Christian Music

[Rev. Rye]

Honestly, I listen to a fair amount of religious music. I just ask my religious music the same thing I ask of my secular music: something either nice or interesting to listen to.

For instance, here's the last album I listened to, The Gospel at Colonus. As bizarre as the idea of taking the black sheep of Sophocles' Theban trilogy, turning it into a gospel musical, and having the Blind Boys at Alabama play Oedipus, (Yes, all of them, simultaneously) is, it's still pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZyQP_zrD2U

Granted, a lot of the stuff I had to listen to at church is boring.

And now for a quote from Bob Dylan:

“Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else. Songs like “Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain” or “I Saw the Light”—that’s my religion. I don’t adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. I’ve learned more from the songs than I’ve learned from any of this kind of entity. The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.”

It also helps that one of my favourite films includes a hymn as a major motif:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9LnkKQfuc