Five decades after he released a series of highly regarded but mostly overlooked funk and soul gems, Pastor T.L. Barrett, who Kanye famously sampled for 'Life of Pablo,' tells us about getting a career-spanning box set.
… little by little, music fans have come to discover the talent that Chicagoans have long cherished as their own.
Walking to his sister’s house two-and-a-half miles south of Wendell Phillips following that meeting, Barrett had what he considered an epiphany, and made an agreement with God. “You know how valuable ships are to the economy, to the industrial complex… That’s how I saw myself.” The albums weren’t big sellers — they were primarily purchased by his Chicago-area parishioners — but Barrett’s congregation grew, thanks largely to his inspirational services, his politically tinged sermons and his connection to Chicagoans like the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
“I used that experience [and] all those experiences to give a message of hope and determination and intestinal fortitude to tap into young people who would be struggling along the road of trying to make it like I was at,” Barrett says. “Because that’s how I viewed myself. You know how valuable ships are to the economy, to the industrial complex? They keep cargo that’s very valuable for the commerce and industry of the whole world. And that’s how I saw myself.
And then, like a ship without a sail, momentum stopped. Light in the Attic sold a few thousand copies of theirreissue, and the record went back out-of-print. And then, like a ship without a sail, the music began to drift out. Fans of the Numero and Light in the Attic labels spread “Like a Ship” through taste-making playlists and word-of-mouth praise. “There was a point in time when the reissue was a $200 record because you just couldn’t find it,” Numero’s Shipley said.
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