmore William Elliott Whitmore has the ancient sounding voice of an 80-year-old Appalachian moonshiner, and while he is yet to turn thirty, his bleak and death-haunted tales are full of the kind of regrets that only a long life full of loss and struggle can validate. On Hymns for the Hopeless, his debut release, Whitmore mines a strip of narrow ... see all copies from $11.51! new only from $12.86!
9	Harlem Street Singer (1960) more music like this by Rev. Gary Davis Recorded during a three hour session on August 24, 1960, Gary Davis laid down 12 of his most impassioned spirituals for Harlem Street Singer. Starting off the session with a version of Blind Willie Johnson's "If I Had My Way I'd Tear That Building Down," here renamed "Samson and Delilah," Davis is in fine form. His vocals are as expressive as Ray ... see all copies from $7.56! new only from $10.29!
10	Lightning in a Bottle (2004) more music like this by Original Soundtrack Lightning in a Bottle is the double-disc soundtrack to the documentary film of the same title directed by Antoine Fuqua and shot at a February 7, 2003, concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Billed as a "Salute to the Blues," the show featured veteran blues musicians as well as a younger generation of players and artists either ... see all copies from $10.70! new only from $10.70!
11 view cover	Song of the Blackbird (2006) more music like this by William Elliott Whitmore William Elliott Whitmore hasn't changed one iota for Song of the Blackbird, the third in a stylistic trilogy that began with 2003's Hymns for the Hopeless and continued in 2005 with Ashes to Dust. He's still fascinated by death and the re-examination of a life lived that death forces into play, and he still approaches his songs on a sparse, rustic ... see all copies from $11.14! new only from $12.86!
12 view cover	Praise God I'm Satisfied (1989) more music like this by Blind Willie Johnson Yazoo's Praise God I'm Satisfied is an excellent collection of 14 tracks Blind Willie Johnson recorded in the '30s, including such numbers as "Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed," "Praise God I'm Satisfied," "Rain Don't Fall on Me" and "Jesus Is Coming Soon." These are excellent, haunting recordings, boasting some stellar guitar work, but everything that ... see all copies from $12.49! new only from $16.21!
13 view cover	Ashes to Dust (2005) more music like this by William Elliott Whitmore William Elliott Whitmore's stunning debut album, Hymns for the Hopeless, a death-haunted collection of country-folk dirges sung in an ancient croak of a voice, begged the question, if an acceptance of death is both redemption and deliverance from a life of pain, struggle and regret, where to next? With Ashes to Dust, his second album, Whitmore ... see all copies from $11.51! new only from $12.86!
14 view cover	Little More Faith (1999) more music like this by Reverend Gary Davis see all copies from $8.81! new only from $10.35!
15 view cover	The Gospel of Blues (2003) more music like this by Sister Rosetta Tharpe With 18 Decca tracks from 1938-1948, this CD is not only a good survey of some of Tharpe's best work, but one of the best compilations of any sort to illustrate gospel's crossover into blues, R&B, and secular music in general. Admittedly that's not the busiest cross-fertilization of popular music, but it's not one that's given much attention. And ... see all copies from $7.44! new only from $8.66!
16 view cover	Heroes of the Blues: The Very Best of Gary Davis (2003) more music like this by Rev. Gary Davis An expert ragtime and blues guitarist, Rev. Gary Davis recorded gospel, marches, ragtime, jazz, and minstrel pieces throughout his long career (which included recordings issued in every decade from the 1930s until his death in 1972), but turned increasingly to spiritual material, and it is for his own brand of gospel-blues that he is best known. ... see all copies from $7.57! new only from $8.91!
17 view cover	If I Had My Way: Early Home Recordings (2003) more music like this by Rev. Gary Davis see all copies from $14.95! new only from $14.95!
18 view cover	Soul of a Man [Snapper] (2004) more music like this by Blind Willie Johnson Blind Willie Johnson wasn't a blues singer in the generally accepted sense. He was really a singing preacher with a killer slide guitar style and a guttural voice that indicated clearly that he wasn't about to mess around with the small stuff. While many blues singers woke up in the morning wondering where their women went, Johnson woke up ... see all copies from $7.90! new only from $10.05!
19 view cover	American Primitive, Vol. 1 (1997) more music like this by Various Artists Until he took a more deconstructionist course on albums like City of Refuge and Womblife, John Fahey wrote songs that drew largely from his love of country blues and folk music. These early American (and European) forms were assimilated into his own unique fingerpicking guitar style. He spent his late teenage years canvassing for 78 rpm records in ... see all copies from $11.94! new only from $14.22!
20 view cover	Sings Spirituals [Bonus Tracks] (2006) more music like this by B.B. King For a good part of the '50s B.B. King recorded for the Bihari Brothers' RPM and Kent labels, and the brothers would, in turn, issue collections of these singles on LP as part of their discount Crown Records series. B.B. King Sings Spirituals originally appeared as a Crown LP in 1959, but it was less a collection of singles than a true labor of ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $16.37!
21 view cover	Amazing Grace (1966) more music like this by Fred McDowell The connection between rural blues and spiritual music is sometimes overlooked. This 1966 recording, featuring McDowell, his guitar, and the Hunter's Chapel Singers of Como, Mississippi (including his wife Annie Mae), is one of the best illustrations of how closely the styles can be linked. McDowell and company perform what the record subtitle ... see all copies from $14.57! new only from $14.57!
22 view cover	In the Spirit: The Gospel and Jubilee Recordings of Trumpet Records (1994) more music like this by Various Artists Between 1950 and 1953, the tiny Trumpet label based in Jackson, MS, issued some 30 superb spiritual sides, the best of which are found on this invaluable 16-track set. While the names that make up In the Spirit aren't immediately familiar, the performances are uniformly strong; Hugh Dent, a protégé of Brother Joe May, shows off a rich baritone on ... see all copies from $4.79! new only from $10.57!
23 view cover	Ripley (2002) more music like this by Steve Ripley Sparse is the electric, driving rock edge of the Tractors on the first solo effort of bandmember Steve Ripley. The album, simply entitled Ripley, is first and foremost vocal, but its instrumental accompaniment is powerful enough to counterbalance Ripley's amazing "rasp." Ripley's jagged vocal style adapts itself to the album's bluesy cuts such as ... see all copies from $2.08!
24 view cover	Americana Roots Songbook: Modern Blues (2002) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
25 view cover	Christmas in My Heart (2001) more music like this by Candi Staton Contemporary gospel vocalist Candy Staton offers her interpretation of several Christmas classics and a handful of originals on her 2001 release Christmas in My Heart. The gentle, smoky voiced singer embraces both the well known and self-penned tracks equally, with the highlights including the title track, a bluesy number by Staton herself, ... see all copies from $7.86! new only from $7.86!

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