With the Pentecostal Mass Choir of Chicago, Charles Watkins was a gospel music innovator, bringing new textures, rhythms and instrumentations to gospel music.
In the early '60s, the Rev. Charles Watkins' "Shady Green Pastures" was way ahead of its time.
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"Shady Green Pastures" from the Rev. Charles Watkins and the Pentecostal Mass Choir of Chicago's Shady Green Pastures LP, Side 1, Track 1