And we’re back for Easter with the return of our Sunday Gospel series. For the first edition this year we’ve got a guest mix from Havana Soul’s Peter Reyes. He’s dipped into gospel territory during many of his guest sets on A Downtown Affair, so it’s a pleasure to host this focused mix from him. We may not be back every week this time, but stay tuned as we continue the series throughout the summer.

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Paradise “Can’t You See The Light”
The Gospel Miracles “Building Up Myself”
The Rance Allen Group “Where Did I Go Wrong”
The Sisters “God Never Failed Me Yet”
Charisma Time “Romans 12:1″
The Doris Johnson Singers “He’s Always There”
The Voices Of Fellowship “Jesus Stopped By”
Christ Church Apostolic Choir “If You Don’t Praise Him”
Andrea Vereen & The St. Marks Choir “Joy Bells”
Larnelle “Let Jesus Do It For You”
Twinkie Clark “Jesus, I’ll Never Forget”
People’s Choir Of I.H.M. “Mass Of Drums”

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This week’s gospel set centers on cuts from the late eighties. A bit of an acquired taste, but some bright moments shine through the dated production, cheap keyboards and emphatic vocal deliveries.

Sunday Gospel [07]
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Intro
The Fords “You Can Count On Me” (Tyscot)
The Mathis Singers “On The Brink of a Miracle” (J&B)
AGE Ensemble “Keep Me” (S.E.W. Productions)
Bennie White Jr. and The Faith Harmonizers “I Have A Friend” (Studio Unicorn)
The New Gospel-Airs “Clap Your Hands & Praise the Lord” (The Blessed Trinity)
Jeffrey LaValley and The New Jerusalem Young Adult Choir “Joyful Noise” (Spirit & Truth)

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Back again with another short mix of gospel music for your Sunday listening pleasure. Starts off uptempo before slowing down with a previously-unreleased song off of The Relatives’ reissue LP from Heavy Light Records. Closes out with a couple scratchy 45s from NC. Enjoy.

Sunday Gospel [06]
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Intro
Truth & Devotion “I’m So Happy” (Tyscot)
Hollis Stone “The Bridge (Millenial Roadmap)” (Sonfire)
The Relatives “Leave Something Worthwhile” (Heavy Light)
The True Followers Of Christ “We Make The Place In Which We Dwell” (Pitt)
The Supreme Juniors “Rise Again”

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This week we have a guest mix from Seth Kolski of Sweet Power on KUSP Central Coast Public Radio. Be sure to check out his sets each week in their archives. Next Sunday The Relatives will be playing a free show at the Damrosch Park Bandshell with Mavis Staples as part of Lincoln Center’s Out Of Doors.

Sunday Gospel [05]
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Earl Washington “Come Back” (Alabaster Sounds)
Gloster Williams “Touch My Life” (Gospel Roots)
Kevin Burroughs Neeley “Have You Considered?” (Great Vision)
Paradise “Stop and Think” (Onyx Int.)
Signs & Wonders “Let Him Have His Way” (Saint Mark)
Mel-Vonne “Be Still” (Celesta)

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For this week’s post we’ve got a very special mix by Red Greg from the UK. He put together a short set of his favorite gospel music and if you’re familiar with his other mixes, you know to expect top notch selections.

Sunday Gospel [04]: Red Greg
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Intro
Salt of The Earth – Love Light II
Howard Lemon Singers – For The Children
Supreme Jubilees – You Don’t Know
Lois Snead – I Love To Call You
Gwen Carter – God Is So Good To Me
Gospel Unlimited – I Found Joy

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Our first guest mix for Sunday Gospel comes from McBoing Boing. He’s a frequent contributor to Wax Poetics with a wide range of tastes so it’s a real privilege to have a set from him for this series. No track list on this one, so folks will have to play the guessing game!

Sunday Gospel [03]: McBoing Boing’s “If You See Me Doing Wrong”
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Slowing things down a bit for our second post in this series. Here are four soul tracks to close out your weekend. A falsetto driven opener from The Gospel Stylistics, the wailing lead vocals of James Sanders with Raleigh NC’s Gospel Legends, the moody title cut from The Church of Jesus Young Adult Choir LP and a closer written, arranged and sung by Georgia’s June Bonner.

Sunday Gospel [02]
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The Gospel Stylistics – Somebody Really Loves You (Champ)
James Sanders & The Gospel Legends from the East Coast – Come On Up To My Glory (HSE)
The Church of Jesus Young Adult Choir – Salvation Is Free (Savoy)
soloists: Ronald Logan and Patty Stephens
Pee Wee & The Psalmsters – I’ll Make It Home (ShurFine Gospel)
soloist: June Bonner

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We’re starting a new mix series here on Let’s Get Serious where every Sunday we’ll post a short set of gospel music. Light on editing and mixing, it’ll be a chance to showcase full songs many of them with some crossover appeal. We’ll switch it up a bit each week and plan on having guest posts from many of the DJs we’ve featured on A Downtown Affair.

For the first post, I’ve decided to include five dance tracks. Obscure modern soul leaning cuts alongside a Grammy nominated producer and a Clark sister on the Westbound subsidiary, S.O.G.

Sunday Gospel [01]
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Robert Nahwah Smith – You’re The Guide (Daystar)
Thomas Whitfield – Backslider (Onyx)
Rodena Preston & Voices Of Deliverance* – If You Want To Be Happy (Birthright)
soloist: Albert Hartdige
Elbernita “Twinkie” Clark – Awake O Zion (S.O.G.)
Cash Money – Seeking (Rapture)

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Going to handle posting this mix a little bit differently. No download, instead just limited physical copies in handmade packaging. Send an email to NewFunOnTheWater [at] GMAIL [dot] COM with an address and I’ll put a copy in the mail. In the meantime, a streaming sample is below.

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**UPDATE: ALL OUT**

Mike and I decided to put together a little bundle of tracks for Valentine’s Day. Most of the songs played each week on A Downtown Affair are love songs in one way or another, but this is a chance for a us to slow it down a touch and show off the tender side of Let’s Get Serious. Enjoy!