Various - From Gospel To Soul - When The Church Hits The Charts (2008)

Take the Black man (the musician): on the one hand, his cradle’s been rocked since birth by poignant and often torrid songs belted out in churches; on the other hand, he’s been tortured every morning by the blues. It’s not surprising he doesn’t know which Saint to turn to. Why not try and bring together the essence of each expression, the collective and the religious, the personal and the profane, which he felt so deeply inside? There were many singers who came out of church choirs to go up onstage… often returning where they came from. Accompanying Sam Cooke and Ray Charles, the two inventors of the genre, were some magnificent voices that managed to make a success of this solid fusion which, after gospel and the blues, would soon have the name soul music.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe - How Far From God (2:59)
1.02 - Mahalia Jackson - Dig A Little Deeper (2:37)
1.03 - Marie Knight - I Thank You Jesus (3:07)
1.04 - Sister Wynona Carr - The Ball Game (3:09)
1.05 - Brother Joe May - Search Me Lord (3:04)
1.06 - Prof. Alex Bradford & The Bradford Specials - Too Close To Heaven (3:07)
1.07 - Rev. Anderson Johnson - God Don't Like It (2:35)
1.08 - The Trumpeteers - Milky White Blues (2:34)
1.09 - The Selah Singers - Down Here I've Done My Best (2:34)
1.10 - The Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi - Our Father (Who Art In HEaven) (3:02)
1.11 - The Dixie Hummingbirds - Trouble In My Way (2:49)
1.12 - The Soul Stirrers - Jesus Gave Me Water (2:43)
1.13 - Roy Brown - Love Don't Love Nobody (2:45)
1.14 - Bobby 'Blue' Bland With Ike Turner - Drifting (3:08)
1.15 - Gatemouth Moore - Highway 61 Blues (2:40)
1.16 - Little Richard - Ain't That Good News (2:54)
1.17 - Ray Charles - Feelin' Sad (2:50)
1.18 - Dinah Washington - Good Daddy Blues (2:29)
1.19 - Faye Adams - Shake A Hand (2:53)
1.20 - Lavern Baker - Soul On Fire (3:07)
1.21 - The Dominoes - That's What You're Doing To Me (2:24)
1.22 - The Du-Droppers - Somebody Work On My Baby's Mind (2:29)
1.23 - The Spiders - I Didn't Want To Do It (2:48)
1.24 - The "5" Royales - Baby Don't Do It (2:41)