When I hear the word “Revival,” I think of the literal camps that dotted North Georgia when I was young. They were semi permanent buildings, sheds of wood or corrugated steel, which in the summer season sprang into revival meetings — summer while the crops grew between planting and harvest, and it was too hot in Georgia to do anything but pray anyway.
Those were Protestant, but this band has taken a name that suggests at least a strong tie to the Catholic tradition. The endorsement of bourbon as part of the solution is more comfortable for Catholics than it is for Baptists anyway.
The Hillbilly Thomists are all Dominican friars-- so yes, a connection to the Catholic Church indeed!
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Ah! That does make sense of the choice of names.
ReplyDeleteBourbon, bluegrass, and the Bible -- not a bad motto.
ReplyDeleteI gave my brother one of their tee shirts to wear to work on casual day. It shows St. Thomas Aquinas with a banjo. His coworkers were rather confused.
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Good Lord. Kicking myself that I hadn't thought to post them here before this- I'd heard of them probably a good year ago. They're perfect here.
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