Tuesday, July 04, 2006

TBGB Pick of the Week: July 3, 2006

“Help Me to Stay Saved”
Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson and the Spiritual Voices
From the album Just Being Me
Verity Records 2006
www.verityrecords.com

You can’t help but grin during old-style quartet redux specialist Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson’s tongue-in-cheek rant on “that’s what’s wrong with the church today." The song reminds me a little of Rev. Anderson Johnson's 1953 slide guitar classic "God Don't Like It," especially the good Reverend's concluding line, "Now I wasn't talking about anyone/I was just singing my song."

Light-hearted, harmless, and with none of the sanctimonious feel of some other songs in this vein, Johnson's “Stay Saved” still gets its point across: you gotta walk the holy walk and talk the holy talk.

1 comments:

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