Mahalia Jackson - Bless This House (Limited Edition)

No one personifies the gospel genre better than Mahalia Jackson (1911/1972), even though the New Orleans singer also dabbled in jazz.She had been recording since 1931, and when the time came to move from two-track 78s to LPs, she signed a contract with Columbia, where she was the first gospel artist recruited, with a debut album dedicated to this religious repertoire, while leading the Civil Rights battle with Martin Luther King.