He had a Rheem organ with draw bars and a maple-finish Leslie Tone Cabinet. When I was in high school, I had a friend who played organ. If it hadn't been for Jimmy Smith, would we have had Booker T., Lee Michaels, the organ lead in Santana's "Soul Sacrifice," Jimmy McGriff, and James Brown's manic organ breaks? talk about a nostalgia trip.I was 12 when I was listening to this and it just energized me and made me feel like I'd run into an old friend. It was electronically identical to Jimmy's B3 but the resemblance ended there. My mom was our church organist and played a Hammond C3 there. I liked The Beatles, but Jimmy's Hammond organ technique really lit me up every time. This was 1965, when The Beatles' "Help" and "Rubber Soul" topped the charts. The baptism scene and its soundtrack in "O Brother Where Art Thou?" turns on my waterworks every time.
So I had a close relationship with someone who had a near identical experience to the river scene and song depicted in the film and on the record. When gathering outdoors on a riverbank for baptisms, the congregation sang "Shall We Gather at the River?" instead of "As I Went Down in the River to Pray." He said he was so small at the time that the pastor baptizing him held him up so his feet didn't touch the river bottom. I remember him telling me he was 6 years old when he was baptized in an Illinois river because his church was too poor to have a built-in baptistry in their church building. When I was listening to "Down to the River to Pray" on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, it evoked an overwhelming wave of nostalgia. My parents were born in 19 and grew up in rural Illinois.
I grew up in a simple Evangelical Christian home. I find the analog signal chain and my refining tweaks to have an emotional impact I seldom had in digital.
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I'm 66 now and had a tough 2019 in and out of the hospital plus a stroke that seems to have turned me into a "sentimental old fool." When I dropped digital for vinyl, it amped up the tear factory. The common thread seems to be getting older and realizing one's youth is long gone. "Brothers in Arms" is pretty damn emotional, too. Strangely, once in a while I'll hear "Down to the Waterline" by Dire Straits, and when that last verse comes around and Knopfler makes reference to the now-much-older-girlfriend feeling nostalgic/melancholy about the places she and the boyfriend trod, it will touch an emotional nerve. Perhaps some might find it trite, but for me, it's most of the verses in "Time" by Pink Floyd and Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle"-especially as my kids are growing up and moving out.
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