Various - Ain’t No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely album flac

Ain’t No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely by Various Artists, released 26 October 2010 1. There Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down 2. Jesus is Mine (Mine, Mine, Mine) 3. Daniel Ely - Testifying 4. Zion’s Hill (Here They Come, Oh What a Thrill) 5. Shout and Shine 6. He Is Coming Soon 7. Amazing Grace 8. When the Battle’s Over (We Shall Wear a Crown) 9. Brother Claude Ely - Lingering Could Be Your Doom 10. There Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down. Brother Claude Ely - Lingering Could Be Your Doom 39:37. 10. There Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down 02:53. featured on Bandcamp Weekly Feb 14, 2017.

Brother Claude Ely. Primary Artist.

There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down. Brother Claude Ely. feat: Reverend David Brock, Sister Sharon Brock, James Burkhart. 2. Jesus Is Mine (Mine, Mine, Mine). 3. Daniel Ely Testifying. feat: Daniel Ely. 4. Zion's Hill (Here They Come, Oh What a Thrill). feat: Reverend Jim Ewing Sr. 5. Shout and Shine. feat: Patricia Ewing, Reverend Jim Ewing Jr. 6. He Is Coming Soon. feat: Reverend Windell D. Ely. 7. Amazing Grace.

Ain't No Grave (also known as Gonna Hold This Body Down) is a traditional American gospel song attributed to Claude Ely (1922-1978) of Virginia. Claude Ely describes composing the song while sick with tuberculosis in 1934 when he was twelve years old. His family prayed for his health, and in response he spontaneously performed this song

Macel Ely, the great-nephew of Brother Claude Ely, spent years conducting oral-history interviews with more than 1,000 people in the Appalachian Mountains. The result is a 360-page hardback biography with 290 sepia photographs.

What Ely was known for was his brilliance as a preacher and his songwriting gifts. Through the enormous popularity of songs like "There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down," Brother Claude Ely bequeathed a musical and spiritual influence that continues to resonate throughout the Appalachians and in gospel music today.

Brother" Claude Ely (July 22, 1922 – May 7, 1978) was an American religious singer-songwriter and a Pentecostal Holiness preacher. Brother Claude Daniel Ely, coined as the King Recording Label’s Gospel Ranger of the Appalachian Mountains, was born in Pucketts Creek, Virginia  . Ely pastored various churches in Kentucky, Virginia and the Cincinnati, Ohio area. Ely also hosted a radio program entitled "The Gospel Ranger Show" which aired across the southeastern portion of the United States Eddie Dean, writer for The Washington Post stated