King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan

King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan

King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan

ASIN: B000AMJDQK

Track Listings
 
1. Let's Make a Record
2. Living Bread
3. Devil's Music (scene 1)
4. Power (voodoo version)
5. Take the Lord Along with U
6. Religion From Her (scene 2)
7. I Was Healed by the Wounds
8. Live Like Jesus
9. Scared (scene 3)
10. God's Word
11. Celebrate (scene 4)
12. New World in my View
13. Unceremonious (scene 5)
14. Precious Lord Lead Me On
15. You Alright (scene 6)

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King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan
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Manufacturer: Rope-a-Dope
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AMJDQK
Release Date: 2005-09-06

Tracks:

  1. Let's Make a Record
  2. Living Bread
  3. Devil's Music (scene 1)
  4. Power (voodoo version)
  5. Take the Lord Along with U
  6. Religion From Her (scene 2)
  7. I Was Healed by the Wounds
  8. Live Like Jesus
  9. Scared (scene 3)
  10. God's Word
  11. Celebrate (scene 4)
  12. New World in my View
  13. Unceremonious (scene 5)
  14. Precious Lord Lead Me On
  15. You Alright (scene 6)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars blew me away!.......2007-02-20

the words of Sister Gertrude are so powerful and loved that King brought them back with equally powerful instrumentation. definetely filled me up in a positive light. thanks for the sounds!

5 out of 5 stars King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan .......2006-01-05


Primitive folk art painter, singer, poet, street preacher and "servant of the Lord" in several capacities (including running orphanages and missions in the poorest parts of New Orleans) Sister Gertrude Morgan was born in 1900 and died in 1980. That was long before she received international recognition for her artwork and former Digable Planets DJ and world-renowned remixer and producer King Britt remixed her music into a soulful psychedelic epic.

It's fitting that Morgan once made her home in the Ninth Ward, the destitute area most affected by Hurricane Katrina, because her voice now calls like a righteous, insistent spirit from that spoiled Southern soil. It's also fitting that the woman who ran an orphanage that was blown away by Hurricane Betsy in 1965 finally is being rediscovered, years after her death, in the wake of another, even more devastating, storm.

Long before this album (which ironically was released a short time before Katrina hit) and long before her renaissance hit full swing in 2003, when a limited-edition release of her lone album, Let's Make a Record (originally recorded in 1970), was issued to a small but vocal group of critics and collectors, Morgan was roaming the streets of New Orleans, preaching, singing and shouting from the city's street corners. Dressed in a pristine white nurse's uniform meant to signify both her self-appointed role as a "bride of Christ" and her role as a spiritual healer to the sick souls she saw wandering the streets of the French Quarter, Morgan would preach and sing, accompanied usually by nothing more than a tambourine. This a cappella style eventually was captured on tape in 1970 on the aforementioned Let's Make a Record, which King Britt and his crew recently reinterpreted.

The album that King Britt has made is fervently and unflinchingly religious due to the nature of the lyrics, but the power and passion of Morgan's voice truly transcend any denomination or belief. Less songs than chants, Morgan's improvised sermon songs slowly revolve around a central theme, such as "I Am the Living Bread," until her chanting, circular singing becomes a spiral, spinning her message up through infinity, a process helped along by Britt's alternately ecstatic and euphoric beats. This album is more mantra than Moby, who also famously employed unearthed a cappella soul singers on his enormously successful Play album. These tunes are aimed more at moving your spirit, not your booty.

Morgan literally created many of these memorable tunes on the spot, famously shouting to the original album's engineer, "Let's make a record for our Lord!" before shaking her tambourine and immediately extemporizing on that theme while the fellas with the tape machine rushed to push record.

It's this song, more than any of the others on the album, that really shows the inspired and spiritually uplifting strength of this collaboration. King Britt and his musical partner, Tim Motzer, labored for 12 months to make this epic reinterpretation of Morgan's work into a hymn to her genius, and on Let's Make a Record you can hear that effort. Britt and Motzer rarely let their sonic experimentation detract from Morgan's original intent. In most cases, and especially on Let's Make a Record, it sounds like she was as present at the making of this album as any of the other guest musicians. When a fuzzy '60s skwonking guitar counters her voice or a humming buzz echoes her droning vocals, it lends credibility to King Britt's assertion that Morgan was at the studio in spirit.

Everyone is looking for a way to contribute to the relief effort in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast this holiday season, and this record is one way to make a small but measurable difference in keeping alive a music institution such as Preservation Hall, which always supported Sister Gertrude Morgan and even in its displaced state continues to do so.

4 out of 5 stars An uplifting message with base!! .......2005-12-29

I listened to her music on NPR on my way to work one day. What a powerful message! I had to buy the CD. I was not disappointed. However, I will say this about King Britt's presentation. While some of his musical inserts worked perfectly with her singing, there were times in which I heard so much base that I heard nothing of Sister Gertrude. I would strongly suggest that you compare her original CD with King Britt's version. You can do this for free on NPR.org.

5 out of 5 stars love it.......2005-11-14

very sympathetic remix of sister gertrude. I love her both with and without king britt.

5 out of 5 stars Skip King Britt. .......2005-10-19

Buy Sister Morgan's album without the filler. She doesn't need it. POWER, POWER LORD! Amen.
King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan
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    		King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan
    King Britt
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000ALLLRU
    Release Date: 2005-09-06

    Tracks:

    1. Let's Make a Record
    2. Living Bread
    3. Devil's Music (Scene 1)
    4. Power (Voodoo Version)
    5. Take the Lord Along with You
    6. Religion from Her (Scene 2)
    7. I Was Healed by the Wounds
    8. Live Like Jesus
    9. Scared (Scene 3)
    10. God's Word
    11. Celebrate (Scene 4)
    12. New World in My View
    13. Unceremonious (Scene 5)
    14. Precious Lord Lean Me On
    15. You Alright (Scene 6)

    Album Description

    Think Moby's 'Play' done the right way. This record is guaranteed to be huge on various levels. Morgan fires up traditional hymns with hot chant and spoken reverie, accompanied only by her changing tambourine. This is divine minimalism, a meaty hallelujah in which you can clearly hear the Delta-church origins of Jamaica Rasta-DJ culture and early Bronx hip-hop. 15 total tracks. Ryko. 2005.
    King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		King Britt Presents: Sister Gertrude Morgan
      King Britt
      Manufacturer: Pony Canyon
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0009V1EIC
      Release Date: 2005-08-15

      Tracks:

      1. Let's Make a Record
      2. Living Bread
      3. Devil's Music (Scene 1)
      4. Power (Voodoo Version)
      5. Take the Lord Along with You
      6. Religion from Her (Scene 2)
      7. I Was Healed by the Wounds
      8. Live Like Jesus
      9. Scared (Scene 3)
      10. God's Word
      11. Celebrate (Scene 4)
      12. New World in My View
      13. Unceremonious (Scene 5)
      14. Precious Lord Lean Me On
      15. You Alright (Scene 6)

      Album Description

      Japanese pressing of 2005 album with earliest release. P-Vine.

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