The preceding Laura Love post made me think of one this song, "Blind Bartemus", a gospel tune she covers in her disc "Octoroon". Here's the audio at rhapsody.com - worth a listen.But I couldn't find a video for the Love cover. While searching, though, I came across this, a wonderful recording by the Harps of Melody, a Memphis gospel group that sang across the south during the Fifties and Sixties. A dipper of fresh, clear water from the dark and mighty river that flows out of the wellsprings of Africa. Lovely.
I am a huge gospel fan, too! Got hooked on the early a.m. FAMU Gospel Hour whilst driving to class. There's no spirit felt like that present at a real gospel sing (and I'm afraid the white ones just don't qualify.)
I am moved because they are lovely, sweet and purely naive.
And who cannot cry when the pipes are playing "Amazing Grace"?
I am a huge gospel fan, too! Got hooked on the early a.m. FAMU Gospel Hour whilst driving to class. There's no spirit felt like that present at a real gospel sing (and I'm afraid the white ones just don't qualify.)
ReplyDeleteI am moved because they are lovely, sweet and purely naive.
And who cannot cry when the pipes are playing "Amazing Grace"?