From Sir Shambling's Souful Christmas
Gospel singer and preacher Reverend Oris Mays had a long and fruitful career stretching across several decades. This recitation evidently dates from the late 1960s and had a very personal twist to it. As we understand it, Rev Mays lost his son in Vietnam. [Is anyone able to confirm this?] Whatever the veracity of this, “Another Christmas Without My Son” is a very personal expression of grief, perhaps one of the most emotive of all of the records that sprang from the “war” genre.
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