"I Told Jesus" - Jason Walker

“I Told Jesus”

Jason Walker
From Just Like You (2008)

http://www.jwalkmusic.com/

Guitars snarl and flash like bolts of lightning, and bass rumbles like the roll of distant thunder as Jason Walker asks the Lord, in the spiritual "I Told Jesus," if He would change his name.

Walker knows the price of discipleship, but the swirling, glowering instruments make it no easier to decide. The confrontation has an elongated, surreal quality, as if taking place on a Salvador Dali landscape. Walker’s final declaration, however, silences the musical voices.

Jason Walker is the son of Rev. Charles Walker of Philadelphia and kin to Mahalia Jackson. His self-released CD Just Like You mixes secular and religious music together to produce what he calls “folk-soul.”