Reverend Robert Ballinger CD: The King's Highway (2-CD)

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Reverend Robert Ballinger: The King's Highway (2-CD)

2-CD Digisleeve with 36-page booklet, 40 tracks. Total playing time approx. 90 min.

A double CD with recordings by Reverend Robert Ballinger kicks off the new gospel CD series on Bear Family!
Mostly with a trio, accompanied by bass (Willie Dixon) and drums (Odie Payne), the pianist and singer recorded some of the most powerful Blues-drenched Gospel numbers in the 1950s and early '60s.
Musically, the Reverend's vocals are more reminiscent of blues and R&B shouters than of traditional gospel singing in African-American houses of worship; as a pianist, he impresses with his extreme, pounding playing in the best barrelhouse tradition.
Recordings for United, Chess, Artistic and Peacock.
Extensive liner notes by Chicago author Bill Dahl, carefully remastered recordings.

From the 1930s on, Chicago served as the nurturing cradle of modern gospel music, thanks to the incredibly prolific Thomas A. Dorsey and his small army of protégés, choirs, and choruses. Every so often, an outsider with his own concept crashed the Windy City's burgeoning gospel scene—and sanctified evangelist Rev. Robert Ballinger's thundering musical vision was about as close to rock and roll as you could come while still working in service of the man above. Rev. Ballinger entered a Chicago recording studio for the first time in late 1952 under the auspices of United Records.

The seven sides wouldn’t see light of day until Delmark Records, now owner of the United’s archives, featured five of the reverend’s sides on a 1997 gospel CD. The piano-pounding Ballinger debuted in 1955 on Chess Records with an inspiring rendition of Sister Rosetta Tharpe's rollicking This Train as blues legend Willie Dixon applied thundering bass (Dixon dug it so much that he wrote My Babe around its chord changes and melody), then migrated over to Eli Toscano's Artistic logo in 1958 for another one-off single before cutting two wild early '60s albums for Don Robey's Peacock label—and they're all on this compilation.

There was nothing stodgy about the Cincinnati-born Reverend Robert Ballinge, he rocketed straight for the heavens every time out, punching his 88s with two-fisted abandon and unleashing a gritty vocal attack not all that far removed from that of Ray Charles. Give Reverend Robert Ballinger a chance, and he's liable to save your soul with his high-flying sanctified houserockers!

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Interpret: Reverend Robert Ballinger
Album titlle: The King's Highway (2-CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5397102175756
weight in Kg 0.115

Ballinger, Reverend Robert - The King's Highway (2-CD) CD 1
01	Swing Down Chariot	Reverend Robert Ballinger
02	No Bread	Reverend Robert Ballinger
03	Somebody Saved Me	Reverend Robert Ballinger
04	He's My Everything	Reverend Robert Ballinger
05	The Little Black Train	Reverend Robert Ballinger
06	I John Saw The Number	Reverend Robert Ballinger
07	The King's Way	Reverend Robert Ballinger
08	New World	Reverend Robert Ballinger
09	Standing In The Safety Zone	Reverend Robert Ballinger
10	This Train	Reverend Robert Ballinger
11	God Rode In A Windstorm	Reverend Robert Ballinger
12	Oil In Your Vessel	Reverend Robert Ballinger
13	Drop Your Net	Reverend Robert Ballinger
14	Don't Wonder 'Bout Him	Reverend Robert Ballinger
15	There Are Days	Reverend Robert Ballinger
16	Poor Wayfaring Pilgrim	Reverend Robert Ballinger
17	Holy Spirit	Reverend Robert Ballinger

Ballinger, Reverend Robert - The King's Highway (2-CD) CD 2
01	Two Wings	Reverend Robert Ballinger
02	Hold My Body Down	Reverend Robert Ballinger
03	So Glad	Reverend Robert Ballinger
04	Working The Road	Reverend Robert Ballinger
05	How I Got Over	Reverend Robert Ballinger
06	Something Has Happened	Reverend Robert Ballinger
07	Hold On 'Til Jesus Comes	Reverend Robert Ballinger
08	Walk The Streets Of The City	Reverend Robert Ballinger
09	Our John Saw The Number	Reverend Robert Ballinger
10	Joy In His Company	Reverend Robert Ballinger
11	I Got To Tell It	Reverend Robert Ballinger
12	He Rode	Reverend Robert Ballinger
13	Let It Be	Reverend Robert Ballinger
14	Standing In The Safety Zone (Peacock)	Reverend Robert Ballinger
15	The Life I Sing About	Reverend Robert Ballinger
16	My Soul Loves Jesus	Reverend Robert Ballinger
17	Sweet Lamb	Reverend Robert Ballinger
18	Walk On By Faith	Reverend Robert Ballinger

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From: Olaf Haspel On:17 Sep 2021

Ihr seht mich beeindruckt!

Habe heute Abend das Booklet nochmal studiert… was ein Zufall das man der unglaublichen Fülle an Artists den Riecher in diese Richtung gestreckt hat… Hut ab.. muss eine unfassbare Arbeit gewesen sein … ein release das auch bei jeden Liebhaber von Blues und Rhythm‘n‘Blues zuhause stehen sollte…

From: John Spencely On:26 May 2021

Rev Ballinger’s style is all out roof-shaking

Although I’d seen the name from Peacock 45s on record lists, Reverend Robert Ballinger was a great mystery to me. Aside from the Little Richard post-Specialty numbers and the pre-fame Sam Cooke, I’d indeed not listened to a great deal gospel. So, I was pleasantly surprised what a joy this double CD was when it came through the door recently.
Rev Ballinger’s style is all out roof-shaking not a ballad in sight; recorded with his piano and voice being backed by bass and drums. Lots of call and response on offer in a fervour I’m most familiar with in an RnB capacity. Rev Ballinger’s
left hand could (and should) have graced many a secular RnB session too, but his love of the Lord stopped him doing anything as crass.
All the numbers come from sessions from 1955 until his untimely death in 1964. Starting off at Chess in ’55 with a great version of Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s ‘This Train’. The great Willie Dixon is walking the strings on this as he would on later that year on Little Walter’s rewrite ‘My Babe’. Peacock became his home in the early 60’s and it was there he cut great numbers like ‘The Little Black Train’ and ‘Swing Down Sweet Chariot’. He was obviously a steady seller as Peacock put out a bunch of 45s and a couple of long-players.
Despite being an active minister and having a record contract, no photographs have yet been discovered of him; attempts to find out more information died along with his only son a few years ago. I think this double cd from Bear Family goes as far as it is possible to redress the balance of a certain neglect in his corner.

From: Dave 'Daddy Cool' Booth On:29 Mar 2021

I was blown away!

I was blown away by the Rev. Robert Ballinger 2CD Set you kindly sent me. Considering what you had to work with the packaging is top notch. I am a black gospel music fan and this is the real deal. Thank you. Yours, Dave

From: Luther Brantley On:12 Feb 2021

A true servant of God! Amen!

I wish I could have seen him live i one of his services but unfortunately I am too young! We all need a whole lot more Jesus in our hearts and a lot less of selfishness and narcism!

From: J.E. Swanson On:29 Jan 2021