On Two Wings and a Prayer: The Electric Guitar Gospel According to Reverend Utah Smith
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Reverend Utah Smith was an evangelist preacher based in New Orleans who from 1938 onwards added some electric guitar fire to his sermons as well a pair of two giant seraphim white wings to his back.
In this epsiode Donal listens to the incendiary records he released between 1944 and 1953 which puts him very close to the scene of the big bang birth of rock and roll..
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