“Gospel Memories” — Next Broadcast: Sunday, August 7

Hello, everyone! Just a reminder that “Gospel Memories” will be broadcast on Sunday, August 7 from 2:00 – 6:30 a.m. Central Time US on Chicago’s WLUW 88.7 FM. As always, it will be webcast live on www.wluw.org.

Highlights of the August 7 Broadcast:

— Words and Music with Anthony Heilbut, gospel music historian, author of the seminal work The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times, and producer of several gospel music compilations. Anthony, who was interviewed recently by NPR on “All Things Considered,” will talk with “Gospel Memories” at 4:00 a.m. about his involvement in gospel music and his latest releases on the incomparable Marion Williams and a compilation featuring the great gospel pioneers.

— August heralds the annual Gospel Music Workshop of America convention, which will be held this year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To pay tribute to this event, we’ll listen to recordings of GMWA mass and chapter choirs of the past as well as recordings of other festivals and conventions where gospel music was on the stage, such as the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses, the Newport Folk Festival, the Fort Valley Festival, etc.

— A couple of tracks from Blackberry’s new “Best of” CD by the Williams Brothers.

— Gospel recordings that were inducted into the National Recording Register this spring;

— An Apartheid-era South African quartet sings in the beautiful a cappella gospel tradition, demonstrating the power of music to soothe the wounded soul during difficult times;

— Preacher Feature: Calvin P. Dixon, aka “Black Billy Sunday” (1925) – his first recorded sermon: “As An Eagle Stirreth Her Nest.”

…and much more!

So tune in and turn on to the great sound of “Gospel Memories”: think of it as a classic gospel music collection set on “random!”

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