Thursday, May 26, 2022

REVOLVER. Super-creative production in the studio

Esp. first and last cuts.

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Monday, May 23, 2022

Also jazzy now that i think of it

Ellen's vocals are frequently jazz-like, or even straight jazz, as in her rendition of Blue. And she definitely brings a wonderful jazz-like voice to nearly all her gospel leads.

Julz is not in the jazz camp, but her vocal and musical creativity make her quite the diva.

Oh! Wait a minute! Her May Baby vocals are effectively straight jazz.

Neither does Matt use much jazz-style in his work, but he sure can flat-pick that guitar and has a great, smooth singing voice.

Because my hearing is a bit problematic, I often wish his guitar had better amplification. But that's my problem, not his.

Sunday, May 22, 2022

Drift Away (Gospel Version)

Compiled from internet sources
After recording her gospel album Bridges in 2015, Lynn contracted pneumonia a month later and died in a Nashville hospital.

Bridges featured a collection of 12 country gospel tracks. One song, Drift Away Gospel, was penned by Anderson's domestic partner Mentor Williams. The song was a gospel reworking of the original track first recorded in the 1970s.

"He rewrote it for our little church in Taos, New Mexico. We’d been singing it in church for a couple of years. The congregation loves it, and I hope our audience loves it," Anderson reflected.

Bridges marks Anderson’s very first Gospel project, something her fans have been asking about for a while. “I’ve been asked before when I was going to do one, and it just never happened. I got baptized at church — dunked in the Rio Grande River — so this just came about naturally.”

One cut, Wanderer’s Prayer, has lyrics that struck home, she said. “I’ve been so blessed in my life that things have kind of seemed to fall in place for me. I just have to keep on the right path, and not jaunt off to the left or the right. I love how the lyrics speak of asking the Lord to keep me in the right direction. That’s where the song hits me.” [See video below.]

Anderson during her lifetime divorced twice, losing custody of all her children over her intemperate outbursts. She then maintained a "committed relationship" with Williams until her death. Problems with alcohol came to public attention later in life and she was treated at the Betty Ford center.

Despite her difficulties, it's quite obvious that her Bridges songs are voiced with sincerity, implying that she went to the right place at death. The fact that she was dunked in the Rio Grande implies a probable adult decision to turn her life over to Jesus.

We don't know when she received adult baptism, but we know that, as a horse breeder, she spent quite a few years in Taos, NM, with her roommate, Williams, while overseeing her horse ranch in Texas.

Friday, May 6, 2022

Tuesday, May 3, 2022


Not on FB, so I happened on this in the public sector just now.
WHOO-HOO!
ELLEN!
Just about everybody winces on hitting that milestone. I know I did. But God's time is what counts, not clock time.

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Better days ahead

Isaiah.2
[4] And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Joel.3
[10] Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.
Micah.4
[3] And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
King James (Authorized) Version

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