Various Artists - Christians Catch Hell: Gospel Roots, 1976-79

In 1977 Henry Stone invited Thomas Spann down to Florida. Spann was founder and leader of The Brooklyn All Stars, one of the most celebrated gospel quartets in the US; Stone headed TK Records, the biggest independent record company in the world.The All Stars' contract with Jewel Records just happened to be ending. He called me and asked me would I meet him in Miami, recalls Spann. And I flew down to Miami, and I met him and we went to this place that sold all these motor homes. He said, Pick out one, pick you out one that you want. And I did so. I drove it off the lot that same day. I didn't take a plane back. I drove that motor home back to North Carolina. A scorching, sublimely soulful survey of the Gospel Roots label, subsidiary of the mighty TK Records, at the height of the Miami Sound.With a glorious forty-page booklet, including thorough artist-interviews and rare photographs. Mastered at Abbey Road.