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By 1976, Green had renounced secular music and become pastor of a Memphis Baptist church.
Instinctively, he picked it up.
Ill in Arizona the next day, he put the cross around his neck.
Things got mystical from there.
Dylan says an apparition appeared to him in the night.
There was a presence in the room that couldnt have been anybody but Jesus, hetoldthe WashingtonPostin 1980.
Dylan wouldnt see another platinum album until 1997sTime Out of Mind.
Some take to calling that intent God.
Kanye Wests present rejection of secular music is bound to divide the fandom.
These moments bear out the newness of the enterprise.
Gospel is a music of the overwhelmed, the weary.
This energy comes and goes onJesus Is King.
When Kanye avoids his worst impulses, these songs get compelling.
/ Wonder if they gonna read your rights.
He can wield a chorus of voices like a sword of fire.
Every Hour opens the album in the middle of a brilliant choral exercise by Wests Sunday Service Choir.
They lift the invocation Selah into the stratosphere on a booming Hallelujah chorus.
Water sends voices careening around the mix like a school of fish.
The triumphant vocal feels like a photo negative of the self-excoriation of Runaway.)
The crater is both a wise and an odd place to think to shoot a gospel movie.
Gospel is communicative music.
Audience and performer have a rapport; they stew and stir each other til the room bubbles over.
you could see it happen in the selections at any church service.
it’s possible for you to watch it in any of the classic gospel documentaries.
Everything We Need was home to a verse full of threats fromthe late XXXTentacion.
The music ofJesus Is Kingis pretty, and the message is mostly positive.
Three years into his red-hat era, theres no end on the horizon.
