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| Rev Edward W Clayborn 1926 - 1928 £8.69 |
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| The record was the culmination of efforts by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company of Chicago (whose prior success was in the business of manufacturing billiards and bowling equipment) to launch their Vocalion Race numerical. Vocalion was competing with the already established Okeh, Columbia, and Paramount Race Catalogues which had achieved sales success with a variety of vaudville singers, vocal quartets, jazz ensembles, downhome blues performers, and singing preachers with their congregations.
"Your Enemy Cannot Harm You" and "The Gospel Train is Coming" helped put Vocalion on the map as a serious contender in the Race market and guaranteed Clayborn future recording dates. By the end of January 1927 he was back in the studio to record five titles which remain unissued; by April that same year he was in Chicago and produced six more titles, including remakes of "There'll Be Glory" and the lyrically outstanding "Let That Lie Low". It may be expected that listeners seek clues to Clayborn's personality in his lyrics, as there is little else to base a profile upon. Paul Oliver supplies the tenuous thread that Clayborn shared a session in Chicago with Hound Head Henry and Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport - information consistent with the notion that Clayborn was from the Alabama vicinity, where Davenport had strong ties. Clayborn has been categorised by some as a metaphorical one-trick pony, and this is not entirely unjustified. However, Clayborn's records were never intended to be listened to en masse, and the simple beauty and unadorned faith of tricks like "In Time Of Trouble Jesus Will Never Say Goodbye" conceal a depth of religious conviction. Thanks to Ken Romanowski |
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