This is the Ballad...

...we all must sing

Another One for the Hymnal

Blind Willie Johnson's "I Know His Blood Can Make Me Whole":


Pair with Pablo Neruda's "Ode to Wine":

Wine
moves the whole springtime,
joy grows like a plant,
walls crumble,
boulders,
abysses close up,
song is born.

One More for the Hymnal: Linda Ronstadt y Mariachi Vargas, "Y ándale"

One More for the Hymnal: Victoria Williams "You R Loved"

One more for the Hymnal: Muddy Waters "Champagne & Reefer"

One more for the Hymnal: Lived in Bars

Cat Power, "Lived in Bars," The Greatest (2006).

One for the Hymnal: Answer in One of These Bottles

Caitlin Rose, "Answer in One of These Bottles," 2011.