hymns, pt. 2

[loligo]

Between finally watching Walk The Line a few days ago, and lim's new SGA vid set to Cash's cover of "The Mercy Seat", it's been a Johnny Cash sort of week. So I was poking around his discography and looked at the track listing for My Mother's Hymn Book. This should tell you something about regional variations in church music: in 18 years of regular

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[casperflea]

WorldCat is the database you want. If you have access to a University's databases, you'll have this. It's basically a coallation of all US libraries' holdings (plus a decent slice of Europe), so if it's ever been cataloged by a major library they have a record of it, and an ISBN.

[casperflea]

I mean, assuming it was published in the ISBN era. Gutenberg Bible: no ISBN.

[loligo]

Thanks! I can get into this with Andy's staff ID.

[rachelmanija]

The evil nuns in India sang "Softly and Tenderly."

[loligo]

Proving that either they'd never heard of "irony", or had a really hearty appreciation of it.

[riarambles]

I know seven of them, and I grew up somewhat north of where you currently live (west of Springfield, near the Illiniois River). About half were sung at my childhood church(es) and the other half my father had learned as a child and I learned them from him.