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The direction Charlie was taking was one a preacher, given sufficient time for reflection, might be able to indeed testify to being spiritually significant. His long periods of introspection, worked out through music and a growing command of poetic verse, spoke of a young man that communed with Godly thoughts and heartfelt emotion. This was the stuff of dreamers and poets and artists. Still, Charlie would carry guilt his whole life for not being the kind of Christian his parents expected him to become. |
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Charlie’s tender, seemingly fragile spirituality brands his rock and blues as indelibly as it permeates his country and jazz. It’s in the swoon of his voice and in his touch of the keys. It’s certainly in the words he chose to offer up in song. If the subtle spirituality is lost in originals like "No Home, " "Peace On You," and "Anywhere You Are," there is no way to misinterpret the overt significance of "Feel Like Going Home," which ironically is the final cut on his final album. Nowhere, however, was it more in evidence than on his great Epic album of 1976, Silver Linings. One suspects that this is an album Charlie had wanted to record for many a year, for, as its name suggests, it’s a beautifully delivered collection of religious standards, the kind his mother probably taught him to play all those years ago. |
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