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Thread #35179   Message #478570
Posted By: wysiwyg
07-Jun-01 - 02:46 PM
Thread Name: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
Subject: RE: Your Favorite Gospel Blues?
dwditty, now yer makin' me drool. And I have an Amazon gift certificate pending online but I don't think it will credit Max. Who is the author or editor, in case there is more than one in that title?

DJH, where you at? I want to learn your songs. Me, I add verses. Haven't made up any yet.. have to listen to more first, then they will pour out I think.

Hardiman does a PALMS OF VICTORY blues-style instead of southern gospel. Well I did the arrangement, but he sings it while I bang on the autoharp in seventh chords. Well he doesn't sing it, he growls it very energetically. I found three versions and edited and wrote verses till it told a whole story. Congregation loves it. I must have posted it already....?

Today, Blind Willie Johnson is "up." We had also bought a book of spirituals at Hogeye, and dang if one of Willie's isn't related to one in there, with more verses. I'll post it in a bit, here. I'm hoping for more overlaps like that, as we work through the songbook. (The song titles do not always transfer, so I can't just look them up.)

Yesterday and the day before it was Rev. Davis, and I did some operatin' on one, and posted the verses in a thread titled "I Will Do My Last Singing in This Land."

Any tapes I get will go in the Gospel Tape Library... do you-all know about that project BTW?

~S~