Well, it's done! Jeanette Dill (aka Dad's wife of twenty-five years and the singing half of the gospel duo Crimson Rose) has completed her latest CD for Dill Records. In celebration, I've made a video and uploaded it to You Tube. I know what you're thinking. Yeah, that's great, but what's in it for me? Well, a beautiful song for one thing, and one, that like many county/gospel songs, comes with its own little story.
"My mother really didn't think I could make it without her prayers," Jeanette told me, when I was working on uploading the video. "She really believed I needed them."
When Jeanette's mother died several years ago, Jeanette did what countless other country/gospel artists have done in similar circumstances. She sat down and wrote a song about her mother's prayers and the angels that she believes those prayers have sent to her side on more than one occasion. "Mama's Sending Angels" is a song in the greatest tradition of country and gospel music. Authentic, sincere, and you might just find yourself choking back a sentimental tear or two as you listen to it. But that's what good music does. It makes you feel...and, with any luck, relate to what the song is about. And if you like "Mama's Sending Angels", there's more where it came from. Jeanette's "He'll Split The Eastern Sky" album is a treasure trove of original gospel tunes, in which the spiritual and the traditional intermingle like old, loving friends who are more than happy to welcome you, the listener to their old school music party. Jeanette's songs come from a place where people still call on angels for help and aren't afraid to admit it. A place where music is as much a form of prayer as it is a special kind of medicine. And a place where pedal steel...that sad, singular sound that marks everything it touches as "country"...is still the once and future king.
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| Click to hear "Mama's Sending Angels" |
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