The tune is from Kimbrough's new album, Americanitis. He says, of the song:
A good friend tried to warn me about being too preachy on the CD. I responded by putting a full blown sermon, complete with slide guitar solo, on there.He calls it a sermon; but if the thoughts are preachy, the musical style is not. The song unfolds in a laconic American folk-song version of sprechstimme, with Kimbrough quietly skewering us for some of our sins:
There's no power in pride.He has a point.
Pride is a man who goes to war to save face.
And pride is a man who cannot tell the truth
if it might make him look weak.
There's no power in pride.
Our sin is pride and we know it.
We just can't bear to talk about it.
We paste those [pride] stickers right next to the fish
we bought down at the Christian Store.
I'm not bashing Jesus,
But how 'bout we read what Jesus said for once.
I say for balance we take in a little Buddha,
And Johnny Cash.
1 comment:
How very cynical.
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