Consumer Guide Album

Swan Silvertones: Amen Amen Amen: The Essential Collection [Rock Beat/Archive Alive, 2015]
Seven 1952-53 tracks originally on Specialty, where baritone shouter Solomon Womack was always there to rough things up, followed by 19 1957-63s from Vee-Jay, where Claude Jeter's sweet, mellow, transported tenor, which inspired countless singers who couldn't match it even when named Al Green, dominates as if he's buried all sinful shows of egotism 20,000 leagues down in the earth to which we will all return. There'll always be a sense in which I prefer the Soul Stirrers' somewhat mellower Rebert Harris simply because he's less awesome and otherworldly. But there's a reason heaven-seeking Christians and God-denying sinners preach Jeter to the unenlightened with equal fervor. So for the final hour here, chances are you'll be inspired to try and understand exactly what that reason is. A