If you like Jesus Was a Cross Maker, you might also like I Said Goodbye to Me by Harry Nilsson and Bob by Kathy Heideman and the other songs below.. Name your playlist. The duration of song is 03:29. They each contain a wealth of bonus live and demo tracks that are miles above the standard filler. ) Rather, the two combine into a genre-less album length cycle that is, quite frankly, one of the greatest singer-songwriter albums ever committed to tape. But I have listened to it more than perhaps I've should've due to Heart Food's appeal to me. Jesus Was a Cross Maker song from the album Judee Sill is released on Aug 2012. Sill was working on songs for her third album when she died.
Though she dials up the drama in the vocal, her arrangement pulls back from the elaborate instrumentation of the original, opting to instead frame the gorgeous melody with only stark piano chords and an understated choral part in the final third that foregrounds a gospel influence made less explicit in Sill's studio recording. However, she kept a strong sense of faith and spirituality throughout her life - sometimes saying that she wrote songs that "were aimed at persuading Jesus to give people a break". Bob Harris and Don Bagley handled the strings. Her experimentation with drugs led her to fall in with a thief. This song is sung by Judee Sill. Few people really remember Judee Sill, which is a great shame, as she had a kind of genius. Loading the chords for 'Judee Sill - Jesus Was a Cross Maker - 1971'.
Her voice is incredibly warm and affecting, quietly optimistic. Dreams Come True is a much more casual affair. Please come down flyin low for me. "My stepfather was dumb and cruel, and my mother began to get more unreasonable herself, " she told Rolling Stone magazine in 1972 while on tour promoting her first album. Her father, Milford Sill, who owned a bar, died of pneumonia when she was 8. Written by Judee Sill 1972 EMI Blackwood Music BMI. Português do Brasil. The Los Angeles medical examiner ruled the death a suicide, The Washington Post wrote in 2006, "but those who knew her better have always contended that the 'note' found near her body — a meditation on rapture, the hereafter and the innate mystery of life — may just have been part of a diary entry or, perhaps, another one of her haunted, haunting songs beginning to take shape. It's got me thinking I could totally set a squirrel trap or two. That is, if Jesus was a cross maker- that is, he could build crosses—something antithetical to his nature as a healer and lover of people-couldn't her lover be truly different than how he appears to act?
Her life thus far had given her plenty of heartbreak to sing about, but instead of focusing on her damaged childhood and prison experiences, she chose to dialogue with her faith and spirituality, with religious and occult trappings underpinning her lyrics. Critics reacted warmly to her music, commercial success never followed. Real nice strings and spacious production on this. Her voice was quiet and fragile yet powerful. "Jesus Was a Cross Maker" was a close as she came to a hit.
Rewind to play the song again. Try our Playlist Names Generator. The Water label recently issued the fruits of his labor as a two-disc set entitled Dreams Come True: Hi, I Love You Heartily Here – New Songs, collecting together the remaining loose ends Sill left in her wake alongside a painstakingly documented book containing interviews with remaining family and friends. And in the interim, investing time and money in native and community food & health systems that sustain us so when all the big corporations melt down we can rely on what we've been growing for ourselves. It was during a desperation call to her brother for some help (as none of her other friends were willing to bail her out) that received the horrible news that Dennis had passed away due to a liver infection. She managed a few successful liquor stores heists before being busted at a gas station and shipped off to a reform school in Ventura. Judee Sill is one of the most tragic rock n roll stories. This has definitely been a topic of much discussion around my neighborhood quarantine bonfire hangs. Though the cause, a drug overdose, might have seemed to have resulted from the trappings of such a career — particularly at a time when excess was synonymous with the music industry — Sill's existence was much more labyrinthine. Here's a verse Ms. Sill wrote, which Warren leaves out: maybe he thought he had enough thunder on this record, already: I heard the thunder come rumblin'. When she moved back to California, she resorted to prostitution for a spell to support her massive habit.
What's your game plan for Western collapse? She sold one of her songs, "Lady-O, " to the rock band the Turtles, which released it as a single; it made it onto the Billboard pop chart in 1969. Choose your instrument. "I knew I was gonna become a junkie, and I did, " Sill told Rolling Stone. This album is the lesser effort, although I do love the hit too. I was intrigued by Judee Sill's work after learning of her through Case/Lang/Viers' Song for Judee. It is a great lyric. I sort of class her as one of those songwriters who could create truly heartbreaking music, along the lines of Nick Drake or Elliott Smith. Upload your own music files. Judee Sill was released in 1971. The light never looked so dim. Who would you love to sing duet with?
One song, "Jesus Was a Cross Maker, " had its seeds in a devastating breakup with a fellow songwriter. This batch of songs differed a bit from her first album. In real life, Sill was in love with a "bandit and a heart breaker" but she felt that there must be something inside of him that was good, despite that. She had an angelic voice and played piano and guitar. The record dabbles in folk and country figures, buoyed along by Sill's gospel-tinged piano lines, and some staggering baroque string arrangements. It would be the first of a series of personal tragedies and troubles that formed an undercurrent in her life.
It was around this time that David Geffen was starting his own label and looking for talent. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. These are all ornate tracks, but never once is Sill's voice or vision drowned out by her instrumentation. B1 Ridge Rider 4:28. Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term. And danger's in the wind. "The Apocalypse Express" is even better, beginning simply with acoustic guitar and upright bass before skipping into a powerful chorus. Jesus Was a Cross Maker by Zevon Warren. Requested tracks are not available in your region. "The Living End" takes up with religious imagery again, with the obvious titular metaphor giving way to lines about archangel "Gabriel's clarion call. " "That's the Spirit" opens the album with those loping, gospel-fueled piano lines that Sill learned in the joint, climaxing with a wondrous chorus of voices chiming in on the refrain.
Why were you drawn to this particular song? Cuz' I heard his sweet song, And it was gently enticin' me, Tho there was somethin' wrong; But when I turned he was gone. That's why I initially wrote this off as sounding like any of the countless generic singer-songwriter vinyl you can find for 99c at any thrift store. And wont give him a place to hide, He keeps his door open wide. We discuss the passion behind Chessa's latest rendition.
But lately I find her music superior to the music of Nick or Elliott.