This collection of rare black gospel from the Midwest'featuring church congregations, basement recordings sessions, family bands and children's choirsis drawn together by two threads.
The first hope which holds fast and unchanging, even in the most trying of circumstances. The second circumstance the way these recordings fell into the hands of producer, Ramona Stout, in Chicago at the dawn of the Obama era, when she had just about lost hope in her American Dream.
Over the course of five years (2006-2011) of vinyl hustling in Chicago's South and West Sides, these 45s came into Ramona's hands, mixed up in milk-crates stacked with Northern Soul, water-damaged jazz and Hall and Oates LPs. After much travel and time, Ramona has articulated the spirit that drove this music forward. In this collection, she writes of this music and its relationship to the struggling communities where the records were found.
With art direction by Grammy-winning graphic designer Susan Archie, this collection is a tangible, immersive experience in the struggles'the victories, the failures and the lingering hope'that defined Chicago in the post-Civil Rights era. No Other Love is a singular, impressionistic journey into music that expresses faith, despair and exuberance. It is also a profound exploration of the very meaning of hope.
Tracklisting:
1. It's Going to Pay - Bro. Randy Wilson
2. I Want You to Help Me - The Travelers of Zion
3. No Other Love - Messiahs of Glory
4. Christmas in Heaven - Rev. H.H. Harrington
5. Try Jesus - Gospel Carolets
6. The Number - Wondering Gails
7. Journey - Joanne & Sonny
8. You Can't Make It - The Georgia Brooks Singers
9. God is Using Me - The Harmony Five
10. Christ Rose - Rev. John Thomas and the New Christian Fellowship Church Choirs
11. Black Pride - Rev. H.H. Harrington
12. I'm Gonna Stand Still and Do My Master's Will - Sunday Night Service, New Home Baptist Church Rev. Mack McCollum w/ Combined Choirs -
13. Rocky Road - Joanne & Sonny
14. Why - Sister Mary Lucas and The Harambee
