The Greatest Gospel Singer? Georgia Peach; Sister Clara

Georgia Peach/Sister Clara Hudman

Clara Hudman Gholston, also known as 'Clara Belle Gholston', 'Clara Gholston Brock', 'Sister Clara Hudmon'

Clara Hudman sings Now is the Needy Time

and another of her gospel songs

and another 

One of her most moving recordings is of the gospel song "Where the sun won't never go down" (Georgia Peach and The Harmonaires, on Apollo).

Compare her version of "Needy Time" with Lightnin' Hopkins' "Now is the needed time", and with an Eric Bibb version. Which do you prefer?



See also, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Rock Me (1938)

Strange Things Happening Every Day (1944)

Sister Rosetta, Guitar Solos