With its sobering lyrics and a droning country-blues riff, “Holy Ghost Power” by The Hillbilly Thomists is a song with zero chance at Christian radio success.
The jilted protagonist has been “living off of grits, whiskey and Moon Pies.” His man cave offers no refuge: “A hundred channels of nothing on the TV at 10. It’s like Diet Coke and original sin. … Now it’s a zombie town, there’s a lot of undead. They wander around looking underfed.”
But the chorus offers hope: “He makes a rich man poor; He makes a weak man strong. No more going wrong just to get along. I felt the force of the truth when they pierced His side. I saw the war eagle dive and I could not hide.”
It wouldn’t shock old-school country fans if this was a…
