{"id":2189,"date":"2008-08-19T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/08\/david-byrne-talks-godhead.html"},"modified":"2008-08-19T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T12:10:42","slug":"david-byrne-talks-godhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/08\/david-byrne-talks-godhead.html","title":{"rendered":"David Byrne Talks Godhead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"davidbyrnepicforic.jpg\"<\/span>You don’t think of former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne as an evangelist, except for those crazy Brazilian, African and Afro-Caribbean beats that practically broke poor drummer Chris Frantz’s wrists and led Byrne off to a solo career of promoting world music. If Byrne and his bandmates were attracted to Christian music and artwork (as in the cover art by Christian outsider artist Howard Finster<\/a> for their 1986 album “Little Creatures”), it was part of their passion for Americana. A Gideon’s Bible was as interesting as a little-league ball field or an empty highway.<\/p>\n


\nSo it’s surprising to hear, in an article <\/a>by The New York Times’ Jon Pareles on Sunday, that Bryne and his bandmates turned British avant-garde rocker Brian Eno on to gospel music. More surprising is that behind the “folk-gospel sound” of Byrne’s new album, his second collaboration with Eno, is a bit of Bryne’s spiritual self. Though a sense of faith is hinted at in later T-Heads albums, I’ve never heard Byrne explicitly address religion or utter a spiritual thought.
\nAsked about spirituality in his music, Bryne told Pareles, “I’m always thinking about it, but not overtly. That might frighten me. Probably like a lot of people, I feel alienated from the traditional models that were presented to me as a child and eventually I left those and said ‘That doesn’t seem relevant to me.’ But like a lot of people, I have some longing for transcending those things in some way shape or form.”
\nOkay, so his take is pretty standard Boomer religious-not-spiritual. But for fans, it’s new ground all the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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