Moving on Skiffle – Van Morrison
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The prolific 77-year-old Morrison returns with his second double album in three years, with a solo album in between, his 43rd studio album overall. Moving on Skiffle includes skiffle-influenced covers of 23 blues, country, folk, gospel, and jazz songs. Skiffle combined folk, blues, country, bluegrass and jazz played with a mixture of homemade or improvised instruments (washboards, jugs, washtub bass, etc.). Morrison has previously explored the sounds of his youth in the mid-1950’s Belfast on his 2000 album The Skiffle Sessions: Live in Belfast with Lonnie Donegan and Chris Barber, a favorite of mine.
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Morrison, who produced the album, seems to be having a great time with these mostly upbeat songs. There is great passion and energy in the music. In addition to his own guitar, sax and harmonica, Morrison is backed by an excellent band featuring Dave Keary on guitar, Pete Hurley on bass, Colin Griffin on drums, Sticky Wicket on washboard, and Seth Lakeman on fiddle. Background vocals are contributed by Crawford Bell, Dana Masters and Jolene O’Hara.
There are many highlights on the excellent album, which features several references to trains, including Hank Snow’s “I’m Moving On”. A favorite is Morrison’s version of Woody Guthrie’s “Worried Man Blues”. The gospel standard “This Little Light of Mine” an anthem of the Civil Rights movement in 1960’s, is transformed into the upbeat “This Loving Light of Mine”. “Freight Train”, another highlight, is a song which was originally written by Elizabeth Cotten and then recorded by both Peggy Seeger and Chas McDevitt. “Streamline Train” was written in the 1930s by the Mississippi bluesman Red Nelson, the song was a hit by The Vipers Skiffle Group in 1957. The album closes with the nine-minute “Green Rocky Road”, written by Len Chandler and Robert Kaufman, recorded by Dave Von Ronk and featured in the film Inside Llewyn Davis.
· God of Every Grace (Acoustic Version). Enjoy this acoustic version of “God of Every Grace” performed by Keith & Kristyn Getty, Matt Boswell and Bryan Fowler.
I Set My Hope on Jesus (Hymn for a Deconstructing Friend) by Keith & Kristyn Getty, Matt Boswell and Matt Papa
This week’s song of the week is “I Set My Hope (Hymn for a Deconstructing Friend)” by Keith & Kristyn Getty, Matt Boswell and Matt Papa. The song was written by Keith Getty, Matt Boswell and Matt Papa. Here is the lyric video for the song.
When this life of trials tests my faith
I set my hope on Jesus
When the questions come and doubts remain
I set my hope on Jesus
For the deepest wounds that time won’t heal
There’s a joy that runs still deeper
There’s a truth that’s more than all I feel
I set my hope on Jesus
I set my hope on Jesus
My rock, my only trust
Who set His heart upon me first
I set my hope on Jesus
Though I falter in this war with sin
I set my hope on Jesus
When I fail the fight and sink within
I set my hope on Jesus
Though the shame would drown me in its sea
And I dread the waves of justice
I will cast my life on Calvary
I set my hope on Jesus
I set my hope on Jesus
My rock, my only trust
Who set His heart upon me first
I set my hope on Jesus
Though the world call me to leave my Lord
I set my hope on Jesus
Though it offer all its vain rewards
I set my hope on Jesus
Though this heart of mine is prone to stray
Give me grace enough to finish
’Till I worship on that final day
I set my hope on Jesus
I set my hope on Jesus
My rock, my only trust
Who set His heart upon me first
I set my hope on Jesus
I set my hope on Jesus
My rock, my only trust
Who set His heart upon me first
I set my hope on Jesus
I set my hope on Jesus
