I'll Fly Away & Other Gospel Favorites (Vol. 1)
by The Bower Brothers
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Amazing Grace
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Jesus Loves Me
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I'll Fly Away
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about
At that time, there was no concept or agenda for this work other than laying down a few of the gospel songs we’d heard throughout our youths and sending them to our parents on a CD. Our set-up and process amounted to one night, one hymnal, two acoustic guitars, and two mics. We set up, hit the red “record” button, and played through a select hymn a few times together. Picked the best version (we could live with) and “bounced it.” Our timeline didn’t afford us other options or room for ideas. (A reverent nod towards *The Basement Tapes.*)
We initially conceived this project in late 2019 or early 2020, intending it as a gift to offer our parents for their 50th wedding anniversary in July. However, the COVID pandemic offset all our intentions and plans that year – yours, too, we know – so that we were forced to delay the recording, regroup, and wait out the time in our separate COVID cocoons and quarantines. At our end, we’re still waiting to celebrate our parents’ 50th anniversary together as a family, in-person, all together again someday. In the meantime, we still have songs – we still have the music. In all the chaos, upheavals, and unexpected turns of the last couple years, we remain grateful that in the space of a few hours late one evening in December 2020, we could set up a couple mics and guitars and sing and play a handful of hymns for our folks; that we could sink into music rooted deep in our memories and nestled close to each of our hearts.
In the language of time and miles, we’re far, far away from our mother on her birthday today. But music has been closing distances, mending hearts, and binding humans together for as long as anyone anywhere can testify, really. And that about sums up our most ardent hope and goal for this simple work here: To let our mother know she is loved, and that you are, too, wherever these songs find you.
Jonathan and Daniel Bower
Joshua Tree, California
2/2/2022
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Performed by the Bower Brothers
Recorded for Mom & Dad
at the Whelping House.
Glenmoore, PA
December 2020
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