For years she toured the Bible Belt in a Ford, haranguing the morons nightly under canvas. Her second seems to have left her nearly as quickly, though under his own steam: her souvenir was another infant. Her first husband was a missionary to China, and died miserably out there, leaving her with a small baby and no funds. South then dominated by fundamentalist Christians is from 1926 likely coined by H.L.

Bible belt in reference to the swath of the U.S. Bible-thumper 'strict Christian' is from 1870. Bible replaced Old English biblioðece (see bibliothec) as the ordinary word for 'the Scriptures.' Figurative sense of 'any authoritative book' is from 1804. The Christian scripture was referred to in Greek as Ta Biblia as early as c. Room 41, named for the space at Dallas, Texas’s famed Belmont Hotel where Cauthen frequently stays, is the follow-up to 2016’s full-length My Gospel and the 2018 EP Have Mercy.'the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments,' early 14c., from Anglo-Latin biblia, Old French bible (13c.) 'the Bible,' also any large book generally, from Medieval and Late Latin biblia 'the Bible' (neuter plural interpreted as feminine singular), from phrase biblia sacra 'holy books,' a translation of Greek ta biblia to hagia 'the holy books.' The Latin word is from the Greek one, biblion 'paper, scroll,' also the ordinary word for 'a book as a division of a larger work ' see biblio. The groove-based arrangement of “Holy Ghost Fire” fits in nicely with the humid, debauched first release from Room 41, “ Cocaine Country Dancing,” which came out in June. The spacious, blues-funk groove adds to that overall feeling of sexual tension, with Cauthen purring about being “an honest man, dying to get you in the palm of my hand/Working the long-con plan.” It’s not quite clear if the preacher’s desires get the better of him in the video, but it definitely becomes clear that he’s going nowhere with the woman who catches his eye in the opening scenes. Cauthen, meanwhile, is decked out in a red hat and black duster, zealously witnessing to the ladies at the brothel while seemingly being consumed by his fleshly desires.

The clip begins with a gravelly sermon about the struggle against forces of darkness, which turns out to be spoken by the barkeep in an old-timey brothel. The Texas native’s second album, Room 41 will be released September 6th. Paul Cauthen makes a pretty convincing fire-and-brimstone preacher in the dark new video for “Holy Ghost Fire,” a track from his upcoming album Room 41.

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