Dwight Armstrong hymns as you have never heard them before.
The entire album can be found for free on Spotify. If you click on Lyric Vision, you can find other albums he has done. You can also access his music on YouTube, though you will be hit with a commercial before each song: My Rock and Fortress
Youtube: Click here for the full album.
This material is actually not half-bad! As a compulsive "noodler" on my Les Paul and Strat, I recognize the years of experience and creativity required to produce professional results, the likes of which we hear in these selections. Good tone, good timing and sustain. Tasty licks! It's not a ham-fisted "garage rock" effort. The guitar work is clearly on the level of the Nashville studio musicians who play on most of the major country hits.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to learn some more about the individuals involved in this project. There were a number of WCG bands during the 1970s. My ex brother in law was the drummer in several of them, and the Brazil brothers worked in their day time jobs printing all the booklets and magazines with us at AC Press. One of the young guys who had a summer job at the press became the lead singer in Sammy and the Bandits, a WCG country band. These bands played weddings, played at shows during the Feast, and even at things like July 4 celebrations that were not just restricted to the captive WCG audience. All these musicians were under-used by the church. They should have been doing "Special Music" They had so much to contribute. I hope they've all had good lives!
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Ok, I admit, I have an old wwcog hymnal, purple one, on my bookshelf. Not in pride of place, but on the bottom shelf under a stack of other books collecting dust. Haven’t opened it for years. And I admit I enjoyed singing the old ‘hymns’, and they were sung with gusto in our congregation. There are some great songs out there, that are beautiful and moving, sung within the Christian and Jewish communities. Thanks to the internet a whole new world of religious music has opened to us. Do I miss the old songs, well yes and no. But I really enjoy the music, songs sung at my local synagogue. Jim, there is a whole new world out there to explore lol.
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