Brother Claude Ely

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There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down 00:00 Tools
There's a Leak in This Old Building 00:00 Tools
I'm Crying Holy Unto the Lord 00:00 Tools
I Want To Rest 00:00 Tools
Talk About Jesus 00:00 Tools
Farther On 00:00 Tools
You'Ve Got To Move 00:00 Tools
Thank You Jesus 00:00 Tools
Little David, Play On Your Harp 00:00 Tools
Send Down The Rain 00:00 Tools
There's A Higher Power 00:00 Tools
Holy Holy (That'S All Right) 00:00 Tools
Fare You Well 04:17 Tools
Jesus Is The Rock 00:00 Tools
You Took The Wrong Road Again 00:00 Tools
My Crucified One 00:00 Tools
Those Prayers And Words Still Guide Me 00:00 Tools
Stop That Train 00:00 Tools
There Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down 00:00 Tools
Do You Want To Shout 00:00 Tools
The Old Fireside 00:00 Tools
I Want To Go To Heaven 00:00 Tools
Dip Your Finger In The Water And Cool My Thumb 00:00 Tools
I'm Just A Stranger Here-The Cumberland Five 00:00 Tools
I'm Just A Stranger Here 00:00 Tools
There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down (1953) 00:00 Tools
There Ain't No Grave 00:00 Tools
Holy, Holy, Holy (That's All Right) 00:00 Tools
Send Down That Rain 00:00 Tools
Dip Your Finger In The Water (And Cool My Thumb) 00:00 Tools
Jesus is Mine (Mine, Mine, Mine) 00:00 Tools
I'm Going To That City 00:00 Tools
Sweet Jesus 00:00 Tools
So You Want To Shout 02:15 Tools
Lost And Doomed 02:15 Tools
Lingering Could Be Your Doom 00:00 Tools
Don't Trifle With The Lord 00:00 Tools
Don't You Want To Go 00:00 Tools
There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hol 00:00 Tools
Daniel Ely Testifying 00:00 Tools
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"Brother" Claude Ely (Lee County, Virginia, July 22, 1922 – Newport, Kentucky, May 7, 1978) was a religious singer-songwriter and a Pentecostal Holiness preacher. Brother Claude Daniel Ely, coined as the King Recording Label’s “Gospel Ranger” of the Appalachian Mountains, was born in Pucketts Creek, Lee County, Virginia. He was the first Pentecostal Holiness recording artist to be signed to a major recording label for strictly sacred music and songs. Receiving notoriety for his penned song, "There Ain’t No Grave (Gonna Hold My Body Down)", Ely’s musical style and spiritual influence still exist today among both secular and sacred music enthusiasts. Although Bozie Sturdivant was the first to record Brother Claude Ely's tune in 1941 with the help of the US Library of Congress' field recordings, Ely had penned the song in 1934. King Records of Cincinnati helped Brother Claude Ely copyright the song in 1953. Many Hollywood entertainers and musical artists have acknowledged their admiration and fascination for Brother Claude Ely. Often music historians attest that other musical artists cite Brother Claude Ely as having been a positive influence on their works as well. Elvis' mother Gladys brought Elvis Presley to Ely's tent revivals. Artists recording Brother Claude Ely's songs include Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash. Robert Duvall's self-produced movie entitled The Apostle also integrated Brother Claude Ely's music on its soundtrack. Ely pastored various churches in Kentucky, Virginia and the Cincinnati, Ohio area. Ely also hosted a radio program entitled "The Gospel Ranger Show" which aired across the southeastern portion of the United States. Many of Ely's religious followers and numerous admirers still exist today in the Appalachian mountains. Ely's great nephew, Dr. Macel Ely II, wrote an official biography on Brother Claude Ely's life. The book is based upon oral history ascertained from over 1,000 personal interviews Dr. Ely conducted with musical artists, ministers, and Appalachian residents who remembered the singer/preacher. The book is a "set" consisting of the earlier mentioned book and a music CD. The set is entitled Ain't No Grave: The Life & Legacy of Brother Claude Ely was released in 2010 by Dust-to-Digital out of Atlanta, Georgia. American VI: Ain't No Grave is a posthumous album by Johnny Cash. It was released on February 26, 2010, which would have been Cash's 78th birthday. Using Brother Claude Ely's song "Ain't No Grave" as the title track, the LA Times Reports that the song would have been Johnny Cash's last recorded song before his death. Eddie Dean, writer for The Washington Post stated: ...and Holiness preachers such as Brother Claude Ely rave on like renegade rockabilly cats ... You have Brother Claude Ely doing radio broadcasts that sound like a tent revival ... I think his material is as strong as anything Sun Studio did. Even the wildest rockabilly rarely reached the unhinged delirium of "There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down," ... A Holiness preacher from Kentucky, Ely was a faith healer and a terrific guitarist, judging from the ferocious rockabilly rhythms on "Grave," a country hit in 1953. Ely and many others ... foreshadow the rock-and-soul explosion, when church-reared performers such as Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin fused sanctified and secular style to revoltionize pop music. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.