Steven Hale
Nov 2, 2022

I've posted this song somewhere on Medium--apologies if it's a duplicate for you. Wayne Raney's "Gathering in the Sky" is simultaneously yearning and celebratory. Some day I'll post my own analysis (you may notice that I'm the YouTube uploader--no one else had done so). The Porter Wagoner and Jeanne Shepard's versions omit the dark introduction, which in my view is essential. https://youtu.be/9psB808VYkg

(For young folks, here's a discussion of camp meetings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_meeting )

Steven Hale
Steven Hale

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Music: Discovering the lost and forgotten. Politics: Exposing injustice. Screenwriting: Emotional storytelling.

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