Soul on Fire, by Joe Roberts

Soul on Fire

by Joe Roberts

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Download includes two bonus tracks performed by Deborah Adedokun and Joe Buck Roberts:

*"Pocketful of Silver" - Live Papa Jazz Session, 2015. Used with kind permission of Scene SC.

*"This World is Not My Home" - From the film THE THETA GIRL, directed by Christopher Bickel. Recorded by Jay Matheson at Jam Room Studios, 2017.

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1.	He Come on Down from Heaven 03:36	buy track
2.	Hell Bound Train 02:30	buy track
3.	Set My Soul on Fire 04:07
4.	There is a Light 04:18	buy track
5.	Pocketful of Silver 03:02	buy track
6.	Too Late to Mend Your Sinful Ways 03:44	buy track
7.	This World is Not My Home 05:25

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This is an unfinished album. An abandoned project. The original intent was to create music about God that wasn't wimpy, soulless, maudlin crap. A lot of religious music has lost any sense of soul or passion. "Praise and worship" music is so incredibly boring. So this is my attempt at making a raucous, joyful noise with a healthy dose of hellfire and brimstone... even if I am a backsliding heathen.

MUSIC ABOUT GOD DOES NOT HAVE TO SUCK!

This is as far as the project got, and some of the vocal takes are scratch tracks that were never re-recorded. What remains are the unmastered mixdowns, warts and all. Several of these tracks were included in the film THE THETA GIRL, directed by Christopher Bickel.

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released January 1, 2009

All songs written and performed by Joe Buck Roberts.

Cover photo: Scotty Tempo

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Joe Buck Roberts Columbia, South Carolina

Creator of sporadic recordings of American music, hitherto released in careless ways. This site is an attempt to archive some of the songs/albums I have written. See also: Ass/Bastard and Debbie and the Skanks.

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