This is a cassette tape that a friend of mine found at a local salvation army. The used cassette section is often the first spot we go to when at second-hand stores. This is the perfect example of what we're looking for. Everything about the tape is home-made. The recordings are scratchy and worn, the playing is imperfect, and the songs give a profound insight the man who sang them's life.
These are Christmas songs, and while the melodies are familiar the words are not. Mr. Wright does not appreciate the sorry state of Christmas in our modern age. His deep love for the solemn holiday of the birth Christ is the root of his intense disdain for all things "Santa." We've really made a mess out of Christmas.
I scanned and digitized the artwork and music so as to create a musical archive that might otherwise be lost forever in a sea of magnetic ephemera.
Elmer Wright - The Man That Sing The Gospel On The Pier
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