{"id":10980,"date":"2013-12-06T21:23:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T02:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=10980"},"modified":"2013-12-06T21:23:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T02:23:33","slug":"the-other-singing-nun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-other-singing-nun\/","title":{"rendered":"The other singing nun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/fire-632x640.jpg\" alt=\"Fire\" width=\"632\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10983\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Something I came across this morning: Christian &#8220;popular&#8221; music that isn&#8217;t embarrassing. ((Although there are many good musicians who are seriously religious, the only one marketed as a &#8220;Christian&#8221; performer whom I enjoy listening to is Phil Keaggy, a superb guitarist and pretty good singer and songwriter.)) In 1976, Sister Irene O&#8217;Connor, a Franciscan nun in Australia, recorded the album <i><b>Fire of God&#8217;s Love<\/b><\/i>, playing every instrument and singing every vocal part. It wasn&#8217;t exactly a runaway hit in its day, and the vinyl now is a fabulous rarity. Here&#8217;s the reverb-drenched &#8220;Fire (Luke 12:49)&#8221; from the album:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/32614483&amp;color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Far more listenable than anything the <a href=\"http:\/\/media.musicasacra.com\/publications\/sacredmusic\/133\/3\/3_2.html\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Jesuits<\/a> and their ilk ever produced (faint praise, yes). You can listen to two more tracks <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wfmu.org\/freeform\/2010\/03\/two-australian-nuns-turn-on-drum-machine-and-ignite-the-spirit.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, but apparently that&#8217;s all there is of the album that&#8217;s online.<\/p>\n<p>Sister O&#8217;Connor is still around and making music. There&#8217;s an interview with her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/local\/stories\/2012\/09\/05\/3583425.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and she has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Angelic-Music\/146384472066978\" target=\"_blank\">facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I came across this morning: Christian &#8220;popular&#8221; music that isn&#8217;t embarrassing. ((Although there are many good musicians who are seriously religious, the only one marketed as a &#8220;Christian&#8221; performer whom I enjoy listening to is Phil Keaggy, a superb guitarist and pretty good singer and songwriter.)) In 1976, Sister Irene O&#8217;Connor, a Franciscan nun &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/the-other-singing-nun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The other singing nun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[669,519],"class_list":["post-10980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholicism","category-music","tag-music","tag-sister-irene-oconnor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-2R6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}