TBGB Pick of the Week: April 4, 2011

“For All We Know”
Jeff Majors
From the CD/DVD Sacred Epistles (2011)
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Sacred harpist and television host Jeff Majors transforms the 1934 Broadway gem by J. Fred Coots and Sam Lewis into an atmospheric worship ballad that is unlike any cover of the song I’ve ever heard.

Al Johnson provides a marvelous crooning lead vocal as the background vocalists harmonize like an angelic choir.  Majors’ harp soars and swoons as the melody moves at a meditative pace.

The song’s concluding line, “Tomorrow may never come, for all we know,” was especially poignant during World War II, but in this context could also be interpreted as a hushed anticipation of the end-of-days.  The track comes from the first volume of Major’s new series of CDs called The Epistles.