- A1: One More Hill
- A2: The Devil Gets Me Down And The Lord Picks Me Up
- A3: Is That The Only Time You Call Out His Name
- A4: Open Season On The Devil
- A5: Behold And Believe
- A6: My Soul Is Free
- A7: Beauty Beyond The Rainbow
- A8: Will My Lord Be Proud
- B1: Little Black Book
- B2: Think It Over
- B3: Nobody’s Fool
- B4: Back In Your Heart
- B5: How You Gonna Love Me?
- B6: Mr. B’s
- B7: Reaching For Heaven/Reaching For You
- B8: I’ll Cry Tomorrow
When Ella Hanshaw (1934-2020) first picked up the guitar as a 12-year-old girl in Procious, West Virginia, she dreamed of being a country star. But over the next 74 years, as she wrote hundreds of songs, her artistic goals slowly ascended to a higher realm. Ella Hanshaw's Black Book, lovingly compiled by her granddaughter from home and church recordings, features a selection of Ella's original gospel songs (Side A: Big Black Book), performed solo and with her Hallelujah Hill Quartet, and her broken-hearted country songs (Side B: Little Black Book) recorded in a back bedroom during quiet moments at home. Despite differences in style and intent, common themes remain the same across the sacred and secular sides of the record: love and longing for what we cannot quite touch—not yet, anyway—and the physical pages of possibility that we can hold in the meantime.
erscheint voraussichtlich am 06.06.2025
