Country Preacher

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Country Preacher
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Live album by
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet
ReleasedDecember 1969
or January 1970 [1]
RecordedOctober 1969
VenueChicago
Genre Jazz
Length38:39
Label Capitol
Producer David Axelrod
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet chronology
Accent on Africa
(1968)		Country Preacher
(1969)		 The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra
(1970)
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Country Preacher is a live album recorded by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1969.

Contents

Overview

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]

The album reached No. 136 on the Billboard Top LPs during a twenty two-week run on the chart in 1970. [6]

Track listing

Introduction by the Reverend Jesse Jackson

  1. "Walk Tall" (Zawinul, Marrow, Rein) 5:03
  2. "Country Preacher" (Zawinul) 4:30
  3. "Hummin'" (Nat Adderley) 6:32
  4. "Oh Babe" (Nat Adderley, Julian Adderley) 4:50
  5. "Afro-Spanish Omlet"
    a. Umbakwen (Nat Adderley) 4:30
    b. Soli Tomba (W. Booker) 3:03
    c. Oiga (Joe Zawinul) 4:23
    d. Marabi (Julian Adderley) 3:47
  6. "The Scene" (Zawinul, Nat Adderley) 2:01

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1970)Peak
position
US Billboard Top LPs [6] 136

References

  1. ↑ "Billboard". March 14, 1970.
  2. ↑ Allmusic review
  3. 1 2 3 4 Sheridan, Chris Dis here: a bio-discography of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000 ISBN   978-0-313-30240-4
  4. 1 2 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
  5. ↑ Hamilton, Andrew. Review at allmusic
  6. 1 2 Whitburn, Joel (1996). Top LPs, 1955–1996. Record Research. p. 8. Retrieved July 10, 2025.


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