I've mentioned it before, but for me the Amazing Grace live album by Aretha, from the early 70s, is maybe my top example of enjoying the music, despite my continued awareness that the lyrics and intent of the musicians are all about extolling and putting forth and testifying to a theistic philosophy and belief system that I find abhorent, illogical, irrational, inconsistent with any reality that I've ever seen, and usually maliciously self-abnegatingly followed even if there may be strong elements of so-called "good intentions". I am somewhat (but not entirely) helpless against the gospel/music/art and have to admit I"ll choose that recording to listen to, over many others, much of the time.

At least, that was the case for awhile. I seem to be listening to very little music, so I'm not sure how I feel about it at this point.

For those who might not know, and might be interested, this video of the recording of that album, in a Church, came out only a few years ago. From what I understand, it was delayed for decades by a technical problem - the video was not synced properly with the music, or something like that. But in recent years they found a way to overcome this.

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good piano player too

I remember that song well from my less placid youth.