The Prince of Kosher Gospel

From: Alex Goldmark
Length: 04:14

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Default-piece-image-2 Joshua Nelson, a proud African-American-Jew, explains how he fuses the soul music he loved as a boy with the sometimes dreary liturgical songs of his Jewish faith. He sure can spice up a service, just have a listen to the music he makes.

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Joshua Nelson, a proud African-American-Jew, explains how he fuses the soul music he loved as a boy with the sometimes dreary liturgical songs of his Jewish faith. He sure can spice up a service, just have a listen to the music he makes.

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David Srebnik

Posted on March 02, 2010 at 04:55 PM | Permalink

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Posted on June 21, 2007 at 11:21 AM | Permalink

Review of The Prince of Kosher Gospel

This piece is just the musician's voice mixed with his music. Really fascinating . . . touches on issues of race and religion but from a very personal and thoughtful perspective. Nelson is much deeper and more intriguing than what I expected from the intro, which made me think it was just going to be a "hyphen" story . . . as in -- "african-american and jewish . . . how weird." Maybe the intro can be tweaked to indicate there's a lot more . . .

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Music outro bed starts at 3:50. So if desired host can talk over music to end the piece.

HOST INTRO: It may not seem like a perfect fit - soulful gospel music and Jewish liturgy, thats right, I said Jewish. But Joshua Nelson, a proud African-American-Jew, makes beautiful music combining the soul music he loved as a boy with the sometimes dreary liturgical songs of his life-long religion, Judaism. His unique experience can teach us all something. And ... let me tell you, he sure can spice up a service. Just have a listen to his music and this piece, produced by Alex Goldmark.

HOST BACK ANNOUNCE: You heard music from Joshua Nelson's CD Mi Chamocha (me ha-MOH-ka). You can buy it and other music at joshuanelson dot com. That story was produced by Alex Goldmark.