In this once-in-a-lifetime event, the drummer, the producer, and the drummer’s father convene in Durham to cut a live album driven by Pastor Blade. They’re joined by bus-fulls of churchgoers from Shreveport and the sharpest sidemen in the business.
On Saturday night there’s a live recording; on Sunday morning a sermon by Pastor Blade; and on Sunday evening, another live performance. All of it unfolds at Hayti, once an A.M.E church and now a deconsecrated chapel whose Jim Crow-era walls create acoustics better than any studio’s.
Organized by Duke to happen in Durham, this landmark event in music unearths the rapture at the core of modern art, two days of hands-in-the-air music that, on wax, will never die.