My last post, I Will No Longer Do The Devil’s Dishes, used Sweet Spirit‘s collaboration with Britt Daniel (Spoon) to go down a late ’70s/mid-’90s wormhole. My original intention was to end that post with this video, but it didn’t fit tonally. To be fair, there’s a very specific tone into which director John […]
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“Leaning On The Everlasting Arms” is a hymn written in the late 19th century, not markedly different in structure or tone from a thousand other hymns and spirituals of the era. Composed by Anthony Showalter and Elisha Hoffman, “Leaning” was inspired by Deuteronomy 33:27, “The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the […]
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