The latest cd i bought from Larry Norman was Maximum SOn.
On this CD i stumbled upon the very nice version of “Lord if i got my ticket” a very old negrospiritual.
In this version Larry shows us how he is able to move within one song from old negro spiritual music to modern rock and roll within the same textframes.
To me this is a true diamond among all of his other songs.
Here he is putting all he has said about rock and roll came from the african enslaved people to america .
During this song he is able to practise musically what he has been saying for years about modern rock and roll as the provence of God instead of that of the devil. In contrary to what most elderly people during the fifties were saying.
The song starts with a very old fashioned negroe spiritual oriented way of singing and moves as the song developes to heavier accompanied guitars,drums and distiortion until the song has completely shifted into a real rock and roll song.
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