Sheldon Taylor's Souls of Black Notes

                                                              Picture Pendergrass at dawn, surveying Philly like a modern-day Musa/Moses on a solitary mountaintop. Rolling piano keys and soulful organ chords signal a call to prayer as he nudges society awake from its mental slumber. Recognizing the world is slipping away into Sodom-like sea of war, hatred and poverty, Teddy stresses that there is no time for looking back. The old ways are extinct, and the future is within our grasp…. The aptly named Teddy Pendergrass documentary If You Don’t Know Me arrives just in time to celebrate the late soul singer’s criminally under-recognized legacy. The film is part of a loose trilogy, coming on the heels of a 1997 Behind the Music episode and a more recent Unsung segment that aired in 2010.   If You Don’t Know Me promises to re...

The kingdom of God is here on Earth today!!! The righteous government that we all prayed for so long. "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth...." Open your heart so your body can feel it. Open up your eyes so your mind can see it. The paradise lost to the paradise regained. We have so much work to do. lets unite and help ourselves grow into the God-like condition we need so much. What good is wisdom without understanding?  Wake Up Everybody!!!!             Liner notes taken from the Wake Up Everybody album ---Kenneth Gamble, 1975   The generation gap is another evil plan. The result of which divided the family structure therefore creating a halt to the flow of wisdom from the wise to the young and stifling the energy of youth which is the equalizer to wisdom and age. Being of truth and understanding of all things, we must recapture the family structure---Mother, Father, Sister and Brother and give ...