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For Recording Academy voting members

For Your Consideration

Music Lesson H1 has been entered in the 2027 GRAMMY® Awards process. This page collects the record, its credits and its context for members of the Recording Academy.

Entered for consideration in

Best Roots Gospel Album

Music Lesson H1 — thankugoodsir

April 24, 2026 · 22 songs · Hardcover LLC

Gospel & Contemporary Christian Music

Artist
thankugoodsir
Label
Hardcover LLC
Running time
22 tracks

The record — track listing & credits

All songs written by Harold Lilly Jr. unless noted

No.Title
01pardon me
02the name of this feeling is
03PERMISSION TO FIGHT
04my father's name
05HOPE FOR A GAIN
06the bible was in my sippy cup
07INCLINING TO BLACKNESS
08approaching the peak
09THE CLOT
10hey... I love to read
11ALL AWARE ONE
12the transatlantic slave trade
13THE ORIGINATOR
14the surroundings and grounds of the Confederacy
15THERE IS A LESSON IN THIS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE EYES
16harold you can read
17THIS IS NOT HARD
18beginning of the country
19THY DUTY IS ONLY TO DELIVER THE MESSAGE
20“...very VERY special...”
21BOUNTIES OF YOUR LORD
22TAHA

Full liner notes and session credits available on request

Context

Music Lesson H1 is one of three Musical Essays. Each exists as an album and film, and each is built to be programmed as well as played. Literacy is the through-line.

Funeral of a Nation is taught in the songwriting curriculum at Berklee College of Music.

— Keli Nicole Price, Associate Professor of Songwriting

For voting members

Recording Academy members can find this entry on the ballot under Best Roots Gospel Album.

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