Since hearing them last year on Pandora Radio, I have been a big fan of the largely invisible musical quintet “Ollabelle.” Here’s their Wikipedia page, which has about as much info as I’ve found anywhere. The notable member, perhaps, is Amy Helm, daughter of The Band drummer Levon Helm, though I’m not really a music junkie, so Glenn Patscha, Byron Isaac, Fiona McBain, or even Tony Leone may be somehow more important. Anyway, what is it with these people? There’s nothing overtly Evangelical, and certainly nothing Catholic, about their story, but tell me they aren’t “religious”!Sorry in advance for the poor video quality, but these people have been flying under the radar—
What could be more Lenten than a song called “Get Back Temptation”?
Do you have “Jesus on the Main Line”? Ollabelle does.
Listen to this cover of Bruce Cockburn’s “Soul of a Man” (with a momentary change of scene) and tell me these people don’t know something about the Holy Spirit.
And how about my favorite Ollabelle tune, “Down by the Riverside,” one of the great Negro Spirituals?
Let’s finish with a “band of angels” in “Gone Today,” taking Ollabelle to heaven, where I say they belong.
