Formerly Heathen? (Unmeaning Flattery)

Wednesday 03/30/2005 3:31 PM

The headstone reads:

A. YANT
BORN
OCT 12, 1874
CONVERTED
MAY 1894
DIED
DEC 12, 1935

Not much of a mystery, but still pretty surprising. Sure, we're talking about conversion to Christianity, but conversion from what?

A quick turn on Google, yields an interesting result. Yant appears to be Celtic in origin.

So again, what spiritual persuasion was A. Yant originally? With this being the deep South, I can't help wonder if we're talking about conversion from one form of Christianity to another, say Catholic to Baptist.

Any thoughts from you, my dear friends and readers?

Jolie Holland "Escondida"

Just discovered this today (03/26/2005) on NPR. Has an old timey radio style/feel. In his Amazon review, Charles Macnaughton described Jolie Holland as sounding like Patsy Cline inpersonating Billie Holliday covering a Tom Waits song. Have high hopes. My verdict isn't as amicable. While Escondida is pleasant to listen to, it is instantly forgettable. After almost a month of listening to it, I have yet to find myself humming a single tune from it to myself. Not a good sign. This album will soon fade from my listening stack and years from now, someone will ask about it and I'll say, "It's OK mellow music with an old time radio feel, but there's nothing special about it." Mediocrity sucks.

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