Totally destroys me. EVERY time. I don't call myself a Christian, but this, THIS communicates pure Christian devotion to my paltrey understanding like almost nothing else. The first time I heard this was in the early '00s driving a load  (tin stock, maybe?). I had find somewhere to pull off and park 80' of rig to cry for some time about a third of the way through.

As I told my son who sent me the link if the old fellow was a Catholic he could have been singing about the Holy Sacrament, or the red wine part of it and as a guy living on the streets cheap red wine would have been his go to back in the '70's,sorry

lovely song , amazing back story praise the LORD Amen 🙏

The unfailing blood and love of Jesus is the essence of Life eternal, and this poor old Cockney man got it !!

Doesn't make me cry, but it never fails to inspire me!

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This piece of music from 1971/1975 is by an experimental composer by the name of Gavin Bryars. It’s called “Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet.”

It has a kind of distorted loop of a homeless man – Scottish or Irish – and he’s singing that little refrain, “Jesus’ blood never failed me yet…”.

Bryars builds this orchestration and chord structures and melodies around this loop. But it really just repeats this loop over and over.

And it’s pretty compelling. There’s stories of Bryars while he was building the loop, it was playing in a section of the art school that he was working in, and people that were painting next door came to him sobbing, and said, “You’ve got to turn that off! It’s affecting us too much.”

Story: http://en.wikipedia.org/…/Jesus%27_Blood_Never_Failed_Me_Yet

Gavin Bryars - Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1975)

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