Let's do something a little different today...again. Gospel and religious music isn't something I really listen to a lot, mostly because I'm not personally very religious and have trouble relating to the message. I enjoy Flyleaf, so I'll say that. "Peace in the Valley" came to me through Rcrd Lbl, and it is originally part of a 3-disc collection that goes by This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982. I have a few songs from this collection, but Lonnie Farris's "Peace In The Valley" isn't just your typical gospel. It might be that lovely-and-lazy electric guitar, or the percussion that makes you just want to sway, or maybe even Lonnie's smokey-yet-subdued vocals. It's gospel for the minimalist atheists inside all of us, though there is a religious message here, of course. I just take the lyrical content as part of the simple beauty of "Peace In The Valley," and that's it.
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