About This Song
About "Glorly Glory When I Lay My Burden Down" by Jospeh Spence
Joseph Spence's gravelly voice and percussive guitar turn a spiritual into a celebration of release. The burden falls away not with solemnity but with rhythmic joy, each strum a small liberation. Recorded raw, it captures the Bahamas meeting the American folk revival, a buoyant tension between suffering and deliverance.