Louise McCord - A Tribute To Mahalia Jackson (1972/2020) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

In a time when the gospel world was reckoning with the 1972 passing of gospel titan Mahalia Jackson, Detroit singer Louise McCord leaned into her legacy. Accompanied by the Rance Allen Brothers in engineer Richard Becker’s Pac-Three Studios, McCord, in actuality, broke away from the conventions of Jackson’s more traditional gospel. She opts instead to charge forth toward a deeper, funkier path, most glaring on the album’s single “Better Get a Move On,” written by Stax staff writer Bettye Crutcher.