SHIRLEY ANN LEE – Songs Of Light (Repress) – LP – Brown Vinyl

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LP – Brown Vinyl

After wrapping the tracklist for Local Downriver Revival, we knew there was a smaller second record buried in the mountains of tape rescued from Felton Williams Ecorse, Michigan, basement. Born at the tail-end of a Depression that darkened the entire United States, Shirley Ann Lee took her talent as a singer and pianist from a grim, overcrowded house in Toledo, Ohio, to a glamorous, gospel-fueled adolescence on the road and in Nashville. It wasnt until her return to Toledo after a disastrous marriage in Los Angeles that, for the first time in almost two decades of public performances, she found the urge to praise God with her own words.

As the Revival labels lone star, Shirley Ann Lee was afforded dozens of opportunities to record her songs, but only six sides managed to trickle out on 45 between 1967 and 1969. Using Revivals aborted Shirley Ann Lee Radio Hour program as our guide, weve taken the best of her proper studio recordings, in-the-moment sketches, out-of-tune piano demos, and rehearsals with young kids talking in the background and created the Shirley Ann Lee album that never was. A one-LP revival of an unheralded gospel giant that is sure to convert the non-believers.

Tracklist:

A1 Introduction
A2 All I Have To Depend On
A3 I Shall Not Be Moved
A4 Stop Look & Listen
A5 You Better Run
A6 There’s A Light
A7 Everything Gonna Be Alright
A8 You’ve Been So Good To Me
A9 Bless Quietness

B1 Intermission
B2 How Can I Lose
B3 Time
B4 Stay On Your Knees
B5 Someday
B6 Get Back
B7 Walk Through The Valley
B8 Please Accept My Prayer
B9 I’ve Got To Make It