Black Gospel With Good Sound

Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens on Daptone Records

some of my favorites and well recorded also:

Chanticleer - where the sun will never go down & How sweet the sound.
Original cast recording - The Gospel at Colonus
Fred McDowell - Amazing Grace with Como,MS choir
Amazing Grace - Robery Shaw festival Singers on TELARC
FairField Four - standing in the safety zone
The Gaithers - Atlanta Homecoming & Kennedy Center Homecoming & Freedom Band

For more urban taste:
Soundtrack - say amen somebody
Aretha Franklin - one Lord one faith one baptism
& Amazing Grace

Try the NASHBORO label for the old black southern group stuff. Sound quality will vary.

Beware of these MASS CHOIRS, They are to Gospel, what smooth Jazz, is to real Jazz.

Sacred Strings.

http://www.youtube.com/user/sacredstrings?blend=23&ob=5#p/u/0/jprtd1d-pJo

This church incorporates the steel guitar into their worship service, and they've morphed into some of the greatest steel guitar players anywhere.

They have a CD titled Sacred Steel-Live (www.arhoolie.com) that is just great. I play it in the car on the way to church on Sunday. Check out "Don't Let the Devil Drive".

More steel guitar:

Aubrey Ghent & friends 'Can't nobody do me like Jesus'

Great steel guitar work on the title track.