Drawing inspiration from diverse sources such as Sydney Carter, Joe Bash, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, film director Pasolini, Martin Luther King and of course Scripture, William Flanders began writing his own folk hymns in 1967. Love Is A Verb features fourteen of those songs, recorded along with second guitarist Dave Parker. Flanders has a very rich expressive vibrato that takes a little getting used to, but the acoustic guitar work is good, the melodies are authentic, and the lyrics are intelligent and witty. A very simple austere recording with titles like 'Blood, Flow Down', "-ell That Child To Go Home', 'Hypocrite Road', 'Song Of Epiphany', 'Moses Is Dead', 'To Worship You', 'I'm Buming Up', and 'It's So Nice Here In The Pew'. He looks sorta like Woody Harrelson with a goatee. (Ken Scott – The Archivist).
Tracks:
01. Blood Flow Down
02. Tell That Child To Go Home
03. Hypocrite Road
04. Song Of Epiphany
05. Moses Is Dead
06. Forty Nights And Days
07. Love Is A Verb
08. To Worship You
09. John The Baptist
10. I'm Burning Up
11. So It's Christmas Time Again
12. It's So Nice Here In The Pew
13. Blind Samson
14. I Was Born To Be Me
See William Flanders Web site.
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