The Old Rugged Cross

The Old Rugged Cross is a song that was written in Albion, and it is about Good Friday.
It is a very popular song and has been performed and recorded all over the world.

Here we will share a few renditions of this beautiful and poignant hymn.

The historical marker shown above is on Michigan Avenue, near College Court, kitty corner from eastern most the welcome to Albion College sign.

Alan Jackson sings a country version of the Old Rugged Cross

Brad Douglas Paisley (born October 28, 1972) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting with his 1999 debut album Who Needs Pictures, he has released eleven studio albums and a Christmas compilation on the Arista Nashville label, with all of his albums certified Gold or higher by the RIAA.^[1] He has scored 32 Top 10 singles on the US Billboard Country Airplay chart, 19 of which have reached number 1. He set a new record in 2009 for the most consecutive singles (10) reaching the top spot on that chart.

Guy Allen Penrod (born July 2, 1963) is a gospel music singer. He is known for his work as the lead singer of the Gaither Vocal Band, a position he held from 1994 to 2008.

Alabama is an American country and Southern rock band formed in Fort Payne, Alabama, in 1969. The band was founded by Randy Owen (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and his cousin Teddy Gentry (bass, backing vocals). They were soon joined by their other cousin, Jeff Cook (lead guitar, fiddle, and keyboards).

Singer and songwriter Johnny Cash was born J. R. Cash on February 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Arkansas. … However, after just three lessons his teacher, enthralled with Cash’s already unique singing style, told him to stop taking lessons and to never deviate from his natural voice.

June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter; June 23, 1929 – May 15, 2003) was a five-time Grammy award-winning American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, comedian, and author who was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash.

Elvis Aaron Presley was born to Vernon and Gladys Presley in a two-room house in Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935. … In 1954, Elvis began his singing career with the legendary Sun Records label in Memphis. In late 1955, his recording contract was sold to RCA Victor. By 1956, he was an international sensation.

Kenova, West Virginia, U.S. Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. Michael Whitaker Smith (born October 7, 1957) is an American musician, who has charted in both contemporary Christian and mainstream charts. His biggest success in mainstream music was in 1991 when “Place in This World” hit No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100. Over the course of his career, he has sold more than 18 million albums.

The Old Rugged Cross (Original 1913 Rhythms) – A Cappella Hymn

Try singing along to this one Karaoke style

Joey + Rory was an American country and bluegrass duo composed of singer-songwriters Rory Lee Feek (born April 25, 1965) and Joey Feek (September 9, 1975 – March 4, 2016), who were husband and wife. Both members of the duo were vocalists and songwriters, with Rory also playing acoustic guitar. Rory Lee Feek had written singles for other artists prior to the duo’s foundation. The duo was the third-place finalist on CMT‘s competition Can You Duet in 2008. The duo recorded eight studio albums for Vanguard Records and Gaither Music Group and charted three singles on Hot Country Songs.

Bishop Marvin Louis Sapp (born January 28, 1967) is an American Gospel music singer-songwriter who recorded with the group Commissioned during the 1990s before beginning a record-breaking solo career. Sapp is also the founder and senior pastor of Lighthouse Full Life Center Church, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Of all the stories I have written for this spot in the past four years, this may be one of the most amazing. I strongly recommend that you first click on this link and listen to this quartet before continuing. In fact, this will open a new page, and you may continue to read while you listen.

Beautiful, isn’t it? But you’ve heard beautiful quartets before. Possibly not many like this, however…no, those aren’t identical quadruplets. That’s one man.

His name is Kaoma Chende, and he told me, “I have always loved harmony. I have never had music lessons, but I have always had an ear, and can arrange songs and rearrange.”

Chende was born in Zambia, the fourth of six children of a now-retired Seventh-day Adventist pastor. He has always loved music. He remembers lying on the floor under the living room table on Friday nights as a small boy, listening to the Kings Heralds on the phonograph. (And if that wasn’t a musical education, what is?)

Selah was originally formed by brother and sister, Todd and Nicol Smith (now Nicol Sponberg), along with friend Allan Hall. The group quickly gained success with the release of their first album, Be Still My Soul, in 1999. … Selah went on to win a Dove Award for their debut album.

Rhonda Lea Vincent (born July 13, 1962) is an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

Vincent’s musical career began when she was a child in her family’s band The Sally Mountain Show, and has spanned more than four decades. Vincent first achieved success in the bluegrass genre in the 1970s and ’80s, earning the respect of her mostly male peers for her mastery of the progressive chord structures and multi-range, fast-paced vocals intrinsic to bluegrass music.

Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991), known professionally as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American singer and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western, pop, and gospel musical genres.

Jessica Clemmons performs The Old Rugged Cross (George Bennard) with Jess and the Bandits for BBC Songs of Praise.

Jessica Clemmons (born July 16, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter from Houston, Texas, United States. She is the lead singer of country rock band Jess and the Bandits.

Craig Wayne Boyd (born December 31, 1978) is an American country singer and songwriter. A native of Dallas, Texas, Boyd is based out of and resides in Nashville, Tennessee. He is best known for winning Season 7 of NBC’s reality TV singing competition The Voice as a part of Blake Shelton’s team.

Born Loretta Webb on April 14, 1932, in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, Lynn grew up in a small cabin in a poor Appalachian coal-mining community. The second of eight children, Lynn began singing in church at a young age.

Fountainview Academy is parochial boarding secondary school, located 17 miles south of Lillooet, British Columbia, Canada. It enrolls approximately 85 students in grades 10-12, primarily from the United States of America and Canada, but students also come from other countries, such as Korea, Germany, and Iceland.

Bradley Walker is a native of Athens, Alabama. He was born with muscular dystrophy, and has been in a wheelchair all his life. He was a student at East Limestone High School where he played percussion in the school band.^[1]

Walker started singing when he was two or three years old, and began performing in public when he was four.^[2] When he was ten, he was invited on stage to perform with The Oak Ridge Boys, and when he was eleven, he sang with The Oak Ridge Boys on The Nashville Network‘s Nashville Now as well as on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon.^[3]

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. Sandra Faye “Sandi” Patty (born July 12, 1956) is an American Christian music singer, known for her wide soprano vocal range and expressive flexibility, which has led music critics to dub her “The Voice”.

Albert Leornes Greene^[1] (born April 13, 1946), often known as The Reverend Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter and record producer; he best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including “Take Me to the River“, “Tired of Being Alone“, “I’m Still in Love with You“, “Love and Happiness“, and his signature song, “Let’s Stay Together“.^[2] After an incident in which his girlfriend committed suicide, Green became an ordained pastor and turned to gospel music. He later returned to secular music

Beginner lesson – In this tutorial, I’ll be teaching you how to play the old hymn, “The Old Rugged Cross”. If you’d like to leave me a song suggestion, just put it in the comments down below.

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Let’s generate some home videos of Old Rugged Cross to remember the Good Friday we had to stay home. Anyone from Albion interested in doing this?