1. Going to Chicago

    Posted in: Videos on Sunday, June 12th, 2011

    Blues: Going to Chicago

    I think this is a first, Andrae Crouch playing the blues.  Recently when Andrae and the original Disciples got together for an informal reunion, I was there with cameras to capture this reuniting of one of the most influential groups in contemporary gosel music.   Two of the band members from the heyday of the disciples were also there, Bill Maxwell on drums and Hadley Hockensmith on guitar.  I first heard Bill & Hadley when we were all still teenagers.  I was in college in Oklahoma City, and considered going to hear the guys in “The Third Avenue Blues Band,” an essential component of my course work.

    As a favor to me, they agreed to do a couple of impromptu blues numbers after we finished recording the Disciples songs. Great bass player and friend Abraham Laboriel was there to add his magic to the mix.  Bili Thetford did the singing and Andrae, as best as we can remember, played keyboards on a blues jam for the first time ever.  Without a rehearsal here are the guys doing their version of, “Going to Chicago”

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