Gavin Bryars (feat. Tom Waits) - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Part 5)

Starts with the tramp and Tom Waits sing in a "duet", and builds up gradually to a fully fledged hymn.
Inspiring.

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• Waits
• Minimalism

[onceuponamidnightdry]

The CD version done by Gavin Bryars and Tom Waits is one of the most moving musical pieces I have ever experienced in my 50+ years of listening and performing.

Thank you for posting this abbreviated version.

[inlandempires]

@onceuponamidnightdry Thanks !!!

[TheManMachineGun]

Hi. I did not know that they had worked together. I like both of them. Where did you find this ? Thanks for posting.

[inlandempires]

This is taken from the Point music (Philip Glass' label) of "Jesus' Blood". Bryars expanded the original recording (lasting around 25 minutes, on Eno's Opal label) to 70 minutes, and added a part for Tom Waits. Waits was happy to participates, since he admired the work, and lost his original LP version.

[miracleman67]

For 10 years the local public radio station used to play the long version once a year. Eventually it became such a disruption that they had to stop. Listeners bombarded the station with calls of concern, the police were called almost every year by people assuming that something terrible had happened or that the station had been taken over by evil forces. Hypnotic and unfogettable.

[ww2berry]

@miracleman67 funny

[didsburyduck]

I first heard this (the original, pre- theTom Waits kitsch-fest) when I was listening to Radio 5 at 3 a.m. on a cold winter's night in the U.K. to make absolutely sure that President Reagan was being re-elected. He was - by a landslide - and this just seemed pure serendipity. And so it proved. I am sure everyone else agrees - if not for entirely the same reasons.

[Neoliticum7]

@vichy766 Yes, it is a nice song!

[Neoliticum7]

@miracleman67 I've been looking for this song for years now, and as a wonder I've found it. :-)

[vichy766]

I first heard this on 10/99 while driving to a hardward store listening to Radio station WRPI 91.5 in NY. I was getting parts for a woodstove. About 2007 I tried to recall something I had written in the car on scrap paper and found this, later having purchased the CD. It came back as eerily and dramatically haunting as the night drive I heard it in the car years earlier.

Extremely touching.

[djouletube]

After a search about Tom Waits on the net, I realize I found it on his birthday :)

[djouletube]

I finally found this song, something like 10 years after I heard it for the first and only time.

Absolutly beautiful.

Thanks

[jackal59]

I'm hallucinating the choir starting at about 3:50, aren't I? As far as I know, there is none in this performance; it's like the string sonorities are taking on human voice.... I should probably go to bed.