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Macel Ely II, Brother Claude Ely

Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely (Book + CD)

Label: Dust-To-Digital

Format: Book + CD

Genre: Sound Art

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** 2024 Stock **360-page hardback biography with CD, includes 290 sepia photographs
CD features rare and electrifying audio recordings of Pentecostal worship services in the mountains of Kentucky and Virginia accompanied by a fiery sermon preached by Brother Claude Ely.
Penned by Macel Ely II, Ain’t No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely is written as an oral, biographical history taken from the recorded interviews of more than 1,000 people in the Appalachian Mountains who knew Brother Claude Ely. Authored by Brother Claude Ely’s nephew, Macel Ely II, the biography is supplemented by 290 sepia photographs along with a CD featuring rare and electrifying audio recordings of Pentecostal worship services in the mountains of Kentucky and Virginia accompanied by a fiery sermon preached by Brother Claude Ely himself.

"It’s sanctified singing like (Brother Claude) Ely’s that we hear echoes of in Elvis and Little Richard, in James Brown and especially in Jerry Lee Lewis. But not a one of them ever burned on record, not even Jerry Lee Lewis, the way that Ely burns on (his) recordings. The main difference is this: Most musicians were merely called by fame, by the Opry. Brother Claude Ely had been called by God.” — Dana Jennings, New York Times Editor

Details
Cat. number: 978-0-9817342-2-4
Year: 2013
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Hardcover, 18 x 24 cm, 360 pp.