For anyone who has seen the documentary Amazing Grace, it’s hard to imagine a film to rival the one about the making of Aretha Franklin’s gospel album. But the new film Stay Prayed Up contains equally ecstatic moments of a gospel singer in performance, in this case a not widely known but deeply gifted woman referred to as Mother Perry.
For almost 50 years Mother Perry – Lena Mae Perry – has been singing hymns of praise as part of The Branchettes, a gospel group based in rural North Carolina. She is the last surviving member of the original trio, and directors D.L. Anderson and Matt Durning built the film around the recording of her first live gospel album.
The live recording was captured in April 2019, with Perry on lead vocals, “glittering keys from Wilbur Tharpe, soaring harmony and a thundering tambourine from Angela Kent, all backed by The Guitar Heels,...
For almost 50 years Mother Perry – Lena Mae Perry – has been singing hymns of praise as part of The Branchettes, a gospel group based in rural North Carolina. She is the last surviving member of the original trio, and directors D.L. Anderson and Matt Durning built the film around the recording of her first live gospel album.
The live recording was captured in April 2019, with Perry on lead vocals, “glittering keys from Wilbur Tharpe, soaring harmony and a thundering tambourine from Angela Kent, all backed by The Guitar Heels,...
- 6/20/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
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