Country Preacher is a live album recorded by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1969. Overview Recorded at an unidentified church meeting of the Chicago chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket, the album spent two months in the Cash Box R&B charts in 1970.
Described by discographer and Adderley biographer Chris Sheridan as "an audible sociological record",Sheridan, Chris Dis here: a bio-discography of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000 the introduction is by the Reverend Jesse Jackson.[ Hamilton, Andrew. Review at allmusic] 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.
Adderley, in his introduction to the title track, mentions fellow saxophonist Ben Branch, the director of the Operation Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir.Thomas, Lorenzo & Lynn Nielsen, Aldon Don't deny my name: words and music and the black intellectual tradition University of Michigan Press, 2008 , 9780472068920
The album reached No. 136 on the Billboard Top LPs during a twenty two-week run on the chart in 1970.
Track listing
Introduction by the Reverend Jesse Jackson "Walk Tall" (Zawinul, Marrow, Rein) 5:03 "Country Preacher" (Zawinul) 4:30 "Hummin'" (Nat Adderley) 6:32 "Oh Babe" (Nat Adderley, Julian Adderley) 4:50 "Afro-Spanish Omlet"a. Umbakwen (Nat Adderley) 4:30b. Soli Tomba (W. Booker) 3:03c. Oiga (Joe Zawinul) 4:23d. Marabi (Julian Adderley) 3:47 "The Scene" (Zawinul, Nat Adderley) 2:01
Personnel Julian "Cannonball" Adderley - alto and soprano saxophones Nat Adderley - cornet and vocals on "Oh Babe" Joe Zawinul - keyboards Walter Booker - bass Roy McCurdy - drums Charts
Chart (1970) Peakposition US Billboard Top LPs136 References