“Help Me to Stay Saved”
Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson and the Spiritual Voices
From the album Just Being Me
Verity Records 2006
www.verityrecords.com
You can’t help but grin during old-style quartet redux specialist Keith “Wonderboy” Johnson’s tongue-in-cheek rant on “that’s what’s wrong with the church today.” The song reminds me a little of Rev. Anderson Johnson’s 1953 slide guitar classic “God Don’t Like It,” especially the good Reverend’s concluding line, “Now I wasn’t talking about anyone/I was just singing my song.”
Light-hearted, harmless, and with none of the sanctimonious feel of some other songs in this vein, Johnson’s “Stay Saved” still gets its point across: you gotta walk the holy walk and talk the holy talk.
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