| Country Preacher | ||||
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| Live album by The Cannonball Adderley Quintet | ||||
| Released | December 1969 or January 1970[1] | |||
| Recorded | October 1969 | |||
| Venue | Chicago | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 38:39 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | David Axelrod | |||
| The Cannonball Adderley Quintet chronology | ||||
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| Allmusic |   [2] |
Country Preacher is a live album recorded by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1969.
Recorded at an unidentified church meeting of the Chicago chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket,[3] the album spent two months in the Cash Box R&B charts in 1970.[4]
Described by discographer and Adderley biographer Chris Sheridan as "an audible sociological record",[3] the introduction is by the Reverend Jesse Jackson.[5] The liner notes, written by Adderley, give some background to Operation Breadbasket and the Country Preacher.
The album is the first with bassist Booker as a member of the Quintet.[3]
Adderley, in his introduction to the title track, mentions fellow saxophonist Ben Branch, the director of the Operation Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir.[4]
- ^ "Billboard". March 14, 1970.
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ a b c Sheridan, Chris Dis here: a bio-discography of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000 ISBN 978-0-313-30240-4
- ^ a b Thomas, Lorenzo & Lynn Nielsen, Aldon Don't deny my name: words and music and the black intellectual tradition University of Michigan Press, 2008 ISBN 0-472-06892-X, 9780472068920
- ^ Hamilton, Andrew. Review at allmusic