rise up

andrew warts-peter and john


...heavy heavy gospel funk.

give praise to the lord!

some rough and raw funky soul from dallas gospel group, the relatives, led by rev. gean west. this is a tv broadcast from christmas day 1974. the relatives album "dont let me fall" was released in october on heavy light records. it pulls together the groups three obscure 45’s and five unreleased tracks from a lost a session with legendary North Texas engineer Phil York from the early 1970's. "dont let me fall" is the relatives first full length release.