Jake Hess – Up With People (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:56 minutes | 617 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
As the lead vocalist of the pioneering Statesmen Quartet, Jake Hess was not only an instrumental force in expanding the popularity and boundaries of Southern gospel, but his outsized, dramatic style was also a crucial influence on the development of rock & roll, thanks to his standing as the favorite singer of the young Elvis Presley. William Jesse Hess was born December 24, 1927, in Limestone County, AL, the youngest of 12 children born into an impoverished sharecropping family. His father, Stovall, and some of his older brothers earned extra money performing and teaching in area singing schools, and at the age of five Jake made his debut with the family group, delivering a solo rendition of “Harmonies of Heaven.”
Tracklist:
01. Up With People
02. God Takes Good Care of Me
03. I Wonder What the People Will Find to Talk About Now
04. God Broke My Heart
05. I’ll Sing On In Glory Someday
06. I’ve Been Up On the Mountain
07. These Hands
08. Do You Know
09. How Wonderful Is God
10. But for the Grace of God
11. Let God Abide
12. Thou Art the God of the Bles’t
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