The Whole Nine Yards Episode 280     

With Roy Stannard

On Mid Sussex Radio 103.8FM

Sunday 7 June 2026  3-5pm

www.midsussexradio.co.uk/listen

Street Gospel

This Sunday we’re taking it to the streets: where faith meets funk, where belief rides a backbeat, and where the sacred sneaks into the everyday. Street Gospel is all about the places where spirit shows up unannounced: in a brass riff, a whispered confession, a hip‑hop benediction, a choir echoing off brick walls. These are songs that praise, protest, heal, and line up to have a great time.  It’s music with dust on its shoes and light in its chest. From revival‑tent shouts to candle‑lit prayers, this is belief in motion.

Hour One

The Allergies – God Walked Down (As We Our Thing 2016)

Etta James – God’s Song (That’s Why I Love Mankind) (from Matriarch of the Blues, 2000)

Moses Sumney & Kara Jackson – Sins of the Father (single, 2020)

Kirk Whalum & Jonathan Butler – Falling in Love With Jesus (from The Gospel According to Jazz Chapter III, 2010)

Archie Shepp & Romulus Franceschini – Ballad for a Child (from Blasé, 1969)

Nina Simone – The Desperate Ones (from Nina Simone and Piano!, 1969)

Roberta Flack – Tryin’ Times (from First Take, 1969)

Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Spirits Up Above (from Volunteered Slavery, 1969)

Jimmy Scott – Exodus (from Falling in Love Is Wonderful, 1962)

Sunbeam Sound Machine – In Your Arms (from Wonderer, 2014)

Jools Holland & Ruby Turner – Get Away Jordan (from Jools Holland & Friends, 2007)

Sister Rosetta Tharpe – This Train (from various recordings, originally 1939)

Hour Two

Dee Dee Bridgewater – (Take My Hand) Precious Lord (from Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver, 1995)

Edwin Hawkins – Oh Happy Day (from Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord, 1968)

Arrival – See the Lord (from Arrival, 1970)

Little Simz – Broken (from NO THANK YOU, 2022)

The Art Reynolds Singers – Jesus Is Just Alright (from Tellin’ It Like It Is, 1966)

Akua Naru – Walking the Block (feat. Drea d’Nur) (from The Miner’s Canary, 2015)

Kate Simmonds – We’ve Come to Praise You (from Heart & Soul, 2002)

Mark Edwards – The Trumpet Child (feat. Priscilla Jones Campbell) (from In Deep 2007)

Missy Higgins – All For Believing (The Sound of White 2004)

Lizz Wright – Grace (from Grace, 2017)

Carleen Anderson – Leopards in the Temple (from Blessed Burden, 1998)