Sunday Drive: His Eye Is on the Sparrow

The beloved gospel song, sung by the late, great B. J. Thomas.

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Sunday Drive: In the Garden

Down South here, this old hymn is one that everybody knows, and is often played at both weddings and funerals.  It was a favorite of my mama's, too.  Anne Murray gives a definitive performance:

However, I did not know until today how the lyrics came to be written, which adds greatly to the song's significance.  

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Sunday Drive: Allen Dale, Gospel Medley

The songs Allen plays are "Are You Washed in the Blood?" "I'll Fly Away," "At Calvary," "When We All Get to Heaven," and "When the Saints Go Marching In."

Sunday Drive: This Little Light of Mine

The classic gospel song, as performed by the Plantation Singers of Charleston, South Carolina:

Sunday Drive: Down in the River to Pray

This gospel song was popularized by Alison Krauss in 2000, but was first published in a collection entitled Slave Songs of the United States in 1867.

Sunday Drive: Gospel Medley, 1954

And you thought Jane Russell was famous for only two things.

Sunday Drive: I Want to Stroll over Heaven with You

Alan Jackson's mama is in the audience here. I wish I could hear my mama sing again.

Sunday Drive: Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?

Sometimes my dear old Mama would say, when I'd done something nice for her, "There'll be many stars in your crown."  I knew it was an old Southern saying, but I didn't realize till now that it was from a song.  I 'spec a lot of our old sayings are from old songs, sacred or secular.  Like "if I'd known you were coming, I'd a-baked a cake," and such as that.

Here's some fine old-time bluegrass singing and picking by Alison Krauss and the Cox family.  Enjoy.  And think about your mama.



Lyrics here.