Religious music for less than devout


We have a thread " Jazz for someone who doesn’t like jazz. " In a similar vein perhaps "Religious music for the less than devout".

"people get ready" - Rod Stewart
"Amazing Grace" - Jessye Norman
2009 "Duets" - Five Blind Boys of Alabama, The - entire CD
1988 "Sweet Fellowship" - Acappella, the entire CD

In 1989 I was working in NJ, I may have been the only guy on the job who did not know he was working for the Irish Mafia. I would lend people the CD "Sweet Fellowship" and they were willing to pay for it but never return it:

"Here is $20 kid, go buy yourself another cuz youz can’t have mine back. Now don’t ever ask me again."


timothywright
An inversion of the question, it’s a wonderful track by Vienna Teng called “Hymn of Acxiom”. She sings it in a religious choral gospel style but it’s really a hymn about Google and ‘Big Brother’ surveillance. She won the thirteenth annual Independent Music Awards for best A Cappella song. It sounds like a choral group but it’s really her singing solo through a vocoder. You can find it on Tidal and several great covers are on Youtube with my favorite by the Parkway West Jazz Choir, real singers in that case, not a vocoder.
Paul Hillier conducts Arvo Part, choral and instrumental music (3 cd set on the Harmonia Mundi label).
Beautiful, simple, unique.
@slaw 

Regarding Kerry Livgren, you can't let what one person's interpretation of anything, conflict with your own.
There have been others to make similar comments.

While T Bone Burnett’s music and lyrics are not overtly Christian, he’s a believer. He was a member of the church Dylan started attending during his conversion, the church where the two met, I believe. T Bone was a member of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue cast. T Bone’s now-ex-wife Sam Phillips had a career in the Contemporary Christian field (under her real name, Leslie Ann Phillips) before going secular.

Speaking of Bob, Lennon was extremely critical of Dylan gettin’ religion. Guess he hadn’t listened all that closely to Bob’s lyrics. My God, had he not heard the John Wesley Harding album?!