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Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet is a 1971 composition by Gavin Bryars based on a loop of an unknown homeless man singing a brief improvised stanza. [1] [2] The loop was possibly the singer's recollection of the chorus of a gospel hymn, by James M Black, published in 1911.
But in 1975, buoyed by the success of his solo career, he approached Island Records, who were receptive to the idea. [7] That year Obscure Records was launched with four albums released simultaneously. The album with the catalogue number Obscure no.1 consists of Bryars' The Sinking Of The Titanic and Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet.
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (for pre-recorded tape and ensemble), 1972; Medea (opera, libretto after Euripides), 1982, revised 1984 and 1995; CIVIL WarS (incomplete opera collaboration with Robert Wilson), 1984. Some sections of the music exist in completed form, as follows: On Photography for Chorus (SATB), harmonium, piano; 2B for ...
The album features two covers: The 1974 song "Lonely People" by America, and the 1971 composition "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" by Gavin Bryars. The song "Amazing Grace" is not a cover of the popular hymn but rather an original song written by the band.
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The homeless singer may have put two original hymns together "He Never Failed Me Yet" [1] and possibly "The Blood that Jesus once shed for me" [2] as there exists no record of a hymn with the precise phrasing he used. There is a hymn called "He Never Failed Me Yet" composed by the African American Robert J. Ray, composer,composer of Sacred ...
He had no living family. He was not famous. He lived alone. Yet on Tuesday, hundreds of people gathered at the graveside of World War II veteran Stephen Kolesnik Jr. and watched him laid to rest.