Video Moment: Rev. John Wilkins in Como, MS

Check out this video of Reverend John Wilkins playing and singing “I Want Jesus To Walk With Me” in Hunter’s Chapel, his church in Como, Mississippi.

It’s part of The 78 Project, which records modern musicians on a 1930s Presto direct-to-disc 78 rpm field recorder.

Rev. John Wilkins, who released the critically-acclaimed You Can’t Hurry God, is the son of Rev. Robert Wilkins, a bluesman turned preacher.

Lavinia Jones Wright of The 78 Project said Rev. Wilkins “believes that only two musical recordings have been made in Hunter’s Chapel: ours and the seminal 1964 recording of Mississippi Fred McDowell.”