Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens By Amanda on June 9, 2009 8:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
I was moved to confess the other day that I'd never seen The Blues Brothers (a sin of omission now remedied) because I was doing some reading on Naomi Shelton and Gospel Queens and someone on the Internet mentioned her music was in the movie. Further research suggests this is not true, but whatever.
She has an album (her first full length!) from Daptone called What Have You Done, My Brother? There's a mention of a son going to Iraq but apart from that everything about this glorious wonderment of a record, from the album cover to the harmonies to the sacred steel of embarrassing richness, could be straight from 1965.
I included "A Change is Gonna Come" on my last 8tracks. Check out the YouTube trailer ye sinners and melt:
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