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v/a - good god! born again funk - numero group - cd

Genre: Funk / Soul

1. Pastor TL Barrett and The Youth For Christ Choir - Like A Ship
2. Ada Richards - Im Drunk and Real High (In The Spirit Of God)
3. Gospel Comforters - Yes God Is Real
4. Golden Echoes - Packing A Grip
5. Lucy Sister Soul Rodgers - Pray A Little Longer
6. Gospel Soul Revivals - If Jesus Came Today"\
7. Brother Samuel Cheatham - Troubles Of The World
8. Victory Travelers - I Know ve Been Changed
9. Jordan Travelers - God Will Answer
10. Inspirational Gospel Singers - The Same Thing It Took
11. Sacred Four - Somebody Watching You
12. Andrew Wartts and The Gospel Storytellers - Peter and John
13. Holy Disciples Of Chicago III - I Know Him
14. Sensational Five Singing Sons - Share Your Love (With The Master)
15. Little Chris
16. Sensational Five - Coming On Strong Staying Along
17. Chicago Travelers - Been Trying
18. James Austin

Four years later, Numero returns with not quite a New Testament, rather a re-examination of a weighty tome. Born Again Funk lends new ears to a joyful strain of American composers and performers unafraid of expressing their devotion with both inspiration and invention. They were faithful to a spirit, not to an ordained sound. Check!

Not a resurrection, but a rebirth. The Numero Group’s 2006 release Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal examined what seemed to be a conundrum: gospel singers performing pious gospel songs, and devoutly, but doing so amid hot, sweaty, earthy sounds drunk on the same moonshine downed by any blues singer thumbing his way up north from the Mississippi delta. If the central premise was to grapple with a “funky” trend in gospel, forgive us for staring perhaps a bit too intently at the collision of sacred and profane we thought we saw on those LPs and 45s. This music was always sacred, and decidedly so.