WASHINGTON PHILLIPS What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? LP/1920s Gospel 78s/OOP
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WASHINGTON PHILLIPS 'What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?' LP (US, Mississippi Records Records, Catalogue #MR-006) Brand new/unplayed copy of SOLD OUT/OUT OF PRINT limited 2nd edition (printed cover edition) Mississippi Records label LP edition (released in the year 2008) collection of rare raw gospel 78s by Washington Phillips.
(NOTE: SOLD OUT/OUT OF PRINT/LIMITED EDITION OF 500!)
'Compilation of 78s by Washington Phillips. Phillips is one of the unique gospel artists of all time. He played an instrument that was either the dolciola (a now extinct chimey sounding piano) or something entirely home made. No one knows for sure. He sings with a beautiful voice, his instrument providing a celestial and otherworldly background. His songs are like lullabies straight from the spirit world to you. No one sounds like Washington Phillips and no house should be without a copy of this early Mississippi release.'
- The music of Washington Phillips has been covered by Ry Cooder, Mogwai, Will Oldham, Phish, Ralph Stanley, Mavis Staples, Colin Stetson, and Gillian Welch.
- "The plucked string instrument sounds feather-light and blurry, the musical equivalent of dust motes floating in a sunny room; Phillips wheezes at times like he's about to pass out from the spirit." --Mike Powell, Pitchfork
- "He played an instrument that sounded like an electric zither run through a Leslie speaker cabinet, showing you a heaven populated by ghosts." --Greil Marcus, Salon
- "Surely, Washington Phillips, with his modified zither (if that's what it was) and his gutbucket sermons, never set out to be weird. And if Phillips nevertheless was weird -- well, weird to whom?" --Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker
- "Washington Phillips came from an America that remembered slavery, and his recorded voice and string playing scratch a vivid portrait out of the dust, of a rural South drifting further from memory." --Justin Allen, Creosote Journal
Tracks on this LP are as follows:
- Train Your Child
- Paul And Silas In Jail
- I Was Born To Preach The Gospel
- Mother's Last Words To Her Son
- You Can't Stop The Tattler - Part 2
- Take Your Burden To The Lord
- What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?
- Denomination Blues - Part One
- Denomination Blues - Part Two
- I Had A Good Mother And Father
- Lift Him Up, That's All
- Mother's Last Words To Her Daughter
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