Song of the Week: Ruthie Foster's "Joy"

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A perfect way to spend a Saturday: gathered with thousands of people for a free concert at Auditorium Shores on a cool clear evening with the city skyline in the background. "The Road to Austin" was three hours of tightly-coordinated music--and collaborative efforts--from Bonnie Raitt, Kris Kristofferson, Eric Johnson, Bob Schneider, Malford Milligan, Carolyn Wonderland, Ruthie Foster, Stephen Bruton, and a bunch of others.

Please, oh, please somebody tell me we'll soon be able to have a recording of Carolyn Wonderland singing the Blind Willie Johnson song, "It's Nobody's Fault But Mine" and Malford Milligan singing the Stephen Bruton song, "Bigger Wheel.

Austin's Ruthie Foster did a great job with her hit, "Heal Yourself," and with "Up Above My Head."

For this week's Song of the Week, though, I'm going back to her 2002 release, Runaway Soul (iTunes; Amazon). Here's "Joy"--

There's joy over there
There's joy over there
There's joy over there
There's joy on the other side

There's peace over there
There's peace over there
There's peace over there
There's joy on the other side

I got joy in the evening
Joy at night
Joy in the morning
There's joy on the other side

Gonna say hello to my mother
Say hello to my mother
Say hello to my mother
'Cause there's joy on the other side

No more crying there
No more crying there
No more crying there
Because there's joy on the other side

I got joy in the evening
Joy at night
Joy in the morning
There's joy on the other side

(Interlude)

I got joy in the evening
Joy at night
Joy in the morning
There's joy on the other side

Nothing but joy
Nothing but joy
Nothing but joy
I'm gonna shout
I'm gonna run
I'm gonna fill on up til I'm done
I'm gonna weep
no more
I'm gonna hide
no more

Tell everybody I got good news--
The Son and the Father and the Holy Ghost, too
Jump and shout
Kneel and pray
Soul, get happy, I'm gonna stay all day

I got joy in the evening
Joy at night
Joy in the morning
There's joy on the other side

I'm gonna shout
I'm gonna run
I'm gonna stand up til I'm done
I'm gonna weep
no more
I'm gonna hide
no more

I got joy . . .

(Photo by Steve Hopson)