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The Blind Boys of Alabama have released a new album, and it is available on Rhapsody. Here's a link to the Rhapsody Radish, a Rhapsody link blog, with a link to the album page on Rhapsody.

The album's title song, (Jesus Hits Like The) Atom Bomb, is a remake of the version originally sung by a group called The Pilgrim Travelers. The Soul Stirrers. A group called The Pilgrim Travelers has also done a version of the song. I only know about the song because awhile back Bob mentioned it to me (I don't recall where he heard it from), and another colleague at Logos dutifully looked it up in Rhapsody so we could all hear it. The song was originally written in the early 1950's 1949 — quite timely (perhaps a bit too timely) for a song about an atom bomb. Here's the chorus:

Everybody's worried
About that atom bomb
No one seems worried
About the day my Lord shall come

(You'd better) set your house in order
He may be comin' soon
And then he'll hit like an atom bomb
When he comes, when he comes.

More info on the album and the song is available at Christianity Today.

If you dig gospel, the The Blind Boys of Alabama are highly recommended.