
It Is Well with My Soul
Mahalia Jackson's 1968 recording treats Horatio Spafford's grief-forged hymn with the same restraint Spafford's own words ask for -- and lets the power stay in reserve until the very end.
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SONG.REVIEWSReleased January 1, 1968

Mahalia Jackson's 1968 recording treats Horatio Spafford's grief-forged hymn with the same restraint Spafford's own words ask for -- and lets the power stay in reserve until the very end.
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Alan Jackson's Precious Memories take is a country singer getting out of a hymn's way -- plain, unhurried, and recorded for a funeral before it was recorded for an album.
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Bethel Music and Kristene DiMarco's 'It Is Well' keeps Spafford and Bliss's refrain and builds an entirely new set of verses around it -- a platinum-certified reinterpretation, not a straight cover.
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