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Writer, speaker, follower of Christ, widow, Episcopal deacon, believer in education, facts over gossip, the Florida Gators, Kentucky bourbon, and a rare NY strip steak.
A friend posted something this morning that included, at the end of a much longer video, a cover of this song, which sent me in search of the original. I’ve always loved the lyrics, but I was disappointed that the recording is overproduced and burdened by musical clichés. I hoped I might find a more “raw and real” cover – or at least one by Cece Winans, or, better yet, Sam Cooke, – but came up empty.
That caused me to muse about the turning of raw art into something altogether different by laying on violin tracks, or transitioning up a key for the final verse, or closing a song by singing the last line three times with ever-more-dramatic pauses in between each one. What do those things often do? They strip the original of its emotional immediacy, and turn it into “show.” That also explains why I hoped to find a gospel version: hearing it sung by an African-American singer might have given it back th