SHIRLEY ANN LEE - Songs Of Light (Repress) - LP - Brown Vinyl

LP - Brown Vinyl 

After wrapping the tracklist for Local Downriver Revival, we knew there was a smaller second record buried in the mountains of tape rescued from Felton Williams’ Ecorse, Michigan, basement. Born at the tail-end of a Depression that darkened the entire United States, Shirley Ann Lee took her talent as a singer and pianist from a grim, overcrowded house in Toledo, Ohio, to a glamorous, gospel-fueled adolescence on the road and in Nashville. It wasn’t until her return to Toledo after a disastrous marriage in Los Angeles that, for the first time in almost two decades of public performances, she found the urge to praise God with her own words.

As the Revival label’s lone “star,” Shirley Ann Lee was afforded dozens of opportunities to record her songs, but only six sides managed to trickle out on 45 between 1967 and 1969. Using Revival’s aborted Shirley Ann Lee Radio Hour program as our guide, we’ve taken the best of her proper studio recordings, in-the-moment sketches, out-of-tune piano demos, and rehearsals with young kids talking in the background and created the Shirley Ann Lee album that never was. A one-LP revival of an unheralded gospel giant that is sure to convert the non-believers.

Tracklist: 

A1        Introduction
A2        All I Have To Depend On
A3        I Shall Not Be Moved
A4        Stop Look & Listen
A5        You Better Run
A6        There's A Light
A7        Everything Gonna Be Alright
A8        You've Been So Good To Me
A9        Bless Quietness

B1        Intermission
B2        How Can I Lose
B3        Time
B4        Stay On Your Knees
B5        Someday
B6        Get Back
B7        Walk Through The Valley
B8        Please Accept My Prayer
B9        I've Got To Make It