Country Preacher

{{Infobox album|

| name = Country Preacher

| type = Live album

| artist = The Cannonball Adderley Quintet

| cover = Country Preacher cover.jpg

| alt =

| released = December 1969
or January 1970{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NSgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=cannonball+adderley+country+preacher&pg=PA68|title=Billboard|date=March 14, 1970}}

| recorded = October 1969

| venue = Chicago

| studio =

| genre = Jazz

| length = {{Duration|m=38|s=39}}

| label = Capitol

| producer = David Axelrod

| prev_title = Accent on Africa

| prev_year = 1968

| next_title = The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra

| next_year = 1970

}}

{{Album ratings

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r151342|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic review]

}}

Country Preacher is a live album recorded by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet in 1969.

Recorded at an unidentified church meeting of the Chicago chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Operation Breadbasket, the album spent two months in the Cash Box R&B charts in 1970.

Described by discographer and Adderley biographer Chris Sheridan as "an audible sociological record",[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2F1e-A_GpkC&q=country+preacher Sheridan, Chris Dis here: a bio-discography of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley] Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000 {{ISBN|978-0-313-30240-4}} the introduction is by the Reverend Jesse Jackson.[{{Allmusic|class=album|id=r151342|pure_url=yes}} Hamilton, Andrew. Review at allmusic] The liner notes, written by Adderley, give some background to Operation Breadbasket and the Country Preacher.

The album is the first with bassist Booker as a member of the Quintet.

Adderley, in his introduction to the title track, mentions fellow saxophonist Ben Branch, the director of the Operation Breadbasket Orchestra and Choir.[https://books.google.com/books?id=wUKZjeBYRsAC&q=Chris+Sheridan&pg=PA170 Thomas, Lorenzo & Lynn Nielsen, Aldon Don't deny my name: words and music and the black intellectual tradition] University of Michigan Press, 2008 {{ISBN|0-472-06892-X}}, 9780472068920