In Memory of Willa Ward-Royster

Artista: Ward, Clara

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: GOSF

Catalogo: 1508

Faixas: 1.1 When I Get Home
1.2 Day Is Past and Gone
1.3 Come Ye Disconsolate
1.4 My Jesus Is All and All
1.5 I’m Bound for Higher Ground
1.6 Prayer Changes Things
1.7 How Far Am I from Canaan
1.8 Tell the Angels
1.9 Glory, Glory Hallelujah
1.10 God’s Amazing Love
1.11 I’m Climbing Higher and Higher
1.12 Farther on Up the Road
1.13 Oh Lord How Long
1.14 Climbing Jacob’s Ladder
1.15 Great Is the Lord
1.16 When the Crown Him Lord of All
1.17 Nearer My God to Thee
1.18 Talk About Rain
1.19 Our God Is Real
1.20 Swing Low Sweet Chariot
1.21 I’ll Be There
1.22 That Awful Day Will Surely Come
1.23 Good News
1.24 Anywhere in Glory
1.25 God Is God

Apart from outdrawing contemporary blues and jazz artists for live appearances, Clara Ward and her Famous Ward Singers had no other peers in selling records. They kept an earthy sound, despite refined arrangements and accomplished musicianship. Soprano Marion Williams (later the celebrated leader of the super gospel group, the Stars of Faith) is the featured soloist on many of the songs on the CD. Gospel expert Anthony Heilbut has contributed with intriguing observations in the notes, written by Robert Sacr’. These 25 recordings span the years 1949-1958.