This is what we want! Crazy, Jeebus-freaked Arthur Blessitt. Found this in the suburbs of Sheffield, which seems as far away from the Sunset Strip as California is from Peckham. This album is two full sides of Arthur preaching; giving testimony and having a bit-o-a-laugh. This is on a loop at the moment on iTunes as I'm sampling bits left, right and centre. If you like a bit of Holy Joe meets GI Joe then Arthurs your man.
When the Lord called him to preach, the then fifteen-year-old Arthur Blessitt hollered back, "I don't want to be some miserable-faced, sour, big old, puffy-cheeked, persimmon-looking', big, pot-belied, punchy bag o' bones! Lord, I Wanta' live!" But he found out how to be a preacher and still enjoy life. As a boy of seven, Blessitt got it all together with Jesus one night in a parking lot! (WHAT!). Now as a grown man who preaches the love of God to anyone who will listen and many who won't he says, "I'm naturally stoned, and Jesus puts it together forever."
I've listened stoned and it rocks.
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