everything leads to choir...
Feb. 4th, 2005 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
electriclandlistening to the soundtrack to Cold Mountain (didn't see the movie but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crankygrrl insisted I had to hear Jack White's version of "Wayfaring Stranger"). Was thinking of something else entirely while listening to "I'm Going Home" when I noticed they were singing "la, sol, fa" a lot.
Hm, I thought. That sounds really familiar, in an I've-never-heard-this-song-before-but-that-sounds-familiar kind of way...
Aha! It's shape-note music! Don't even have to look it up -- I can tell!
Everything leads back to choir, I tellya.
crankygrrl insisted I had to hear Jack White's version of "Wayfaring Stranger"). Was thinking of something else entirely while listening to "I'm Going Home" when I noticed they were singing "la, sol, fa" a lot.Hm, I thought. That sounds really familiar, in an I've-never-heard-this-song-before-but-that-sounds-familiar kind of way...
Aha! It's shape-note music! Don't even have to look it up -- I can tell!
Everything leads back to choir, I tellya.
