Frank Newsome sings Sweet Beulah Land

[vafolklife]

Frank Newsome has just received the National Heritage Fellowship, the highest honor that the United States Government bestows on a traditional artist!!

[orytina]

Thanks jeffery one of my favorite songs.

god bless and take care. Thumbs up fr wayne........

[katenewsomedeel]

My Uncle Frank, you have a voice like no other, I am very proud of you !! May God Bless you in everyway, esp your breathing !!!

Love you all!!!

Katie

[JAMIEWORKMAN1]

pretty

[bkbj95]

beautiful



[usmc2097]

i know this guy frank newsome from somewhere if you read this frank do you know my grandpaw donald akers or grandmaw kathey spears from eastern ky. either way great job. i listen to this song every night before i fall asleep it helps me in these hard times. god bless brother

[SilentSepia]

Beautiful!!!...Glory To Jesus Christ Our Lord, God and Saviour...I am an Orthodox Christian...and this sound echoes some of the hymns that are sung and chanted by Christian monks back in the old countries...this is a Heavenly sound...Thank You for posting this!

[barry21563]

i just this preacher newsome in bristol tn at a music fest. he did a sunday morning workshop on gospel and it was one of the most moving things i have ever witnessed. it was unreal emotion.

[vafolklife]

Thanks Barry. I was up there with him, along with Jim Lauderdale. What a special morning, and what an amazing man.

Best, Jon Lohman

Virginia Folklife Program

[SwordofHighlanders]

I have lived and breathed this in the mountains of North Carolina. Sunday mornings in the shadow of Mt. Mitchell where in a small Pensacola Methodist Church, Lon Autrey sang in the same

style with a passion and grace only early

settlers past on to their children and grandchildren. He, one of many, inspired

myself down a road of music that has also

blessed and encoraged others to develope

their own musical gifts. Its a sound thats growing faint with each passing day.

Joel Robertson

[Steve1945]

What a passionate and emotional experience it must be to attend a service at Frank Newsome's Old Regular Baptist Church in Haysi, Virginia. I'd guess that the tears flow freely. Whether you share his faith or not, he sums up the pain of human suffering more eloquently than any singer I've heard in a long, long time.

[angelladywhtdv]

Bro Frank is one of the most precious brother's the Regular Baptist has. I have known him for many years. He and my deceased husbands has been in many meetings together. His name was Sollie Miller Jr. tomorrow will be 3 years since he went home to be with Jesus. But he sang the same songs bro Fank does. He was a deacon at The Little Memory Church in Sunman, Indiana.

Love you bro Frank and Sister Geraldine.

Sister Georgia(Miller) Moore

[blondekaylee22]

god blessed him with that voice

[mrhugefan]

enjoyed this bro. newsome. its one of my mothers favorites. she enjoyed it also.

[fespar]

Wonderful,just wonderful.Thank you!!!!!

[designink]

There is a theory about collective memory--some things that are deep and primal that we pass on genetically. When I hear celtic music it moves me in such a way that I know it is a part of me. And this rendition of a song I have heard many times before moves me in such a way.  I am Scots-Irish and have my roots in England, Scotland, Ireland then to Colonial America: Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas. What a beautiful sound! Not to mention the precious words!

[kyladybp208]

I love you Brother Frank keep up the good work

[alkirob]

this is the real thing