Wall of Hillbilly Sound Takes Me South

Adding to the bourbon playlist. This song is simply spectacular: Northfield, by the Alabama Sacred Harp Singing Convention which we have in our collection thanks to the Appalachians disc that we picked up some years ago. It was the soundtrack of a PBS series by the same name.

I don’t really know the music but I know the genre and the genre is bourbon. It reminds me of polyphony and I once described polyphony as “the new bourbon”, although i probably wasn’t completely sober when i made that allusion. Here’s a video of a choral group singing this soaring piece:

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