Wow. Well spake folks. Got nuthin' to add (that's a switch) 'cept that I agree with Paw and marty that the modern "pop country" Gospel stuff strikes me as pretty lame. Ahh shit, now that I've started I WILL add something. Occasionally I accidentally click onto that hokey "Gaither Gospel Song" thing on the tube. Yeah, they're sellin' the videos, and half the singers on the stage are dead by now, but I listen....and I love it! Even all the staring at the ceiling, tears, and awful jokes.

The greatest moment of my life was Reverend Gary Davis singing "Death Don't Have No Mercy" at a Mariposa Festival 35 years ago...and then following it with "I will do My Last Singin' In this Land". Man may have put the faces and personalities to whatever God may be, but he also wrote those wonderful songs!

See...don't get me started....

Rick