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Listener's Circle Vol. 25

by Music Maker Recordings

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Before we had kids, my wife Denise and I would often drive back roads and stop at gas stations and small towns to ask if folks knew any interesting old traditional musicians. Driving through the rural countryside of South Carolina in 1995, we stopped at a small antique shop in Ridgeway. After talking with the owner, he called up his friends Elder James and Mother Pauline Goins to come over.

Elder James, born in 1921, was the Pastor for the Spiritual Holiness Church in nearby Simpson, SC. He and his wife, Mother Pauline, had been taking care of their congregation their entire career.

We set up our gear in that small antique shop in Ridgeway and this is what Elder James and Mother Pauline sat down and recorded.

The hypnotic guitar playing of Elder James with his incredible lyre-like picking is as if he just got off the boat from West Africa. Listening to this record is a glimpse of how African American Gospel music sounded like before 1900.

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released June 20, 2019

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Music Maker Recordings Hillsborough, North Carolina

Music Maker Foundation tends the roots of traditional American music by meeting the day-to-day needs of the artists who create it, ensuring their voices are heard, and giving all people access to our nation’s hidden musical treasures.

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