The little boy looked up at me and said, "Jimmy Swaggart, when are you going to play that piano?" It was an interesting question and I had to smile.
And the letters have kept coming in. There´s not enough piano on the albums. When are you going to play some old-fashion, Holy Ghost, camp meeting style, up-tempo music? We want to hear it. Over and over again, crusade after crusade, letter after letter, request afte request - almost demand.
Well, here it is. There are four red-hot, old fashioned, down home, Holy Spirit, hand clapping, shouting glory, camp meeting songs; four that will make you sit on the edge of your chair, I think; four that wil make you even stand to your feet. And some of you may even want to start shouting.
And the piano...
I think I´m playing it like I´ve never play it before. It was like going back to the fifties and the sixties. The rolling left hand, the flying right hand, a blur, a crashing of white and blacks, seeming like it´s impossible to do; but somehow the Lord has helped us to do it, and I believe I´m playing better than ever.
You´re going to like it.
The slow songs...
Straight out of worship, straight out of glory.
They´ll touch your heart; they´ll take you to haven. You´ll sense the Spirt. That Why it´s called "Sweet Anointing."
I told our producer, Joe Huffman, to get me the best drummer that we´ve ever had. And whenever we assembled together at Creative. Workshop in Nashville, not only was the drummer ready but the pickers and backup singers were ready as well.
It moved - and how it moved.
The session started off:
There´s been a lot of people talking ´bout me
Since I´ve walked this narrow way,
This is just another little valley,
I came throught it when I prayed.
You could feel it all through the studio. It was music - music that brought America alive in the fifties and the sixties; music the world tried to copy; music that Memphis, Nashville, Detroit, Los Angeles, and New York tried to emulated. They did their best but they were not quite able.
Simply because...
...God is the originator of music. And the rhythm, and the joy, and the power, and the glory that made Miriam lead that great camp meeting on the shores of the Red Sea nearly four thousand years ago was prevalent in that studio that afternoon.
Well, why talk any more about it?
Let´s hear it.
"Sweet Anointing."

Jimmy Swaggart
(Signed).....