First, six definite decouplings of rock and roll from sex and drugs.
Norman Greenbaum, Spirit in the Sky
Johnny Cash, Personal Jesus. This is one powerful song.
Clapton and Winwood, Presence of the Lord.
Billy Preston, My Sweet Lord
George Harrison, Hear Me Lord
George Harrison, All Things Must Pass. Harrison was the Beatle with depth. Lennon the radical, McCartney the romantic, Starr the regular guy.
Bonus cuts
Stanley Bros., Rank Strangers
Bob Dylan, Gospel Plow
Bob Dylan, See that My Grave is Kept Clean
Bob Dylan, Father of Night
Iris Dement, Will the Circle be Unbroken?
Andrea Bocelli and Alison Krauss, Amazing Grace
Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet
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JSO sends us to Will You Remember Me? by the Pine Box Boys. The dessicated soul of the secularist is incapable of understanding religion. He thinks he will eradicate it. But religion, like philosophy, always buries its undertakers.