NPR introduced me to singer-song writer Susan Werner who has traveled a long way from being an Iowa Catholic farm girl. A repeating line in Werner’s song “Our Father” is “Deliver us from those who think they’re you.” At one point in the song after a reference to the role of women in the church, she sings: “Remind the Pope he could have been a girl.”
Friday, April 06, 2007
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...I was taken with that segment as well. The quality and range of her vocal style and depth/honesty of the lyrics out "The Gospel Truth" on a short list of must-get recordings...that would be a list of one presently.
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