Numero Group Parties With God
Compilation released on CD and deluxe pearly gatefold double vinyl

Church music can be a terrific bore, but when artists inject a little bit of secular spirit into religious forms, things start to get interesting. The god-fearing people of the Numero Group, the label responsible for the crate-digging that produced the Eccentric Soul series, know this and have thus assembled a compilation inspired by the Funky Boss himself.

Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal will be released August 29. The album's compilers have spent the last year looking through the repertoires of the few hundred gospel groups who had a funky number or two, and the end result is 18 tracks full of what a press release calls "primitive choirs, spacious breaks, congas, elderly rappers impersonating the devil, cast recordings, thumping bass, and JB impressionists, all with a heavy slathering of gospel gravy."

Modern bands could learn a lesson in band naming from some of the positively righteous ones on this tracklist. Yes, the Mighty Walker Brothers' "God Been Good to Me" and LaVice & Company's "Thoughs Were the Days" have been properly listed.

Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal:

01 Preacher & the Saints - "Jesus Rhapsody Pt. 1"
02 5 Spiritual Tones - "Bad Situation"
03 Mighty Walker Brothers - "God Been Good to Me"
04 Masonic Wonders - "I Call Him"
05 Mighty Voices of Wonder - "I Thank the Lord"
06 Voices of Conquest - "O Yes My Lord"
07 Gospel Comforters - "Jesus Will Help Me"
08 Horace Family - "God Will Dry My Weeping Eyes"
09 Trevor Dandy - "Is There Any Love"
10 Sam Taylor - "Heaven on Their Minds"
11 Triumphs - "We Don't Love Enough"
12 Brother John Witherspoon - "That's Enough"
13 Shackleford Singers - "God Is All Over Me"
14 Cliff Gober - "A Poor Wayfaring Stranger"
15 Universal Jubileers - "Childhood Days"
16 Modulations - "This Old World Is Going Down"
17 Apostles of Music - "Look What He Brought Us From"
18 LaVice & Company - "Thoughs Were the Days"