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Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments - "In My Father's House"

Chicago legend, the Rev. Issac Whittmon leads the Greater Metropolitan COGIC choir on a rafter-raising gospel stomper.

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You'll rarely hear a better-rehearsed, more passionate choir than this one.  And Rev. Issac roars over it all, exhorting them to a slam-bang finish at the 4:32 mark that probably lifted the roof off the recording studio!

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"In My Father's House" from Live with the Greater Metropolitan Church of God in Christ, featuring Rev. Issac Whittmon

Robert F. Darden is the author of two dozen books, most recently: Nothing But Love in God’s Water, Volume II: Black Sacred Music from Sit-In to Resurrection City (Penn State University Press, 2016); Nothing But Love in God’s Water, Volume I: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement(Penn State University Press, 2014); Jesus Laughed: The Redemptive Power of Humor(Abingdon Press, 2008), Reluctant Prophets and Clueless Disciples: Understanding the Bible by Telling Its Stories(Abingdon Press, 2006); and People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music(Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2004).