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Religious music for less than devout

We have a thread " Jazz for someone who doesn’t like jazz. " In a similar vein perhaps "Religious music for the less than devout".

"people get ready" - Rod Stewart
"Amazing Grace" - Jessye Norman
2009 "Duets" - Five Blind Boys of Alabama, The - entire CD
1988 "Sweet Fellowship" - Acappella, the entire CD

In 1989 I was working in NJ, I may have been the only guy on the job who did not know he was working for the Irish Mafia. I would lend people the CD "Sweet Fellowship" and they were willing to pay for it but never return it:

"Here is $20 kid, go buy yourself another cuz youz can’t have mine back. Now don’t ever ask me again."


timothywright
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Amg, you wanna see someone that knows how to make money, try Lady Gaga.  Or Britney Spears in her heyday.  Or Michael Jackson in his.  Geez, how many kazillion albums did ABBA or ELO or the Beatles sell?  
Bdp, I was going to mention Buddy and Julie Miller.  Dirty Water is the best recorded track I have.  I also have most of Julie Miller’s solo career.  They marketed her as the Cindy Lauper sound alike.  I always felt that the “sounds like” description marketing of Christian artists was goofy.  
Anyone, look up dirty water on YouTube, it’s got a really excellent guitar solo.
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audioman58
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For more a heavy metal Christian sound Creed was a  Rocking band.
n80
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@lsteel1, I did not know that Kingfish Ingram's mother had died. I saw him perform in an old bank building in Clarksdale, Mississippi a few years ago. He was brilliant and mesmerizing. And his mother was right there sitting behind him just off the stage area. It was my understanding that she was always close by. Such a loss is hard on anyone but I got the impression that he really depended on her.

@slaw Atheists Aint Got No Songs is hilarious.

Here is the answer to that song. Also hilarious:


https://youtu.be/26nJjNDsbmkhttp://


vars
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The Carter family
jpwarren58
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Angel Band  Stanley Brothers
Life is a Railroad  Johnny Cash

As long as sincere and not canned and spammed.
Just below comfort and hope and hard work and good deeds, religion has inspired some our most profound artistic expressions. 
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