Sam Cooke - Complete Recordings of Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers '2002

Tracks list

Tracklist:

Disc: 1
1. Come, Let Us Go Back to God
2. Peace in the Valley
3. Im Gonna Build on That Shore
4. Im Gonna Build on That Shore
5. Im on the Firing Line
6. Im on the Firing Line
7. Joy, Joy to My Soul
8. Until Jesus Calls Me Home
9. Jesus Done Just What He Said
10. Jesus Gave Me Water
11. Hes My Rock (Wait on Jesus)
12. How Far Am I from Canaan?
13. Christ Is All
14. It Wont Be Very Long
15. It Wont Be Very Long (take 2 - alternate)
16. It Wont Be Very Long (take 3 - alternate)
17. Jesus Will Lead Me to That Promised Land (take 1 - alternate)
18. Jesus Will Lead Me to That Promised Land [incomplete] (take 2 - alternate)
19. Jesus Will Lead Me to That Promised Land
20. Just Another Day
21. Let Me Go Home (take 1 - alternate)
22. Let Me Go Home
23. Jesus Paid the Debt
24. Jesus Paid the Debt (take 2 - alternate)
25. How Far Am I from Canaan?
26. How Far Am I from Canaan? [incomplete] (take 1 - alternate)
27. How Far Am I from Canaan? (take 3 - alternate)
28. Someday Somewhere
29. Someday Somewhere

Disc: 2
1. End of My Journey
2. Hell Welcome Me
3. Hes My Friend Until the End
4. Hes My Friend Until the End (take 2 - alternate)
5. I Have a Friend Above All Others
6. Come and Go to That Land
7. Come and Go to That Land (take 1 - alternate)
8. Come and Go to That Land (take 3 - alternate)
9. Id Give Up All My Sins and Serve the Lord
10. Im So Happy in the Service of the Lord
11. All Right Now
12. All Right Now (take 2 - alternate)
13. All Right Now (take 4 - alternate)
14. Hell Make a Way 2:36
15. Hell Make a Way (take 2 - alternate)
16. Jesus, Ill Never Forget
17. Jesus, Ill Never Forget (take 5 - alternate)
18. Any Day Now
19. Any Day Now (take 6 alternate)
20. One More River
21. Nearer to Thee
22. Im So Glad (Trouble Dont Last Always)
23. Be with Me Jesus
24. Hes My Guide (take 4 - alternate)
25. Hes My Guide [incomplete] (take 12 - alternate)
26. Hes My Guide (take 13)
27. Pilgrim of Sorrow
28. Pray [incomplete]
29. The Last Mile of the Way [incomplete] (take 1 - alternate)
30. The Last Mile of the Way (take 2A - alternate)

Disc: 3
1. The Last Mile of the Way
2. Hes So Wonderful
3. Touch the Hem of His Garment
4. Jesus, Wash Away My Troubles
5. Farther Along
6. Must Jesus Bear This Cross Alone?
7. Pilgrim of Sorrow
8. Happy in Love
9. I Need You Now
10. Ill Come Running Back to You
11. Lovable
12. I Dont Want to Cry
13. Thats All I Need to Know
14. Forever
15. Lord Remember Me
16. Thats Heaven to Me (take 1 - alternate)
17. Thats Heaven to Me
18. Were You There? [false starts] (takes 1-4)
19. Were You There? (take 5 - alternate)
20. Were You There?
21. Mean Old World (take 3 - alternate)
22. Mean Old World
23. I Have a Friend Above All Others
24. Be with Me Jesus
25. Nearer to Thee

While the pop classics by the grit-and-honey singer reached a broader audience,
Sam Cookes formative music with the Soul Stirrers, recorded for the Specialty
label, ranks with both his best and gospels best. Only 19 when he was recruited
in 1950 to replace the groups venerable R.H. Harris, Cooke developed the
signature style he would carry into the popular arena while he was still singing
church music. Disc 1 shows the raw passion of a vocalist who has yet to apply
the polish for which he would become known. By disc 2, Cooke is no longer
tentative in replacing a legend but asserting an irrepressible musical identity.
Disc 3 demonstrates his growth as both a vocal master and an ambitious
songwriter--most famously on Touch the Hem of His Garment--while documenting his
transition as a solo artist into the secular arena. Among the revelations of the
sets 83 tracks, the stripped-down arrangements on the alternate takes of Come
and Go to That Land anticipate the rise of sacred steel, while the vocal
call-and-response over the organ bedrock of All Right Now is as rapturous as
gospel gets. After the various takes of Were You There? show how Cooke could
take the most familiar material and make it his own, the final three tracks
capture his electrifying impact in live performance.

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