“When I turned around to say, ‘Hey,’ he was like, ‘Don’t mind me just keep going.’” “One day, while I was back there singing, I noticed one of my neighbors was quietly drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette in his backyard and listening,” Lee recalled. He added: “I’d noticed I was needing to do that more than normal recently.” And he rightly assumed others needed the same hope that comes from old hymns of faith. “But I grew up singing and playing in church, and when I’m having a hard time and dealing with anxiety, uncertainty and doubt, and just generally rough stuff, I sit in our backyard and sing old gospel songs by myself.” “We’re definitely a secular rock-and-roll band, that plays songs I write loud and amped up,” he said. But his music couldn’t completely stop - and the weekly, solo live-streaming gospel hour seemed right. Like many musicians, Lee and his band mates had to cancel tours - including a long one in Texas, centered on the popular yet postponed South by Southwest festival. In an interview with Nurturing Faith, Lee said music for him is “a deeply human mode of communication that can carry with it a sense of intimate connection, and I think we are all craving that right now.” One could almost feel the swaying in homes around the Internet when he rocked a bit with Luther Barnes’ “Satan Take Your Hands Off Me,” and the comment stream filled when he slowed things down with Kris Kristofferson’s hit, “Why Me, Lord?” Other comforting hymns of faith followed, such as “When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder,” “The Old Rugged Cross” and “There’s A Land That Is Fairer Than Day.”Īs requested by “Aunt Nancy” - Lee’s partner in family Rook competitions -he sang “His Eye Is On The Sparrow.” “When times are tough, this is a good one to sing.” “This is one I associate with my grandparents,” he said. With guitar in hand, or occasionally a banjo, he sings not the latest tunes on his albums or popular cover songs - but beloved hymns that shaped his faith while growing up in Birmingham, Ala.įor Holy Week, the live-streamed “Lee Bain’s Inclusivist, Liberationist Hour of Gospel” began with a soulful rendition of the spiritual, “Were You There (When They Crucified My Lord).” Then he sang the reassuring “It Is Well With My Soul.” All rights reserved.Lee Bains III had planned to be touring with his band, The Glory Fires - that “draws deeply from punk, but also soul, power pop, country, and gospel.” Yet, like just about everyone else, Lee became homebound this spring.Īnd, like many other musicians of all genre and varied notoriety, Lee has put his good gifts to good use.Įach Wednesday evening - “until COVID is over or I run out of songs” - Lee welcomes listeners into his Atlanta living room for a one-man, low-tech show via Facebook Live. Information to be reprinted or re-broadcast from this site without the expressed Producers: Luther Barnes album release date: April, 2002Īll content in GospelFlava © copyright 2002. Especially noteworthy is “Half A Man”, a gently reflective ballad that says: “Lord, I’ve tried to make it but I finally understand that without You I’m only half a man.”Īs perhaps one of Gospel’s most underrated artists, Come Fly With Me from Luther Barnes stands out as simply great Gospel. In between all these selections are several great solo moments from Luther Barnes himself. The First Lady of the Saxophone, Angélla Christie, adds flava to “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow” as Lisa Barnes takes the mic. Celebratory and again horn-infused, it’s a choir rouser with strong hooks and memorable chord changes. One of catchiest songs on the album is “If You Wait On The Lord”, featuring Wanda Barnes out front. The title track is guest-fest about being heaven-bound, with Doug and Melvin Williams, Darwin Hobbs and Dottie Peoples adding their vocals to Barnes’, and with neice Deborah Barnes lending her distinctive touch. Plenty of horns from Boyz ‘N Barry heavily spice the number as if it needed any more after Ligon gets through with it. The Red Budd Gospel Choir and Mark Greene Family and Friends join in.Īt the opposite end of he vocal spectrum is “Satan Take Your Hands Off Of Me”, a strongly traditional stomp written by Barnes that features the legendary Joe Ligon. Barnes intros the piece before Brown Clark enters with her clear vocals and sweet phrasing. Label-mate Maurette Brown Clark guests on the classic “Oh, How I Love Jesus”, fitting perfectly into the familiar tune. And yet, it’s an album filled with some wonderful cameo moments as familiar friends and family stop from song to song. Barnes but tweaked with his own stamp of originality.Ĭome Fly With Me is first project in which Barnes comes billed exclusively under his own name. Luther Barnes has been going strong for twenty years now on AIR Gospel, delivering the Gospel inspired by the tried and true style made famous by his father Rev. Reviews - Luther Barnes (Come Fly With Me)
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