Episode from Jul 2, 2015

Silver Quintette - "Sinner's Crossroads" [William Walker, pictured to the right, is the man who put the tune of New Britain to the words of Amazing Grace in 1835.] Barack Obama - "Amazing Grace" Anonymous Bluegrass Garage Group - "Amazing Grace" Harmonizing Four - "Amazing Grace" [Pic to right, is the first published text of Amazing Grace.] Original Sacred Harp Choir - "New Britain" - This is the first recorded version of Amazing Grace Rev J C Burnett - "Amazing Grace" [Like so many great tunes, they seem instantly timeless. At the beginning of this recording Burnett claims it is an "old Dr Watts hymn his mother used to sing years ago."] Anonomous Bluegrass musician - "Amazing Grace" Mahalia Jackson - "Amazing Grace" National Sacred Harp Convention, Birmingham, Alabama 2002 - "New Britain" [Amazing Grace was first sung to the tune of New Britain by Sacred Harp singers in the 1983s.] Jones Brothers - "Amazing Grace" Anonymous Clawhammer Banjer Player - "Amazing Grace" Five Blind Boys of Alabama - "Amazing Grace" 2002 Cullman County Gospel Singing Convention at Vinemont, Alabama - "Amazing Grace" - New Book Gospel Shape Note Singing [Produced by Steve Grauberger] Lula Collins - "Amazing Grace" Rebels Quartet - "Amazing Grace" Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers - "Amazing Grace" - Traditional Musics Of Alabama Volume 4: African American Sacred Harp Singing - Wiregrass Notes Revised Sufjan Stevens - "Amazing Grace" Five Trumpets - "Amazing Grace" Henry Nelson and Keith Dominion Congregation - "Amazing Grace" - Sacred Steel [Nelson is the gentleman on the left in the pic. Willie Eason on the right.] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/61476