Need your help with songs.......

[Blurry]

about God.

Mud and I are moving into an old church and I want to get a good mix CD ready to start it off right. I figure I can fool the higher ups with the music and they won't catch on the other going-ons in there. Off the top of my head I can think of...

1) old time religion

2) swing low sweet chariot

3) Just a closer walk with thee

4) I saw the Light

5)

Thanks.

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" comes to mind; there must be a dozen Cockburn tunes I could think of, too.

[Blurry]

Cool, thanks DEM! I'll check that one out. Made me think of the song Hallelujah, I'm Ready (i'll add that one to the list too - thanks)

Bring those Cockburn songs on!!

[Dr. J]

Johnny Cash has a number. Help Me and I Came to Believe appear on his last album (A Hundred Highways).

[djmelbatoast]

I just made a couple mixed cds for my pa on this very topic. Enjoy:

and we bid you goodnight

Greatest Love - Donna The Buffalo

I Know His Voice - Del McCoury

Cold Jordan - Dead

Ezekial Saw The Wheel - Woody

Two Hands - Townes Van Zandt

My Brothers and Sisters - Jerry Garcia

God's Got It - Old Crow Medicine Show

Drifting Too Far From The Shore - Garcia Grisman & Rice

Amazing Grace

In My Time Of Dying

Blood Of The Lamb - Billy Bragg and Wilco

The Maker - Dave Matthews Band

Christmas Song - Dave Matthews Band

Blessed To Be A Witness - Ben Harper

Power Of The Gospel - Ben Harper

A Picture Of Jesus - Ben Harper

When He Returns - Bob Dylan

When God Made Me - Neil Young

[phunkyb]

Jesus on the Mainline line (YMSB version)

Working on a Building (Del McCoury version)

[nibbler]

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

Bring those Cockburn songs on!!

Hmmm... God-themed songs in particular, leaving out all the ones that are more elliptical, or which are more likely just abstract love songs, or instrumentals with religiously-inflected titles...

All the Diamonds

Arrows of Light

Creation Dream

Cry of Tiny Babe

Dweller by a Dark Stream

Great Big Love

Hand Dancing

He Came from the Mountain

Hills of Morning

Lament for the Last Days

Lord of the Starfields

My Lady and My Lord

Strange Waters

Mystery

What about the Bond

I'm probably missing a couple, though.

[phorbesie]

lifeboy

[mark tonin]

Mud and I are moving into an old church and I want to get a good mix CD ready to start it off right.

Wow, where is the old chuch Babsy?!?

Good luck ... some Blind Boys could sound nice in a church ...

Peace, Mark

[Esau.]

I know you guys will like this stuff, I'm pretty sure anyway. This show was in a church and the band used no amplified instruments or vocals. The taper did a great job getting it. I think it'll fit in your mix. Heres a couple tracks from my googlepage.

Stairwell sisters

Jump Back (Hambone)

Oh Death

Heres a link for the entire show. (text included.)

http://www.sendspace.com/file/1ssoyi

[Schwa.]

Doc Watson - On Praying Ground

1. You Must Come In At The Door

2. Precious Lord

3. On Praying Ground

4. I'll Live On

5. Gathering Buds

6. Beautiful Golden Somewhere

7. I'm Gonna Lay My Burdens Down - (bonus track)

8. We'll Work 'Til Jesus Comes

9. Ninety And Nine, The

10. Farther Along

11. Christmas Lullaby

12. Did Christ O'er Sinners Weep

13. Uncloudy Day

[NewRider]

anything by Ministry.

[dancingbear]

one love, bob marley

Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right

[Velvet]

Church by Lyle Lovett, from the album Joshua Judges Ruth.

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

Church by Lyle Lovett.

Yes!

[Hartamophone]

"I'll Fly Away" is a beautiful traditional spiritual tune. One of the livelier versions I've heard was done by The Word (The North Mississippi All Stars, John Medeski and Robert Randolph), and is entirely instrumental.

[Calamity Jane]

Mud and I are moving into an old church ...

awesome!

I always thought this would be so cool (or an old school house)

where? give the details (and date and time of the housewarming )

[edger]

Wade in the Water...

I Shall Be Released...

Almost anything off of the O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack...

Congrats on the new home!!

[Schwa.]

No Depression - Uncle Tupelo

"...my home's in Heaven, I'm goin' there."

very, very good tune babs

[timouse]

perfect...

out of curiousity, is your new place in a town called ayton?

[bokonon]

Mud and I are moving into an old church ...

awesome!

I always thought this would be so cool (or an old school house)

where? give the details (and date and time of the housewarming )

My grandma used to live in the schoolhouse in Waterford (or is it Wilsonville? Where the fuck is the boundary?) near Izzy's right on the highway. It's really run down now, but in the eighties when she lived there it was really cool. She had a sewing business in one of the classrooms where my brother, sister and I would play all the time. There were horses next door too, it was really cool. Lots of light too, I remember laying under the houseplants and pretending I was in the tropics. I was such a cute kid.

[Blurry]

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I downloaded what I could from LimeWire on Saturday at my parent's house and then went home and went through my CDs to make up the rest of the my mix.

Phunky B - I would love to get the YMSB version of Jesus on the Main Line. The only version I could come across was by the Mississippi Mass Choir - oh well - it's still pretty good (i'll keep looking)

djmelbatoast - funny! If there were such things as coincidences this would be a great one.

Schwa - thanks I'll try for No Depression next time I'm home.

Nibbler - Alice's restaurant - good call - I'd like to get that movie.

Alabama Man - thanks for the link. Backbacon was nice enough to download the show for me. What I've heard so far is great (Mud loves it)

Mark/Timouse/Calamity - the church is in Kemble (about 15 minutes north of 0wen Sound). We're really happy - open concept with a couple of lofts - I want to eventually put a slide in that goes from the loft to the main floor.

Here's the 2 mixes I put together for those curious ones - if anybody really wants a copy just PM me.

1st mix - this mix is to let the higher ups know I mean business.

1 - How Great Thou Art (stater bros)

2 - Turn Your Radio On (John Hartford)

3 - Cold Jordan (GD)

4 - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Johnny Cash)

5 - Church on Time (Ben Harper & Blind Boys)

6 - Just A Closer Walk with Thee (Sarah Harmer)

7 - Waiting for a Miracle (JGB)

8 - Old Time Religion (Oak Ridge Boys)

9 - Rise Up Lazarus (Heaven's Gate)

10 - I'll Fly Away (Ralph Stanley)

11 - This Train is Bound for Glory (Johnny Cash)

12 - Prayer Bells of Heaven (Doc Watson)

13 - My Sisters & Brothers (JGB)

14 - Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Eric Clapton)

15 - Hallelujah, I'm Ready (Highway 61 Revisited)

16 - Go Tell It on the Mountain (Blind Boys)

17 - Little White Church (Jim & Jesse McReynolds w/ Mac Wiseman)

18 - I Saw the Light (Ralph Stanley)

19 - I Shall Be Released (the Last Waltz)

20 - Wade in the Water (The Staple Singers)

21 - On the Authority (Heaven's Gate)

22 - Amazing Grace (Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, Dolly Parton)

23 - And We Bid You Goodnight (GD)

2nd mix - this one's to let them know that I like to have some fun too. Pray hard and play hard if you will (although I don't think I've ever prayed)........

1 - Gotta Serve Somebody (Dylan)

2 - Jesus Was A Capricorn (Kris Kristofferson)

3 - Hell in a Bucket (GD)

4 - Cold Jordan (emmylou harris and Tony Rice)

5 - Cathedral (CSN)

6 - Precious Angel (Dylan)

7 - Friend of the Devil (GD)

8 - Jesus, the Missing Years (John Prine)

9 - Train Bound for Gloryland (YMSB)

10 - Gomorrah (JGB)

11 - He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (Statler Bros)

12 - Devil On My Shoulder (Steve Murphy)

13 - Fish & Whistle (John Prine)

14 - Slow Train (Dylan)

15 - Come On & Ride (The Cathedrals)

16 - Lifeboy (Phish)

17 - Jesus on the Main Line (Mississippi Mass Choir)

Edited April 10, 2007 by Guest