Flop Eared Mule A Country Music Death Beast and Worker in the Dylan Industrial Complex | Sydney, Australia | Est. 2004

So I discovered that searching YouTube for "indian bottom" turns up a whole lot of ... things. What I was really looking for was something with the Indian Bottom Association of the Old Regular Baptist church whose odd, haunting, awesome, creepy, mermerising acapella "lined-out hymnody" I have lately discovered. This snippet is pretty much all I could come up with:

I heard them first on the Smithsonian Folkways comp I got last month, and further explored with the full CDs. I was somewhat ... er, surprised to learn these were not field recordings from 1948 but specially arranged sessions from 1997. As ever I can only commend the downloadable liner notes of both volumes at the SF website which include extensive detail about the church and music.

Bonus Equal Time! Also listening to: Atheist hip-hop.