Coal Miner’s Daughter is among the best musical biography movies. The vocals in the movie were performed by the actors, Sissy Spacek’s performances worthy of the Academy Award. The rendition of Amazing Grace from a funeral scene in the movie is both authentic and moving. Apparently one of the stars insisted that it was most …
Subsequent to his rendition of Amazing Grace in Milan last Easter, Andrea Bocelli included a another recording sung as a duet with Alison Krauss on an album of sacred songs released late last year. I do hope a Krauss hymns album will come along one day or another.
Andrea Bocelli presented Music For Hope in Milan as an online program of sacred song for Easter Sunday. One voice as a response to the fact that physical distancing doesn’t necessitate social distancing, and celebrates the power that overcomes spiritual distancing. Here’s his rendition of Amazing Grace. This is the whole video.
I’ve mentioned Gurrumul’s The Gospel Album before. This duet of Amazing Grace with Paul Kelly is a standout. I found this commentary on the track from Rolling Stone Australia a bit bemusing: “The duo breathe new life into the well-known Christian hymn, Gurrumul’s adaption of verses into his own Yolngu language giving the immediate distinction, …
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