Where the Soul of Man Never Dies - In the Style of Tony Rice & Ricky Skaggs

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The song of the week is "Where the Soul of Man Never dies". Vig Thank to Cedermark Music https://youtube.com/@cedermarkmusic?si=F17FdxKJVhHI-xOm for helping me With the harmony.

About the song:
A song which describes the blessings of heaven where there will be no more death, sorrow, or crying is “Where the Soul Never Dies” (245 in Hymns for Worship Revised, 432 in Sacred Selections for the Church). The text was written and the tune (Golden or Never Die) was composed both by William Matthew Golden, who was born on Jan. 28, 1878, in Webster Co., MS, to James and Camella Hood Golding. The family surname was changed later. Little accurate information is available on him, except that, according to George Pullen Jackson, he was from and lived in Mississippi. Golden married Sarah Frances Dear of Rankin Co., MS, and their only child reportedly died young. Sometimes he is confused with William Lee Golden of the Oak Ridge Boys, but they are not the same person.

The exact date and circumstances surrounding the writing of the song are unknown. It is said that he produced most of his songs while serving an eight-year sentence in a state penitentiary, though there seems to be no record as to which penitentiary and why he was there. Golden copyrighted it in 1914, and it appeared as early as 1915 in Calvary Hymns edited and published by R. H. Cornelius of Ft. Worth, TX. It was also found in the 1922 Songs of the Coming King: The Message Due The World, compiled in Ft. Smith, AR, by Robert E. Winsett (1876-1952). In addition, Golden wrote, “A Beautiful Life” (1918). Furthermore, one website (www.hymnary.org/person/Golden_WM) credits Golden with some twenty additional songs. The 1930 census listed him as an author of music living at Mathiston in Choctaw Co, MS. He died on May 13, 1934, in a traffic accident near Eupora, MS, and his body was buried at Spring Valley Cemetery South in Webster County, MS. The copyright of “Where the Soul Never Dies” was renewed in 1942 by Winsett. It was later owned by the editor and publisher of Sacred Selections for the Church, Ellis J. Crum (1928-2011).

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