White Lord Jesus

I didn't catch White Lord Jesus the first time they were around. 24 years after their debut "Amen", I found "..into that good night" at the library. As with most of the music I listen to, it's hard to place them in one genre, but it is some rock, some prog, some pop, some metal and so on. Check out some examples on MySpace (where they say "alternative/electronic"!). The CD is divided into two parts, based on a Dylan Thomas poem, and we get "Do not go gentle..." and "..into that good night". In the last part White Lord Jesus cover Suicide ("Frankie Tardrop") and Bob Dylan ("The Ballad of Hollis Brown").
The real reason I picked this album, was these guest artists (mentioned in this blog several times): Maja Ratkje, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Nils Økland (plays Hardanger fiddle, and is mentioned more often in Wyatting) and Arve Henriksen! Lots of good people. Lots of good music.

Do not go gentle into that good night

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas