Why do who, what, where,when and why the lyrics were written even matter? Either you like it or you don't. if ya don't like it.. don't listen to it. There are 2 things that you should never argue about that is Religion and Politics. Arguing about either one is trying to force your opinions on someone else. Just sit back relax and listen to the music. These are MY opinions ya don't have to agree with them.
That song is awesome. I don't care about the religious nonsense we have going on in previous comments, I do care about the sheer genius of the Blind Boys of Alabama.
This is beautiful version of Amazing Grace. What a way to spread the Gospel... through blues music! My soul certainly responds to this very reverently-sung but still very bluesy rendition!
I seen these guys on the Today show about 12 years ago. I was so impressed that I went out and bought the C D that day. Very cool, by a group that has been around for a long time. I hope to have this played at my own funeral , but not to soon.
It is a cover of "House of the Rising Son" by the animals, layered with the gospel song, on purpose. It was intentional. They're a gospel band. The original song is about a brothel in the big easy. The whole thing is pure greatness. I saw the blind boys play, then met them after the show. It was excellent.
@octofish As well as this, the tune most people know for Amazing Grace is not the original one. I agree, this is a great version, and I hadn;'t twigged the connection between achieving grace and the original lyrics of HotRS. Thanks.
@moominpic This song is really only the lyrics to Amazing Grace. The music is "House of the Rising Son" by the DOORS- The notes are from the doors. Only the words are Amazing Grace. I have no problem with it myself, but the Doors are a "drug" rock band denounced by most Christians.
@shotsxxx Well the tune/song is much older than the Doors. It's an old American folk song. The Animals and Bob Dylan recorded it before the Doors were famous, and I think Dylan got it from Woody Guthrie. The arrangement is perhaps a little more modern but otherwise it's not a Doors original.
@shiffyboy The tune that most people recognise as that for Amazing Grace is not the tune which was originaly written when the words were , An american publisher who produced one of the first Hymn books of popular hymns added the more commonly known tune ( a scottish melody and rewrote the last verse).
To iluvboz10210: Yes, we really DO have to make it about faith, because it IS about faith. "When we've been gone 10,000 years, bright, shining as the sun. We've no less days to sing God's praise, than when we'd first begun." This is the "national anthem" of more religions than you ever even heard of. So while it's nice to think that it's all about music feeding the soul, it isn't. Plain and simple. Happy Easter.
House of the Rising Sun was the first melody I ever learned on guitar. My seven brothers taught me. They never got mad when I messed up. We are getting older, the remaining brothers will play this exact version when one passes on.
@iluvboyz10210 : Yes, we really DO have to make it about faith, because it IS about faith. "When we've been gone 10,000 years, bright, shining as the sun. We've no less days to sing God's praise, than when we'd first begun." This is the "national anthem" of more religions than you ever even heard of. So while it's nice to think that it's all about music feeding the soul, it isn't. Plain and simple. Happy Easter.
25 It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign [2] those of his household.
@ianuus and @ch01rm3mber4: No. The original lyric is "When we've been THERE 10,000 years, meaning heaven. Being it will be an eternal place, think way beyond that amount.
@moominpic ...when we've been here (heaven) 10,000 years, bright shining as the sun, (everything's shiny in heaven) we've no less days, to sing god's praise (that's what you do in heaven) than when we first begun (because of the eternal nature of heaven)
@doylecrabb Ah, interesting. Thanks. I hadn't thought of it like that. I assumed "here" was earth and the bright shining was having been washed clean by redemption and being able to sing praise forever because of being able to go forth to heaven. Thanks again.
@BBfilm Hey, no reason that we can't both be right, my friend. The lyrics of a good song means everyone can have their own personal interpretation. Peace!
who could ever dislike this? This moves me and brings me to tears, every time I listen and if this doesn't move you then you have no soul, of either kind.
@Doyle1688 Being an atheist, or further and agnostic or other religion that isn't christian and strong willed in what they believe. I am atheist and I like the guitar at the beginning, sounds like the intermission used in Burnistoun.
@IndubitablyMe1988 ...and if the song happens to have a religious meaning and you take it to heart? Yes, I agree with it transcending dogmas in general for the most part. Playing For Change is a good example.
@Jabberwocky010 Well thats your perogative. Music has no ties to religion or otherwise. The vocal harmonies, instrumentation, etc doesn't discriminate, but we both agree there. Its the artist's, as well as the listener's. choice as to what they wish to associate the music too, be it lyrically or cognitively. The music has the ability to stand on its own... well thats my oppinion anyway.
@IndubitablyMe1988 This comment made very happy. You did not make is a statement 'this is what it is and nothing else.' You said your opinion and mentioned that it is your opinion. Off topic of what we were talkking about, but thank you very much.
It's like the angels are crying - so haunting and SOOOOOO beautiful. I can't begin to express how it touches my soul except to say that it touches it so deeply that it hurts.
Amazing Grace as sung to the tune of the House of the Rising Sun ... very different but haunting and God in the heart feeling. Amazing truly, is God's grace.
I only go to the "church of me", but playing this whiled meditating with snow falling on the ground has chills running from atop my head to the bottoms of my toes.
Anyone familiar with The Animal's House of The Rising Sun? Of course you are. You hear it? Wonderful how The Blind Boys were inspired and merged the elements of that Rock classic with this Gospel classic. Or was this first and it is the other way round?
Wagriffith - The reason (I think) the African American images are in the video is that the original composer of Amazing Grace was the captain of a slave ship. He was converted to Christianity mid-way through one of his slave ship voyages, repented, and turned away from his evil ways. Thus the black civil rights movement images make perfect sense, in context. Thought you might find that helpful.
Wagriffith - The reason (I think) the African American images are in the video is that the original composer of Amazing Grace was the captain of a slave ship. He was converted to Christianity mid-way through one of his slave ship voyages, repented, and turned away from his evil ways. Thus the black civil rights movement images make perfect sense, in context. Thought you might find that helpful.
A fantastic and Powerful tune by the Blind Boys! They're always an Amazing group! What I don't quite understand,however,is why the odd images in the video? Aside from their being obviously Black,what do the images of slavery and MLK etc. have to do with anything of the song lyrics or the Blind Boys themselves?? Why didn't you post more photos(and better ones at that) of the Blind Boys themselves??
Brilliant. I heard this rendition of the song when I attended a performance of a dance troupe called PUSH Physical Theatre. Amazing all the way around.
& I love the sound of ... ... electric guitars & the wonderful song! just love it!! it takes hold of the whole heart & soul ... amaizing grace of Jesus
This is fantastic. It works so well with this tune. Although the "New Britain" tune is more famous, nobody knows what (if any) tune the original text was written for.
Its interesting how many songs are interchangeable like this.
You can swap the music and lyrics around with Amazing Grace, House of the Rising Sun, O' Little Town of Bethlehem, and the theme to Gilligan's Island any which way and they still work. Some of them sound ridiculous but they still work musically.
@THRILLAKILLA187 Thank you for sharing this amazing song, as you know it could have not come at a better time...today would have been my son's 38th birthday..RIP my son...I love and miss you so very much! AMEN!
This is great, the Blind Boys are equally good. I humbly suggest that you look up the name Wintley Phipps. Read about him and then listen to his version. You will be moved.
This is a beautiful version of Amazing Grace. The song fits the melody of the folk song House of the Rising Sun beautifully. For those interested in minute: The House of the Rising Sun is about a young woman who goes to New Orleans and becomes a prostitute at the House of the Rising Sun. The pop version changed the woman into a male gambler. I'll never understand why. "Go and tell my little sister, not to do as I have done. But shun that house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun!"
@PassTheKoolAide the musical structure IS House of the Rising Sun. The Blind Boys of Alabama basically took the Animals' version of HotRS, slowed it down to make it more soulful, and put Amazing Grace to that tune. The chords are exactly the same but the rhythm is about half as fast as the Animals tune.
Wow..... i remember LOVING Amazing Grace as a kid.... as an adult, I kind of got embittered towards it, just because it's SO widely used in SO many "cliche" sorts of situations. However, reading about the author of the song made me look at the lyrics in a whole new way, and thus the song has been given new life and enw love for me. God bless you for posting.
we have been singing this song in my church all of my life, and i didnt learn the "history" behind in until a few years ago, and i have had a new appreciation for it ever since
I feel so cheated that I have been not known this out-of-this-world band untill now.IThis band is unbelievable, better than any sound I have ever heard.
@farmboi64469 This is Amazing grace and the music is the slow version of the song "House of the Rising sun" By The Animals. Very well put together by the Blind Boys of Alabama
Heard this many times. and still makes me go "Wow!!!" Excellent merge of an unrelated song and melody. If these guys had recorded nothing else, this song makes them a big deal.
web98 wrote: "I knew that song was too soulful to be written by British people!"
What a dweeb!
1. "House of the rising sun" is about a whore house!
2. Blues, "soul" and Amazing Grace are composed in the Pentemic scale, not the 12 tone scale 'of the west', which is why it it fits so well. BTW, this is also known as the "slave scale" and it's very likely that the tune from Amazing Grace was overheard by John Newton when he was captain of his slave ship.
Serpent, i'm PRETTY sure that the blues are made in the blues scale, a similar scale, but not the same. I know who amzing grace was written by, but i'm talking about THE ANIMALS. Back in the 50s and 60s, white bands stole many black blues musician's music, this was one of thse songs.
secondly, i dn't understand your point about "house of the rising sun" being a whore houe, care explaining yourself?
This is about a brothel in New Orleans. "The House Of The Rising Sun" was named after Madame Marianne LeSoleil Levant (which means "Rising Sun" in French) and was open for business from 1862 (occupation by Union troops) until 1874, when it was closed due to complaints by neighbors. It was located at 826-830 St. Louis St.
I'm curious as to how both Serpent257 and Appreciating are so positive that House of the Rising Sun are about a Whorehouse. Considering that is just one of the many theories out there, and also Considering NO ONE knows who originally Wrote it and what it was about. And yes they have found evidence of a house owned by Madame LeVant in NO, but that does not make it fact on the matter of this song.
@web98 I fail to see how a song written by a white (former) slave trader from England, and a folk song which is believed to have originated in England (Eric Burdon of the Animals heard it being sung by a Northumbrian folk singer) are evidence of "white musicians stealing black blues music". The earliest versions of HotRS are by white singers and from the 1920's/30's.
Yes, an urban legend that goes all the way back to 1894 when H.L. Bennett added John Newton to the Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford: University Press, 1894)
Also John Newton himself was adding to this legend when he wrote "Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade" detailing his involvement in the slave trade.
Serpent - I think you mean the pentatonic scale - meaning 5 tones.
The blues scale, web98, adds an extra tone - the raised fourth / diminished fifth.
The pentatonic scale in both major and minor is really a subset of the western diatonic system and is more than encompassed by the 12 tone chromatic scale of the west - keep in mind that pentatonic means 5 tones.
Amaazing Grace was my father's favorite song .Now that he has passed on it has become a favorite of mine. Finding this version really moved me. Thank you for giving this song exposture.
House of the Rising Sun isn't written by British people at all. It's 100% American music and was recorded by early blues artists way before the Animals were born.
Is this not to the tune of house of the rising sun?
ElGorcho 1 month ago
im a msulim and i love this gospel song,its one from my bestb songs
sadlyclown666 2 months ago
Yes but they the music is House of The Rising Sun not Amazing Grace. Weird!
Ravenscaller 2 months ago
@Ravenscaller Weird indeed, but how sweet the sound!!!
jimmybtwentyone 1 month ago
Why do who, what, where,when and why the lyrics were written even matter? Either you like it or you don't. if ya don't like it.. don't listen to it. There are 2 things that you should never argue about that is Religion and Politics. Arguing about either one is trying to force your opinions on someone else. Just sit back relax and listen to the music. These are MY opinions ya don't have to agree with them.
TheHippyshoney 2 months ago
That song is awesome. I don't care about the religious nonsense we have going on in previous comments, I do care about the sheer genius of the Blind Boys of Alabama.
TheHayclan 2 months ago
This is beautiful version of Amazing Grace. What a way to spread the Gospel... through blues music! My soul certainly responds to this very reverently-sung but still very bluesy rendition!
berniewatson1961 2 months ago
Praise the Lord today for the gift of Salvation! Grace to ye my brother. Allison, I love you RIP
MythObject 3 months ago in playlist Liked
how'd we get from good music to arguing over petty things?
chikiout 3 months ago
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genxxxersize 5 months ago
I once was lost but now am found. Was blind but now I see...
trinkspeacetree 5 months ago
Fantastic!!!!
HopeWithPandora 5 months ago
This music seems "The Animals - House of the Rising Sun "
skasso12 5 months ago 3
@skasso12 It is the same chord progression. Good ear ;)
MistaTMoney 5 months ago
@skasso12 I think it is, it's definitely not to the tune of amazing grace.
ElGorcho 1 month ago
The God of Israel love cannot be silenced!!! What a blessing to hear this and a great testimony through these men!!!
biblerock1 5 months ago
Music sounds like "The house of the rising sun"
circlebs1 6 months ago 7
@circlebs1 It is note for note
RSBoots 5 months ago
I seen these guys on the Today show about 12 years ago. I was so impressed that I went out and bought the C D that day. Very cool, by a group that has been around for a long time. I hope to have this played at my own funeral , but not to soon.
northfourty 6 months ago
It is a cover of "House of the Rising Son" by the animals, layered with the gospel song, on purpose. It was intentional. They're a gospel band. The original song is about a brothel in the big easy. The whole thing is pure greatness. I saw the blind boys play, then met them after the show. It was excellent.
octofish 6 months ago
@octofish As well as this, the tune most people know for Amazing Grace is not the original one. I agree, this is a great version, and I hadn;'t twigged the connection between achieving grace and the original lyrics of HotRS. Thanks.
moominpic 6 months ago
@moominpic This song is really only the lyrics to Amazing Grace. The music is "House of the Rising Son" by the DOORS- The notes are from the doors. Only the words are Amazing Grace. I have no problem with it myself, but the Doors are a "drug" rock band denounced by most Christians.
shotsxxx 6 months ago in playlist Poppy
@shotsxxx Well the tune/song is much older than the Doors. It's an old American folk song. The Animals and Bob Dylan recorded it before the Doors were famous, and I think Dylan got it from Woody Guthrie. The arrangement is perhaps a little more modern but otherwise it's not a Doors original.
moominpic 6 months ago
@moominpic Thank You- I did have some confusion to whom is the original artist-
shotsxxx 6 months ago
@shotsxxx Your welcome (and not the only one) :-)
moominpic 6 months ago
That beginning sounds a lot like the 1964 version of... the house of the rising sun by the animals.
1961walkingplow 7 months ago
Jackson Rathbone brought me here.
ArrivedOnRockets 7 months ago
John Newtons Lyrics "When we've been here 10000 years" in context is future tense...
dtstell 7 months ago
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shiffyboy 8 months ago
@shiffyboy The tune that most people recognise as that for Amazing Grace is not the tune which was originaly written when the words were , An american publisher who produced one of the first Hymn books of popular hymns added the more commonly known tune ( a scottish melody and rewrote the last verse).
thepeacefulpoet 7 months ago
hearing to this because osama died
mykasstu 8 months ago
i saw these guys open for peter gabriel and after this, i thought 'do i even need to stick around and see the the headliner?' stole the show.
cyclegeek 8 months ago 13
@cyclegeek They did the same thing at a BB KING concert I took my wife to in 2007. They are awesome!
mchllemay 5 months ago
@mchllemay your wife, shut the fuck up FAG! *bitch slap*
genxxxersize 5 months ago
@genxxxersize where does your hate and anger come from?
laceylace100 4 months ago
@laceylace100 CASEY ABTHONY IS A GODDESS, and so is YARA! ;o)
genxxxersize 4 months ago
@laceylace100 oops i forget, in answer to your query? from YOUR dead fuckin' mother! *bitch slap*
genxxxersize 4 months ago
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genxxxersize 5 months ago
this reminds me of the house of the rising sun.
FrozenChaosInc 8 months ago 3
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TheUkeygirl 7 months ago
To iluvboz10210: Yes, we really DO have to make it about faith, because it IS about faith. "When we've been gone 10,000 years, bright, shining as the sun. We've no less days to sing God's praise, than when we'd first begun." This is the "national anthem" of more religions than you ever even heard of. So while it's nice to think that it's all about music feeding the soul, it isn't. Plain and simple. Happy Easter.
ch01rm3mber4 9 months ago
House of the Rising Sun was the first melody I ever learned on guitar. My seven brothers taught me. They never got mad when I messed up. We are getting older, the remaining brothers will play this exact version when one passes on.
twinkie57401 9 months ago
This is one of the BEST versions of this wonderful songs I have ever listened to.
44Bravos 9 months ago
One of the two or three very different versions I love. The others are Celtic Thunder and one on bagpipes.
xoxonoso 9 months ago
Actually, this version first appeared in 2001 on the CD "Spirit of the Century" on the Real World label.
ssur55 9 months ago
really do you have to make it about faith? Its about the music and how it feeds the soul. Genera is insignificant
iluvboyz10210 10 months ago
@iluvboyz10210 : Yes, we really DO have to make it about faith, because it IS about faith. "When we've been gone 10,000 years, bright, shining as the sun. We've no less days to sing God's praise, than when we'd first begun." This is the "national anthem" of more religions than you ever even heard of. So while it's nice to think that it's all about music feeding the soul, it isn't. Plain and simple. Happy Easter.
ch01rm3mber4 9 months ago 2
@ch01rm3mber4 Doesn't the bible say the earth is 6000 years old? Isn't "when we've been gone 10000 years" blasphemous? Merry Christmas.
ianuus 8 months ago
@ianuus don't be silly
TheUkeygirl 7 months ago
@ianuus No, you idiot, the Bible does not say the earth is 6000 years old. Good grief, you people are stupid.
Dear God, Please make the idiots shut up! Amen.
mredyhcapamab 7 months ago
@mredyhcapamab Be kind. It will not cost you anything. Matthew 10:25
25 It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign [2] those of his household.
katbraden59 6 months ago
@ianuus and @ch01rm3mber4: No. The original lyric is "When we've been THERE 10,000 years, meaning heaven. Being it will be an eternal place, think way beyond that amount.
BBfilm 7 months ago
@BBfilm I thought it was "When we've been HERE...", meaning the earth. But the grammar means we haven't been here 10,000 yet.
moominpic 6 months ago
@moominpic ...when we've been here (heaven) 10,000 years, bright shining as the sun, (everything's shiny in heaven) we've no less days, to sing god's praise (that's what you do in heaven) than when we first begun (because of the eternal nature of heaven)
doylecrabb 5 months ago 2
@doylecrabb Ah, interesting. Thanks. I hadn't thought of it like that. I assumed "here" was earth and the bright shining was having been washed clean by redemption and being able to sing praise forever because of being able to go forth to heaven. Thanks again.
moominpic 5 months ago
@moominpic, when you're right, you're right. My error, thanks for pointing this out to me.
BBfilm 5 months ago
@BBfilm Hey, no reason that we can't both be right, my friend. The lyrics of a good song means everyone can have their own personal interpretation. Peace!
moominpic 5 months ago
7 people disliked this .... how is that possible , whats wrong with them ???
kargwain187 10 months ago 2
i love this song
cminksful 10 months ago
Amazing version
MrShediac 11 months ago
Brilliant songs mixed together creating genius!
shiblets 11 months ago
who could ever dislike this? This moves me and brings me to tears, every time I listen and if this doesn't move you then you have no soul, of either kind.
brunets4 11 months ago 2
This is soooo haunting.....I love it.
CarmenGreer79 1 year ago
This was played at my Grandpa's and my Cousins funeral..makes me cry every time!
REDDPAW 1 year ago 2
how can u dislike this song
Doyle1688 1 year ago 22
@Doyle1688 Being an atheist, or further and agnostic or other religion that isn't christian and strong willed in what they believe. I am atheist and I like the guitar at the beginning, sounds like the intermission used in Burnistoun.
Jabberwocky010 5 months ago
@Jabberwocky010 Athseism is not a religion... neither is agnosticism. Good music is universal and transcends religious dogma.
IndubitablyMe1988 4 months ago 3
@IndubitablyMe1988 ...and if the song happens to have a religious meaning and you take it to heart? Yes, I agree with it transcending dogmas in general for the most part. Playing For Change is a good example.
Jabberwocky010 4 months ago 2
@Jabberwocky010 Well thats your perogative. Music has no ties to religion or otherwise. The vocal harmonies, instrumentation, etc doesn't discriminate, but we both agree there. Its the artist's, as well as the listener's. choice as to what they wish to associate the music too, be it lyrically or cognitively. The music has the ability to stand on its own... well thats my oppinion anyway.
IndubitablyMe1988 4 months ago 2
@IndubitablyMe1988 This comment made very happy. You did not make is a statement 'this is what it is and nothing else.' You said your opinion and mentioned that it is your opinion. Off topic of what we were talkking about, but thank you very much.
Jabberwocky010 4 months ago
@Jabberwocky010 No problem. Reasonable discourse is a wonderful thing... I think more people should give it a shot. Bastards... lol
IndubitablyMe1988 4 months ago
It's like the angels are crying - so haunting and SOOOOOO beautiful. I can't begin to express how it touches my soul except to say that it touches it so deeply that it hurts.
oshaugnessy1959 1 year ago
@oshaugnessy1959 Are you sure that's your soul its touching? ;)
IndubitablyMe1988 4 months ago
Amazing Grace as sung to the tune of the House of the Rising Sun ... very different but haunting and God in the heart feeling. Amazing truly, is God's grace.
scrappergal2847 1 year ago
I only go to the "church of me", but playing this whiled meditating with snow falling on the ground has chills running from atop my head to the bottoms of my toes.
ASTOUNDING!!!!
Moonbeamdaisy 1 year ago
A fantastic take on an incredible tune and incredible words!
freekymusic 1 year ago
Anyone familiar with The Animal's House of The Rising Sun? Of course you are. You hear it? Wonderful how The Blind Boys were inspired and merged the elements of that Rock classic with this Gospel classic. Or was this first and it is the other way round?
TamarZucker 1 year ago
@TamarZucker haha no this was most definitely first. this is from the early 50's im fairly sure. a beautiful song
wr2809 1 year ago
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Wagriffith - The reason (I think) the African American images are in the video is that the original composer of Amazing Grace was the captain of a slave ship. He was converted to Christianity mid-way through one of his slave ship voyages, repented, and turned away from his evil ways. Thus the black civil rights movement images make perfect sense, in context. Thought you might find that helpful.
b0bbaker 1 year ago
Wagriffith - The reason (I think) the African American images are in the video is that the original composer of Amazing Grace was the captain of a slave ship. He was converted to Christianity mid-way through one of his slave ship voyages, repented, and turned away from his evil ways. Thus the black civil rights movement images make perfect sense, in context. Thought you might find that helpful.
b0bbaker 1 year ago
The music is a copy of Eric Burdon's version of "House of the RIsing Sun
masonbarge 1 year ago
A fantastic and Powerful tune by the Blind Boys! They're always an Amazing group! What I don't quite understand,however,is why the odd images in the video? Aside from their being obviously Black,what do the images of slavery and MLK etc. have to do with anything of the song lyrics or the Blind Boys themselves?? Why didn't you post more photos(and better ones at that) of the Blind Boys themselves??
Wagriffith 1 year ago
@Wagriffith Amazing grace was written by a retired (and penitent) slave trader it Britain in the 1800s
kignofpei 1 year ago
@Wagriffith Amazing grace was written by a retired (and penitent) slave trader it Britain in the 1800s
kignofpei 1 year ago
This is fucking spectacular. Haunting yet uplifting.
benthemagnificent 1 year ago
Brilliant. I heard this rendition of the song when I attended a performance of a dance troupe called PUSH Physical Theatre. Amazing all the way around.
claudiabokk9 1 year ago
I mercilessly abuse the "Replay" button for this song.
warfarein 1 year ago 2
Incredible...
skidooformulas 1 year ago
wonderful version of an incredible song
I do wish that a little more thought and some creativity had gone into the home-made "video"
jts001 1 year ago
I love this recording of amaizing grace!
& I love the sound of ... ... electric guitars & the wonderful song! just love it!! it takes hold of the whole heart & soul ... amaizing grace of Jesus
annakristina100 1 year ago
most beautiful version of this song ive ever heard!
amaaaaazing
Jaggerx33 1 year ago
this one way of "redeming" a melody.
2Bpatient 1 year ago
Aboslutely Awesome!!! So very soulful!!!
bioteach55 1 year ago
Killa......
RISINGfawnJUNCTION 1 year ago
Absolutely fabulous... it works on many levels - friend in Australia told me about this version and I'm glad I listened!
JellyBeans944 1 year ago
nice mixture!
Edenprojekt1 1 year ago
This is fantastic. It works so well with this tune. Although the "New Britain" tune is more famous, nobody knows what (if any) tune the original text was written for.
moominpic 1 year ago
Its interesting how many songs are interchangeable like this.
You can swap the music and lyrics around with Amazing Grace, House of the Rising Sun, O' Little Town of Bethlehem, and the theme to Gilligan's Island any which way and they still work. Some of them sound ridiculous but they still work musically.
EvilIggy 1 year ago
is it me or isnt this melody similar to house of the rising sun? still love this song tho
SoNoFTheMoSt 1 year ago
is it me or is this melody really similar to house of the rising sun?
SoNoFTheMoSt 1 year ago
sounds like house of the rising sun - the animals
anko8aug 1 year ago
Which album is this from as these guys have at least 3 different Versions of this song
rtwheels 1 year ago
@rtwheels Spirit of the Century
dezh 1 year ago
You go boys .... !!! I love this song wicked tune
Penny068 1 year ago
What brings me peace is knowing somehow, someway, Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan heard this and smiled!
mikezes 1 year ago
@mikezes amen!
Dronni3805 1 year ago
i want this played at my funeral one day
sicvitaest 1 year ago
@sicvitaest amen!
Dronni3805 1 year ago
Holy Mother of God, this combo is Righteous!
laughingowl28 1 year ago
@THRILLAKILLA187 Thank you for sharing this amazing song, as you know it could have not come at a better time...today would have been my son's 38th birthday..RIP my son...I love and miss you so very much! AMEN!
Thank you andrewgrummanJC for a divine post!
2009Denisem 1 year ago
The boys at their best . All in their 60's and blind , great band live.
camster64 1 year ago
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chrisnouvelle41 1 year ago
@chrisnouvelle41 Yeh they are great at this . Saw them a few years ago in Perth , Scotland . Great
camster64 1 year ago
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BassGuitarted 1 year ago
This is great, the Blind Boys are equally good. I humbly suggest that you look up the name Wintley Phipps. Read about him and then listen to his version. You will be moved.
USSAult 1 year ago
BEAUTIFUL, YOU CAN FEEL THE SPIRIT
MANGEKYOHEEROUCHIA 1 year ago
This is a beautiful version of Amazing Grace. The song fits the melody of the folk song House of the Rising Sun beautifully. For those interested in minute: The House of the Rising Sun is about a young woman who goes to New Orleans and becomes a prostitute at the House of the Rising Sun. The pop version changed the woman into a male gambler. I'll never understand why. "Go and tell my little sister, not to do as I have done. But shun that house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun!"
ZZBob777 1 year ago
@ZZBob777 There is a whole book on the "House" and it's background. Great reading Lar
larryc4ny 1 year ago
@larryc4ny Thanks for the tip. I'll look it up.
ZZBob777 1 year ago
Very well done, lots of feeling that comes across - definately worth listening to!
susieqty1 1 year ago
the ONLY version I love!!!!! This is the most amazing rendition- I LOVE IT! Thanks Blind Boys!!!
fortunmakr 1 year ago
this is just way too cool! more people should hear this!!
skidrow2036 1 year ago
Speechless..
lynnetteasis 1 year ago
Just get so emotional about this. Love it.
magwaggi 1 year ago 2
I soppose "the house of rising sun" it's an adaptation to this song, i am right?
JeminYeah 1 year ago
@JeminYeah
House on the Rising Sun is a completely different song from this.
PassTheKoolAide 1 year ago
@JeminYeah
Or unless you're talking about the musical structure -- then yeah, it's similar to House on the Rising Sun.
PassTheKoolAide 1 year ago
@PassTheKoolAide the musical structure IS House of the Rising Sun. The Blind Boys of Alabama basically took the Animals' version of HotRS, slowed it down to make it more soulful, and put Amazing Grace to that tune. The chords are exactly the same but the rhythm is about half as fast as the Animals tune.
MuffinPants1234 1 year ago
I saw this group for the first time on David Letterman. awesome. keep spreading the gospel in song. God has shed His light on you.
nb2d 1 year ago
Wow..... i remember LOVING Amazing Grace as a kid.... as an adult, I kind of got embittered towards it, just because it's SO widely used in SO many "cliche" sorts of situations. However, reading about the author of the song made me look at the lyrics in a whole new way, and thus the song has been given new life and enw love for me. God bless you for posting.
contrabndsuprman 1 year ago
we have been singing this song in my church all of my life, and i didnt learn the "history" behind in until a few years ago, and i have had a new appreciation for it ever since
BabyBoiQue 1 year ago
This Blew Me right out of My Seat..freaking Fantastic!!!!! wow...
ozzyozb 2 years ago
One of the best versions of this song ever recorded. Such a great arrangement and vocals! I LOVE this song.
tomg1800 2 years ago 3
@tomg1800 i would have to agree w/u!
waylo4526 1 year ago
I feel so cheated that I have been not known this out-of-this-world band untill now.IThis band is unbelievable, better than any sound I have ever heard.
hill46bronce 2 years ago
brilliant wow--- amazing grace lyrics and house of the rising sun--gotta buy these guys
jimmydeboy 2 years ago 3
REMEMBER ME O LORD!
Prophecy2016 2 years ago 2
A stunning rendition of a merged Amazing Grace and House of the Rising Sun. Amazingly, it works perfectly.
mckennaclan 2 years ago 4
The melody is House of the Rising Sun.
desertrun 2 years ago
Thank you for sharing. This is amazing. Perhaps the best Christian song I have ever heard.
farmboi64469 2 years ago 20
@farmboi64469 This is Amazing grace and the music is the slow version of the song "House of the Rising sun" By The Animals. Very well put together by the Blind Boys of Alabama
Mozinwrath 1 year ago 3
@Mozinwrath House of the rising sun is actually an old folk song..bob dylan covered it originally. no one really knows who wrote the actual song
Bikage21 10 months ago
@Bikage21 Leadbelly, my good man. He's a long forgotten blues singer.
PoetByDefault 8 months ago
Heard this many times. and still makes me go "Wow!!!" Excellent merge of an unrelated song and melody. If these guys had recorded nothing else, this song makes them a big deal.
Murple333 2 years ago
this song was in the documentary of the crips and bloods movie, nice song :)
Palafoxian 2 years ago
Utterly amazing version of Amazing Grace
tonedeafmunkey 2 years ago
This is the most beautiful version of an Amazing Grace that I´ve heard.
Julcisko 2 years ago 34
I just saw them in Sweden and they were incredible. Great, great song! Great band!
kravakrava 2 years ago 2
its cool
we should do more of this stuff
its a heart opener
valu777 2 years ago 3
web98 wrote: "I knew that song was too soulful to be written by British people!"
What a dweeb!
1. "House of the rising sun" is about a whore house!
2. Blues, "soul" and Amazing Grace are composed in the Pentemic scale, not the 12 tone scale 'of the west', which is why it it fits so well. BTW, this is also known as the "slave scale" and it's very likely that the tune from Amazing Grace was overheard by John Newton when he was captain of his slave ship.
Serpent
Serpent257 2 years ago
Serpent, i'm PRETTY sure that the blues are made in the blues scale, a similar scale, but not the same. I know who amzing grace was written by, but i'm talking about THE ANIMALS. Back in the 50s and 60s, white bands stole many black blues musician's music, this was one of thse songs.
secondly, i dn't understand your point about "house of the rising sun" being a whore houe, care explaining yourself?
web98 2 years ago
This is about a brothel in New Orleans. "The House Of The Rising Sun" was named after Madame Marianne LeSoleil Levant (which means "Rising Sun" in French) and was open for business from 1862 (occupation by Union troops) until 1874, when it was closed due to complaints by neighbors. It was located at 826-830 St. Louis St.
appreciating 2 years ago
I'm curious as to how both Serpent257 and Appreciating are so positive that House of the Rising Sun are about a Whorehouse. Considering that is just one of the many theories out there, and also Considering NO ONE knows who originally Wrote it and what it was about. And yes they have found evidence of a house owned by Madame LeVant in NO, but that does not make it fact on the matter of this song.
thomascocovenant 2 years ago
Tom, The House of the Rising Sun was a house of prostitution. Why fight it? It makes the Amazing Grace that much more intense.
moman 2 years ago
@web98 I fail to see how a song written by a white (former) slave trader from England, and a folk song which is believed to have originated in England (Eric Burdon of the Animals heard it being sung by a Northumbrian folk singer) are evidence of "white musicians stealing black blues music". The earliest versions of HotRS are by white singers and from the 1920's/30's.
moominpic 6 months ago
1) It's just an urban legend that Newton was a former slaver.
2) The tune of Amazing Grace was not formalized until late in the 19th century. Hymns tended to not have a set tune before then.
janusandjachy 2 years ago
Yes, an urban legend that goes all the way back to 1894 when H.L. Bennett added John Newton to the Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford: University Press, 1894)
Also John Newton himself was adding to this legend when he wrote "Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade" detailing his involvement in the slave trade.
(Cornell University Library, 1788)
BaconSnot 2 years ago
Serpent - I think you mean the pentatonic scale - meaning 5 tones.
The blues scale, web98, adds an extra tone - the raised fourth / diminished fifth.
The pentatonic scale in both major and minor is really a subset of the western diatonic system and is more than encompassed by the 12 tone chromatic scale of the west - keep in mind that pentatonic means 5 tones.
fingtone 2 years ago
This is my favorite gospel song, and I love the new rendition.
Gayook 2 years ago
Amaazing Grace was my father's favorite song .Now that he has passed on it has become a favorite of mine. Finding this version really moved me. Thank you for giving this song exposture.
blkjp 2 years ago
This sounds just like "House of the Rising Sun" by The Animals. I knew that song was too soulful to be written by British people!
web98 2 years ago
House of the Rising Sun isn't written by British people at all. It's 100% American music and was recorded by early blues artists way before the Animals were born.
Heathenhellion 2 years ago
i know that fool!
web98 2 years ago
Amazing flawless song! Awesome
tTorg 2 years ago
That guitar solo is filled with soul.
TheWhistleCollector 2 years ago
whoa! sent chills down my spine! Totally Awesome
vdoman 2 years ago
Same here but I can also give you a chill down your spine fluffy lol
BigPete1971 2 years ago
awesome!
kaizt 2 years ago
I found out about these guys browsing in Borders......WOW....I've told everyone about em......if this don't save ya, nothing will
sweetcecily 2 years ago
its the lyrics of amazing grace to the tune of house of the rising sun, thats kool
blackpower003 2 years ago
I thought the author was Scottish? At least that's what my friend from The Lowlands of Scotland told me. ;)
arboristman 2 years ago
The man who wrote Amasing Grace was a repentant Slave trader.
mrbdguard 2 years ago
Im a Roman Catholic, and i can tell you right now that its not the jobs of christians and catholics to save soulds from damnation. FOOL.
And he isnt "Corrupted with evil" until he repents. DONT GO PREACHING IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT. IDIOT.
Minikwon1991 2 years ago
most of the time the Gospel music version is the original !!
this song helped save my soul*
bless you #
the real keltic man~
rwm313 3 years ago 3
You're both idiots. Take your dogmatic rants elsewhere. This is about a great song.
sirReginaldFartsalot 2 years ago
Your call yourself "Sir Reginald Fartsalot.." I think I've made my point.
anncancook 2 years ago
The "Reginald" is for added class. Who names their family "Cancook"?
:D
sirReginaldFartsalot 2 years ago
awesome
assafbm1 3 years ago 3