The Louisville Story Project is a nonprofit organization that partners with underrepresented communities to tell their stories.

Its latest project, I'm Glad about it, brings Louisville's rich heritage of gospel music to the forefront through the digital restoration of dozens of records and a 200 page companion book.

The city's unsung heroes of gospel are getting the spotlight they deserve.

Learn more about the legacy of Louisville's gospel scene in this week's Tapestry.

Oh, no, it's not going to be brewing because we were classified back in the seventies as a funky gospel.

So it's not going to be geographic and it's not going to be drag.

And drop around me, around me and the crap.

I'm glad about it is a massive project and documenting the legacy of gospel music in Louisville, but focusing between years 1958 and 1981, it sort of centered around the record and body of work that people released immediately on vinyl records of that era.

We partnered with a bunch of folks in the local gospel community, both from the world of choirs and the worlds quartets and everything else who really know the history and will build the legacy.

And so they used developed chapters in which they kind of give context of the sort of social function of gospel music and all that it meant for our community.

And so this project, it resulted in a box set with the 200 page book by gospel elders plus 83 restored recordings from that vinyl era.

It's also a big digital archive that's gotten I heard songs and growing that will keep adding to over time.

I come doors in Brother Joe coming back three, three years ago and explain to me what they were doing.

And I thought it was fantastic.

Fantastic.

So I jumped on board.

It's more true, more of your living than it is in today's music.

What's what's remarkable is it was really a golden age of gospel music.

I mean, at that time in the community, you could go to amazing gospel programs with incredible talent.

You know, on Sunday afternoons, Sunday night, and at a late night Sunday till 1:01 a.m. And that was every week.

And there was so much going on and really big crowds would turn out for these things.

And it was a really vibrant community.

And then, of course, you know, the overlaps of a lot of the real, real heyday of civil rights movement of that era.

And it's a real story of just despite all the things society's stacked against them, doing just amazing things and demonstrating for one another and for anyone else paying attention that the strength, the brilliant, the talent, the resourcefulness, the this music was, was helping people through hard times in really, really meaningful ways.

Oh, we I was brought up in the church and I know that this this this type of classic gospel music would give you a piece.

It give you a hope.

After I hear the music, they don't do it like this music.

I've been here a long time and and this really it has some of the greatest talent there is in it.

But we have not had the exposure like I feel that we should have had.

When you when you look around at what is available, publicly available and formally archives of Louisville's history, it's alarming how little of that history that's that's black history is actually formerly archived, preserved publicly accessible.

It's a essential history.

We got to know.

We got to celebrate it.

We got to know we got to understand our community and a much fuller way that we possibly can with what's currently available in archives.

When you listen to these songs, I guarantee you you're going to be absolutely blown away by the variety of music, by the excellence of.

This music going to hit you where you live.

It's going to be good for your soul.

I mean, it's made me come country to soul.

The I'm Glad about It release concert is this Saturday.

The event will feature performances from some of the city's premiere choirs, as well as archival gospel performances.