Cotton Patch Gospel
SRP $14.95 UPC 9780740312922
110 min / Dove Family Approved

“A Fabulous Musical!”  -NBC

Highly acclaimed by critics and the public alike, this award-winning drama is a leg-slappin’, toe-tappin’, hand-clapin’ hoe-down of a story that retells the Gospels of Matthew and John in the musical style of the present day South. In Cotton Patch Gospel, the far away places of Nazareth, Jerusalem, and Bethlehem are brought closer to the cities of Atlanta and Valdosta, Georgia.

From His birth in a Gainesville, Georgia trailer to His Good Friday lynching and Easter Sunday victory, the story of Mary Davidson’s son, Jesus, is presented musically with zest and uninhibited joy. The music that brings this story to life was written by the late Harry Chapin, founder of World Hunger Year and composer of such well known hits as “Cat’s in the Cradle” and “Taxi.” Chapin considered himself “born to write the music for Cotton Patch Gospel.” In his own words, “Cotton Patch Gospel is special. It is a rare dramatic presentation that succeeds in both entertaining us and sharing fresh insight into the Gospel, the greatest story every told.”