Various Artists: Father And Sons (Spirit Feel)
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 1986
IF YOU'VE any interest in gospel music at all, this should be an essential purchase. Compiled by Anthony Heilbut, author of seminal tome The Gospel Sound, it is a record of influence being handed down from one "generation" of male quartet singers to another, and its mega-great.
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