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The greatest bass to come out of the National Baptist Convention and the protegé of gospel composer Lucie Campbell, Sir J. Robert Bradley was a vocalist whose powers of song interpretation and style were too grand and refined to be confined to gospel alone. Possessed of an instrument of Wagnerian proportions, Bradley brilliantly melded classical training and gospel soul. Here he records a profound interpretation of the spiritual "Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow" from 1950.
The greatest bass to come out of the National Baptist Convention and the protegé of gospel composer Lucie Campbell, Sir J. Robert Bradley was a vocalist whose powers of song interpretation and style were too grand and refined to be confined to gospel alone. Possessed of an instrument of Wagnerian proportions, Bradley brilliantly melded classical training and gospel soul. Here he records a profound interpretation of the spiritual "Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow" from 1950.
