Sam Cooke With The Soul Stirrers – Sam Cooke With The Soul Stirrers

Sam Cooke With The Soul Stirrers

Sam Cooke With The Soul StirrersSam Cooke With The Soul Stirrers Speciality SPCD-7009-2 (1991)


A good set, though still an imperfect one.  Many reissues of Soul Stirrers material with Sam Cooke have overdubs that were not present on the original releases.  Fortunately, the versions here are the originals.  On the other hand, this set includes Sam Cooke’s first 5 solo recordings (some originally released under an alias “Dale Cook”), and those are for the most part a distraction.  Sam Cooke’s softer, lighter lead vocals took gospel music in a whole new direction.