
The best-known version of the gossong Give Myself Away," by Pastor William McDowell, is an opulent display of religious praise. For more than nine minutes, backed by swelling instrumentation and a full choir, McDowell sings of surrendering himself in lines such as "Lord, my life is in your hands." A stripped-down but equally powerful version of the song opens the new album "Some Mississippi Sunday Morning," which was recorded inside the Mississippi State Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison also known as Parchman Farm. Around three minutes long, with piano as the lone accompaniment, the song begins with a single vocalist repeating the line "I give myself away/ so you can use me." Midway through, another singer joins in, and then another; the language doesn't change, but the vocals accumulate, stunning and imperfect. If you feel uncertain about the existence of God-and therefore about the meaning of words of surrender echoing through the halls of a place like Parchman-you may find the performance only heartbreaking.
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