RARE GOSPEL

Song: A Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Song by: Cliff Gober

Podcast Vocal by: Gail Nobles
Keyboardist: Gail Nobles
Cover collage design by: Gail Nobles

Hi! I’m Gail Nobles, and you’re listening to Rare Gospel from the Bottom of the Barrel. Searching way down deep for those gospel tunes. A Poor Wayfaring stranger is a 1976 song by a gospel artist named Cliff Gober. You can hear horns, drums, & strings in his song. When you dig up a song like this one, you might not understand what they mean by Gospel-Funk. Maybe they call it that because of the sound of music. I hear the gospel, but I don’t hear funk. I hear a strong gospel message in Cliff’s song, and that’s what is important.

I also hear deep soul when I play the song. You can hear Cliff’s song on Spotify. Cliff’s song is found on the record label Calvary Records.

A poor wayfaring stranger is a stranger traveling.The song reminds me of the scriptures and what the Bible said in Hebrews11:13 about those that died in faith and how they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Christian songwriters refer to the idea that this life, and this earth is not our real home. That we are strangers on the earth just traveling through. The real home is heaven with the Lord. You can hear the same message in Cliff Gober’s song that goes something like this. ..

(Singing)