Some artists create deep reservoirs of good work we can return to again and again. Fernando Ortega is such an artist. By keeping his arrangements simple, he avoids rooting them in a specific decade.
Jesus Paid It All- Fernando Ortega
According to a story on Christianity.com, Elvira Hall wrote the words to this song in the fly leaf of her hymnal while sitting in the choir loft of Monument Street Methodist Church in Baltimore on a Sunday morning In 1865. She showed them to her pastor, who realized they would work well with a tune that the church organist, John Grape, had recently created. Hall and Grape finished the song together, sent it off to a publisher, and it has been a congregational favorite in many churches ever since.
If you enjoy a country sound, here it is by Joey and Rory. Joey was featured here a few days ago singing “Softly and Tenderly.”
Jesus Paid It All - Joey and Rory
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