I have been a Sam Cooke and Soul Stirrers fan for many years, I thought I had nearly every track that they had recorded. This CD fills in the blank spaces, the booklet that comes with this CD is very informative. The CD covers the albums "Jesus be a fence around me" an " Encore with the Soul Stirrers" plus SAR singles not on LPs and 4 previously unreleased tracks. You can tell Sam Cooke had some influence in these recordings,the pauses between some phrases and the fluidity of the phrasing reminds me of him, which cannot be a bad thing.