Folk · 2008 · 9 tracks · 1h 8m

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Richard Thompson

Nine traditional spirituals reimagined as long, spacious acoustic meditations. Just a master guitarist, a hushed voice, and empty space.

2008

A quiet, deeply reverent collection of late-night acoustic meditations that finds comfort in heavy, historic themes.

Tracklist · 9 Tracks · 1h 8m

01

Wade in the Water

7:45

02

There Is a Balm in Gilead

7:06

03

Steal Away

9:13

04

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

5:46

05

Deep River

8:44

06

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

6:11

07

Go Down Moses (Let My People Go)

7:28

08

It's Me, Oh Lord, Standing in the Need of Prayer

8:04

09

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

8:10

Moments Worth Listening For

The way the acoustic guitar mimics a weeping voice during the opening minutes of Steal Away, stretching the notes into long, resonant sighs.

The sudden, bluesy grit that enters his vocal delivery halfway through Go Down Moses, breaking the quiet spell with a flash of righteous anger.

The hypnotic, circular fingerpicking pattern on Swing Low, Sweet Chariot that slowly winds down like a clockwork music box.

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