Artist.......: Liz McComb
Album........: En Concert au Casino de Paris
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Gospel
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2014-10-04
Str.date.....: 2014-03-27
Quality......: 239kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.lizmccomb.com/
track title time
1. En Concert au Casino de Paris 89:49
* Soon I will be Done
* Travelling Shoes
* Jericho
* For Your Love
* Lord, You Made Me What I Am
* I Need You
* Soul Say Yes
* God Don't Lie
* My Mother's Love
* God Cares for Me
* Give it up
* The Bressing
* Basin Street Blues
* No Colour Line
* Down by the Riverside
* Labour in the Vineyard
* Rivers of Babylon
* Oh When the Saints
Runtime 89:49
Size 153.99
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Gospel music has always been a part of Liz McComb's life. Her mother was the
pastor of an Ohio Pentecostal church, and before she was even old enough to
attend school, she was singing for her mom's small but enthusiastic
congregation. Her first public solo performance there was "Do You Know Him." As
she grew up, she made music her special form of communication, since she was
more comfortable with that due to a case of shyness. During her youth, she took
up the violin, but was entranced by the piano after watching an older sister
take lessons. Before she became a teenager, she had a desire to form a junior
choir, and approached her pastor about the possibility. Once she got the
go-ahead, she also began writing songs for the choir's performances that brought
rave reactions from the congregation. In addition to her mother and her sister,
McComb was also influenced by her brother, who was a lover of jazz. He
recommended that she listen to his record collection, which included titles by
such greats as Nat King Cole, Wes Montgomery, and Max Roach.
While McComb was a young woman performing in the Karamu House in Cleveland, a
cousin based in Europe wanted a tape of McComb singing, in order to pass it
along to an agent that she knew in Switzerland. McComb thought she was giving
the agent what he wanted when she sent him a studio demo, but it failed to spark
a positive reaction. Instead, he requested a tape of her more enthusiastic
gospel songs, the type she sang while growing up. That did the trick, and McComb
headed to Europe accompanied by the Karamu House's director, who had previously
worked as a blues singer. She went on to record an album, which received an
enthusiastic response in Germany and Switzerland. Among her European adventures
was an appearance at the 1981 International Festival of Montreux, where she
shared the stage alongside Bessie Griffin, Koko Taylor, the Mighty Clouds of
Joy, Taj Mahal, and Luther Johnson, Jr. McComb went on to more triumphant
festival performances, which led her to work as the opener for such heavyweights
as James Brown and Ray Charles. By then she was making her home in Paris, where
she performed at the Champs-Elysees Theater and the Casino, as well as the Opera
of Lyon. The Olympia, also in Paris, was the site of McComb's free shows for the
City of Light's homeless, and some of those performances appear on the recording
Olympia: 1998 Live. EMI also released a film of the concert titled Live at the
Olympia. Another recording, Time Is Now, was honored with the Mahalia Jackson
Prize.
McComb went home to the U.S. in 2001 for a New Year's Day show in Houston's
Astrodome, which was followed by a performance at New York's Lincoln Center less
than a week later. She followed up with the release of her U.S. debut recording,
Fire, which was released by Crystal Rose/EMI. The album landed on Billboard's
gospel Top 40, barely missing the Top 20.