![]() The entire 33-minute record is one musical piece without pause, and with sparse instrumentation and production, built around minor chords throughout. I refer the reader to “ Jonah” from the 1980 LP “ One Trick Pony,” or his use of the melody from the old hymn “O Sacred Head Now Wounded” for his 1973 song “ American Tune,” or the heartbreaking yet uplifting story of the refugee family who finds shelter in the church from life and death in “ The Coast,” from 1990’s transcendent “Rhythm of the Saints.” This list can be easily extended. The Psalter is the Bible’s songbook, and tradition attributes most of the Psalms to King David, whom the Bible dubs “the sweet singer of Israel.” And while Paul Simon is not known for a large number of biblically inspired songs (“ Bridge Over Troubled Water” being the notable exception), he has touched upon biblical and religious themes before. While “Seven Psalms” has an air of finality in terms of this world, it hints at an open door that leads into much larger rooms. Paul Simon, another octogenarian songwriter, has just released a new album entitled “Seven Psalms.” Bob Dylan turned 82 last month Paul McCartney will be 81 this month. Willie Nelson just celebrated his 90th birthday with a two-day series of tribute concerts at the Hollywood Bowl. We are living in the twilight age of significant singer-songwriters who have worked in a biblical idiom. (Think Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” or “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.”) From there it moved into folk music, most notably Pete Seeger’s “Turn! Turn! Turn!” and a huge chunk of Bob Dylan’s ever-expanding catalog. Yet the long history of American-mostly Protestant-hymnody, set to the cadence of the King James Bible, is embedded in our collective religious consciousness. Learn more about our features and start transcribing today at Americans understand the Bible as a rulebook for how to live your life, but fewer think of it as a hymnal. While we still have a long way to go before we can transcribe in every language spoken by humans, today we have made a major leap forward to cover those languages that the vast majority of humans on Earth communicate in. Just be sure to set your file's language at the upload page. ![]() Subscribe and pay 8¢ per minute, regardless which language you are transcribing in! Whether you need a transcript in Bulgarian or Hebrew or English, pay the same fixed price.Īnd we support almost every audio and video file format/codec, and once your transcript is finished, you can easily edit, annotate, and export your script to the program of your choice like Microsoft Word or Adobe Premiere. Simon Says uses speech recognition to automate transcription and in real-time. ![]()
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