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

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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
01	pardon me
02	the name of this feeling is
03	PERMISSION TO FIGHT
04	my father's name
05	HOPE FOR A GAIN
06	the bible was in my sippy cup
07	INCLINING TO BLACKNESS
08	approaching the peak
09	THE CLOT
10	hey... I love to read
11	ALL AWARE ONE
12	the transatlantic slave trade
13	THE ORIGINATOR
14	the surroundings and grounds of the Confederacy
15	THERE IS A LESSON IN THIS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE EYES
16	harold you can read
17	THIS IS NOT HARD
18	beginning of the country
19	THY DUTY IS ONLY TO DELIVER THE MESSAGE
20	“...very VERY special...”
21	BOUNTIES OF YOUR LORD
22	TAHA

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.

The Musical Essays Request a screening

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.