2663995, Yolanda killed it. Posted by Joe Corn Mo, Sat Feb-18-12 10:54 PM
>her version overwhelmed me b/c before this i'd only heard >slow, mournful, dirge-like takes on the song rendered by the >congregation at my family's Baptist church in rural Alabama. >i barely knew the lyrics b/c they always draaaaag out all the >words until they're nearly moaning and chanting. it's nice in >it's own way. but i didn't know what a triumph lay in this >song until i heard this version. > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcjP4LgW0Rw > >and then Yolanda Adams bowled me over singing it last night in >tribute to Whitney. it was too much. lol > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WbZIjG_3sE > >i'm not a Christian anymore, but i still love Gospel. i tend >to favor the 'traditional' stuff like this. the songs i heard >in churches and on road trips w/my family when i was a kid. >it's what i miss most about church. i still want to find a >Black church w/a large, tight choir and band that i can >attend. and leave right before the sermons.
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