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By: Ramsey

Ramsey — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:27:07 +0000

This may be the best recording I’ve heard of Go Tell it on the Mountain, but you forgot to give credit to Tom Waits for his solo work. As I listen to it, it’s really more like the Blind Boys singing backup to our Tom. Tom Waits, of course, has been writing and singing in one way or another about the American seeker who never quite feels completely at home in this world for more than three decades. I’m no expert on music, but I wonder if Carl has any thoughts on the Tom Waits songbook.
It certainly reflects a different sort of soulfulness than that of the other Thom so many of my friends enjoy listening to, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke. Perhaps there’s something to be said, following the lines of what Peter has already begun to trace out in his Christmas posts, about American soulfulness vis-a-vis that of the British Mr. Yorke and his like. Namely, the American blues and spirituals give words to a sorrow and hope or movement of the soul which is best expressed by Yorke and maybe Coldplay’s Chris in wordless howling and moaning over a techno-industrial soundscape. While there is a certain beauty in the wordless but pure falsetto tones of the Brits, I can’t help but prefer the gruff and gritty lyricism of Waits’ music.

By: Don’t Just Tell It on the Mountain | cathlick.com

Don’t Just Tell It on the Mountain | cathlick.com — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:04:39 +0000

[...] So our friends the Brothers Judd added to their excerpt of my post below the YouTube link to the Blind Boys of Alabama singing “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” Source: Postmodern Conservative [...]

By: paul seaton

paul seaton — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:26:49 +0000

Sounds like a wonderful event. Thanks for sharing (including the rendition of the song). Merry Christmas to you and yours (and all the PomoCon gang)!!