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 The Legendary Ingramettes (from the album Take a Look in the Book available on Virginia Folklife Records)
Soul Sisters Singing for Salvation is the marquee claim for The Legendary Ingramettes announcing their recent release, Take a Look in the Book. While humility is a goal, if saving souls is your business, the good word needs a bigger sound system. Enter The Legendary Ingramettes, following a bass line to glory in the title track as Take a Look in the Book remembers the rhythms of uptown Saturday night for “When Jesus Comes”, lets the spirit of memory slow stride across Bill Withers’ “Grandma’s Hands”, and settles in for a rambling Folk sway with the front porch singalong in “Rock of Ages”. For many years, ‘Mama’ Maggie Ingram led The Legendary Ingramettes, the group founder guiding a band formed to take her family through hard times. Maggie is gone with daughter Almeta Ingram-Miller picking up the gospel baton as Take a Look at the Book continues the musical traditions of the male-dominated gospel groups of the 1940’s and 1950’s where helping spirits to rise up included raising the roof. While the soundtrack of Take a Look at the Book chooses a secular punch for its songs of the spirit, The Legendary Ingramettes keep Gospel flames burning in the piano-driven steps of “I’ve Endured”, let the power of voices come to the front for “Time is Winding Up”, join together in “The Family Prayer” on a rockingly righteous rhythm, and let a Jazz light shine from above in “Hold on to God’s Unchanging Hands”. The spoken word opening of “Beulah Land/I Wanna Go There” is a delivered with an infectious joy for the memories that lead into the processional march harmony taking steps towards a heavenly hereafter as The Legendary Ingramettes embrace a home their hearts have never seen. A tsunami of salvation takes The Legendary Ingramettes out of Take a Look in the Book as they give in and give it up exiting the album with “Until I Die”. Listen and buy the music of The Legendary Ingramettes from AMAZON Visit The Legendary Ingramettes webpage for more information
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