SONG.REVIEWSReleased January 1, 1954
George Beverly Shea introduced Thomas Chisholm's 1923 hymn to Billy Graham crusade audiences in the 1950s, turning a relatively obscure text into a standard through sheer repetition in front of the largest live audiences gospel music has ever had.
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Carrie Underwood and CeCe Winans' 2021 duet won Underwood her eighth Grammy -- Best Roots Gospel Album for My Savior -- by trading the hymn's original crusade-hall plainness for a full country-gospel arrangement built for two distinct, powerful voices.
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Shane & Shane's 2014 recording strips the hymn back down to acoustic guitars and two close-harmony voices, aimed less at a concert audience than at the congregations who'd actually sing it the following Sunday.
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