For Your Consideration
Harold Lilly Jr. is a GRAMMY® Award- and BMI Award-winning songwriter from Richmond, Virginia. He has written songs for Alicia Keys, Luther Vandross, Beyoncé, Angie Stone, Jamie Foxx, Killer Mike, Brandy, Monica, and Kanye West, including Alicia Keys’ “You Don’t Know My Name.” He records as thankugoodsir and is the founder of Hardcover, the independent label releasing Music Lesson H1.
Entered for consideration in
Best Roots Gospel Album Best Global Performance - The Originator
- Artist
- thankugoodsir
- Label
- Hardcover
- Running time
- 22 tracks · 37:49
- Words by
- Harold Lilly Jr.
- Producer
- Gavin Williams
- Mixing
- Neal Pogue
- Mastering
- Mike Bozzi
Context
Music Lesson H1
Music Lesson H1 is one of three Musical Essays, each an album, a film and a book made to be played, screened and taught. It sets words from the Qur’an to gospel spirituals, carrying the tradition born in the songs of the enslaved into a new conversation of faith and praise.
The record draws on the oldest roots of gospel—the spirituals born out of the transatlantic slave trade—and sets the language of the Bible beside the language of its reading partner, the Qur’an, as one testimony of faith and praise.
“Music Lesson H:1 is a profoundly significant cultural sign of spiritual unity in faith and praise of the God of revealed scripture.”
Track Listing
Words by Harold Lilly Jr. · Music by Gavin Williams
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | pardon me | 0:42 |
| 02 | the name of this feeling is | 2:29 |
| 03 | PERMISSION TO FIGHT | 1:52 |
| 04 | my father's name | 0:57 |
| 05 | HOPE FOR A GAIN | 1:49 |
| 06 | the bible was in my sippy cup | 2:01 |
| 07 | INCLINING TO BLACKNESS | 2:03 |
| 08 | approaching the peak | 2:12 |
| 09 | THE CLOT | 1:17 |
| 10 | hey... I love to read | 2:00 |
| 11 | ALL AWARE ONE | 1:31 |
| 12 | the transatlantic slave trade | 3:23 |
| 13 | THE ORIGINATOR | 1:31 |
| 14 | the surroundings and grounds of the Confederacy | 1:32 |
| 15 | THERE IS A LESSON IN THIS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE EYES | 1:17 |
| 16 | harold you can read | 1:36 |
| 17 | THIS IS NOT HARD | 1:58 |
| 18 | beginning of the country | 1:09 |
| 19 | THY DUTY IS ONLY TO DELIVER THE MESSAGE | 2:03 |
| 20 | “...very, VERY special...” | 0:55 |
| 21 | BOUNTIES OF YOUR LORD | 1:48 |
| 22 | TAHA | 1:44 |
For Voting Members
Voting runs Oct. 12–22. Recording Academy members can find this entry on the ballot under Best Roots Gospel Album Best Global Performance - The Originator.
Inquiries
Brittany Christian · brittany@hardcoverent.com