TAKE ME TO THE WATER DUST-TO-DIGITAL ISBN: 9780981734217 Macel Ely II, excerpted from the preface to Ain't No Grave. With each interview, I discovered I was learning not only more about the life and ministry of my great-uncle, but also the precious history of his followers and those who loved him most." What a privilege it was to record hundreds of these testimonials digitally.
In the process, I located literally thousands of people who gave firsthand accounts of being in church services, tent revivals, camp meetings, or at radio stations where he had preached and sung in the Appalachian Mountains. Temporarily out of stock pending additional inventory.įROM THE BOOK"As I ventured on a quest to discover the true story of my great-uncle Claude Ely, I was taken to many coal camps, hollows, and Pentecostal-Holiness churches throughout Appalachia. Featured image is reproduced from Ain’t No Grave. An accompanying CD collects two recordings of “There Ain't No Grave” alongside other songs and sermons.
Authored by Ely's great-nephew Macel Ely, Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely is an oral biography composed from recorded interviews with more than 1,000 people in the Appalachian Mountains who knew Brother Claude Ely. Through the enormous popularity of songs like “There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down,” Brother Claude Ely bequeathed a musical and spiritual influence that continues to resonate throughout the Appalachians and in gospel music today. What Ely was known for was his brilliance as a preacher and his songwriting gifts. Few people, however, knew the details of his childhood, military service and years of hard toil in the coal fields of southwestern Virginia. Once described as the King Recording Label's “Gospel Ranger,” Brother Claude Ely (1922-1978) was known and loved throughout the Appalachian mountains as both a religious singer-songwriter and a Pentecostal-Holiness preacher.
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