The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93458 Message #2218303
Posted By: Greg B
18-Dec-07 - 02:37 PM
Thread Name: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2007
Subject: RE: Mystic Seaport Sea Music Festival 2007
At one of the 2006 pub sings someone, and I still don't know where the female voice was coming from, started 'Down to the River To Pray' in the manner that it made its appearance in the film "O Brother Where Art Thou?'
The result was amazing, and sounded for all the world as it did in the flick--- just as haunting as the harmonies fell in place and built in layers.
To complete the authenticity, someone in his cups must have been quite moved, as he managed to 'baptize' himself in the pond across from the Visitor Reception Center when the session broke up. Speculation, however, is that he was moved more by 'spirits' than by 'The Spirit.' That, and gravity.