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God's Got It (2018 edition)

by Reverend Charlie Jackson

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    * Download includes PDF with replication of full art & extensive liner notes of the CD booklet
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Packaged in classic jewelcase with 16-page booklet featuring rare photos, complete discography, extensive liner notes covering Rev. Jackson's life and career, and another set of notes on the Booker label by Lynn Abbott (who wrote the authoritative book on Elder Utah Smith, published by CaseQuarter in 2009)

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    Get all 4 CaseQuarter releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of I Got Two Wings, Singing Songs Of Praise, You Without Sin, Cast The First Stone, and God's Got It (2018 edition). , and , .

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>>> God's Got It is the Essential Collection of Reverend Charlie Jackson's powerful work on record (all of his vital 1970s 7" Booker label and private press singles). And oh yes there is more >>>

>>> To Celebrate/Commemorate the 90th Anniversary of Reverend Charlie Jackson's birth (July 11, 1932), our good brother Adam Lore [50 Miles of Elbow Room] has lovingly curated / created the most extensive documentation ever published on the life and music of Rev. Jackson. Collecting years of his own research, rare photos, artifacts, interviews, music, archival videos, more. A deep dive and wonderfully revealing for folks who are already fans & newcomers to the work of this singular artist. Go here for that treasure trove, for real: 50milesofelbowroom.com/articles/576-reverend-charlie-jackson.html

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Reverend Charlie Jackson: vocals and electric guitar
Brother Ike Gordon, Laura Davis, Caravan No.2 of Zachary: vocals
Mary Bennett, Ike Gordon, Frances Jackson,
Johnny Jackson: chorus vocals, clapping


“Like a sanctified version of John Lee Hooker, Reverend Charlie Jackson plays raw, slashing electric guitar and erupts in urgent hallelujahs as occasional backup singers inject call-and-response fervor. Jackson’s gruff, exuberant vocals celebrate salvation, but he doesn’t portray it as a painless process: ‘Wrapped Up Tangled Up in Jesus’ depicts a soul in turmoil. These aren’t polished recordings; befitting their origins in tiny Louisiana studios, the songs boast crackling, distorted sound and are all the more effective for it. The rowdiest rock and roll has nothing on Reverend Jackson.”
–Jon Young, Mother Jones

The CaseQuarter label launched with this astonishing collection of 70s vintage gospel singles in 2003. Its release garnered a great deal of attention on its release from all who heard these vital expressions for the first time. This attention was very gratifying to all, Rev. Jackson included. The original CQ CD edition of this work went out of print not too long after he passed (in 2006). Needing to be made available again (because, needing to be!), this re-mastered, re-sequenced, ultimate edition presents the work anew, with exceptionally high-resolution vinyl transfers (the transfers used for the Crypt Records LP edition of this work) and (!) also includes an additional since-discovered Booker single (both dynamite sides, of course!).


"In the 1970s, this Mississippi-born man of God made a series of holy-blues singles for the tiny Booker and Jackson labels. This set has 'em all: heated sermons of need, devotion and joy, blessed by Jackson's thunder-and-Lightnin' Hopkins voice and crusty-tremelo, railroad-boogie riffing." –David Fricke, Rolling Stone

Ever since Reverend Charlie Jackson’s Booker singles were discovered by gospel collectors in the early 1970s and began to trickle out to a wider audience, Charlie Jackson’s primal, funky guitar riffs have astounded listeners. Raw and unadorned and at other times spare and lyrical, his Booker and Jackson label recordings are infused with sanctified energy and singing. Further to his own singles here are records by Brother Ike Gordon, Caravan No. 2 of Zachary, and Laura Davis, which feature Reverend Jackson as accompanist. Until this album’s initial 2003 release, these records had never been collected together and had never been issued on CD.

This updated 20-song set includes a 16-page booklet with rare photos, complete discography, and extensive (and updated) liner notes covering Reverend Jackson’s life and career.

“Total world-class, hair-standing-up-on-the-back-of-yer-neck, jaw-droppingly righteous, beyond-category music of the highest order.”
–Rob Cambre, Where Y’at, New Orleans


* Full art & notes included as PDF booklet with Digital Album. 

credits

released August 5, 2003

Original recordings produced by Reverend Robert Booker
and Reverend Charlie Jackson.

Tracks 1–11, 13, 20 : original singles transferred and mastered
by Rick Rosen at the Swank Mobile Studio.
Additional mastering on these tracks by Tim Warren in 2018.

Tracks 12, 14–19 : original singles transferred by Steve Grauberger
at the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture.

Cover Photo/s by Lynn Abbott.
Reverend Charlie Jackson and parishioners, May 12, 1985,
Second House of Prayer Baptist Church, Shrewsbury, Louisiana.

Inside Booklet Photos by Clare O’Dea.
Reverend Charlie Jackson, June 23, 2001,
at his home in Baker, Louisiana

Produced by Kevin Nutt for CaseQuarter.

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CaseQuarter Montgomery, Alabama

The CaseQuarter label was established to document and make available gospel / sacred recordings of the Southern U.S., both contemporary & historical.

Four vital albums have been released to date, each featuring singular electric guitar accompaniment.

CQ producer Kevin Nutt's “Sinner’s Crossroads” broadcasts can be heard weekly on WFMU.org, the greatest radio station on Earth.
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