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In the mid-20th century, a "potent creative movement" was documented in Louisville, Ky., as small recording studios and record labels such as Sensational Sounds, Grace Gospel, and Blessed captured the sound and spirit of the city's gospel choirs and quartets.
Over the years, "those powerful, invaluable recordings, and the stories of the women and men behind them, became in danger of being lost forever," says Robert F.den, founder of the Black Gospel Music Preservation Program at Baylor University.
Now, more than 50 years after those recordings were made, the Louisville Story Program has completed a three-year project to preserve those songs and the stories of the women and men who made them possible, the Courier-Journal reports.
I'm Glad About It: The Legacy of Gospel Music in Louisville, 1958-1981 is a box set featuring 83 archival recordings lovingly restored from the original vinyl, a 208-page full-color book documenting Louisville's rich Black gospel music legacy written by the people who have built that legacy, and a companion double LP.
The digital archive includes photos, videos, and 1,000 songs by 125 gospel artists.
"This type of preservation project urgently needs to happen in other cities while the elders who carry the history are still among
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