Third Man Records artist Natalie Bergman joins host John J. Thompson to talk about her stirring, vulnerable, and exceptionally cool new album, Mercy, and the heartbreaking tragedy that inspired it. Bergman, who until recently was best known as one half of the alt-pop band Wild Belle, has crafted a collection of songs that has more in common with the Jesus Music of a half-century ago than anything released since. With that inspiration, we have loaded up the Jukebox with long-lost Jesus Music obscurities and will get a first-person account of what those days were like from our own producer, Bruce A. Brown.

Fifty years ago a generation of young people was reeling with confusion and pain as the American Dream unraveled at the seams. Millions turned to a counter-cultural understanding of the rebel Jesus and found comfort, peace, and community in his words and story. Bergman, who is navigating a devastating loss of her own, reminds us of a time before Christian music became a subculture or industry, and offers a new way for us to understand the potential of Gospel music.

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Music List

Featuring Natalie Bergman, from her album, Mercy: “Home at Last,” “Talk to the Lord,” “I’m Going Home,” “He Will Lift You Up Higher,” “Your Love is My Shelter,” “I Will Praise You,” “Shine Your Light on Me”

Historical reference excerpts:

Johnny Cash – “It Was Jesus”

Larry Norman – “I Wish We’d All Been Ready” (instrumental strings version)

Under New Management – “Forget Your Hexagram”

The Four Corner Gospel Experience – “Jesus Rocks”

Bob Desper – “The World Is Crying for Love”

Godspell movie soundtrack – “Day By Day”

The Seekers (of St. Louis) – “Get Together”

Randy Stonehill – “Norman’s Kitchen,” “I Love You”

Maranatha (of New Milford, NJ) – “Deeper than the Mighty Rolling Sea”

The Click Kids – “We’re Happy Christians”

Sister Ada Allen – “Thinking Seriously”

Agape – “Happy”

Isabel Baker – “This Ole World’s a Big Let Down”

California Earthquake – “Let There Be Light”

Charisma – “Last Days”

Heirship – “Praise Be to Our God”

Peter Jansson’s Gruppe – “Jerusalem, Urbild unsrer Stadt”

Earthen Vessel – “You Can”

Out of Darkness – “Walk on the Water”

From The Everlasting’ Livin’ Jesus Music Concert [Maranatha! One]:

Love Song – “Little Country Church”

The Way – “If You Will Believe”

Blessed Hope – “Something More”

From Jesus Sound Explosion – Recorded “Live” at Explo ’72:

Love Song – “A Love Song”

Armageddon Experience – “One Way”

Larry Norman – “Sweet Song of Salvation”

Johnny Cash – “I See Men as Trees Walking”

Andraé Crouch and the Disciples – “Satisfied”

Additional Music (under license from Soundstripe):

Dressers – “Freedom From”

Alice in Winter – “Endgame”

Matt Winston – “Sky Runner”

Electric Organic – “Safari Nights”

Cloud Wave – “A New Horizon.” “Boys Ride Beats”

Cast of Characters – “Barry’s Delight”

Lincoln David – “Skeptical”

Ian Kelosky – “Side Step”

Caleb Etheridge – “Dreamers on the Run”

“Full Circle” (True Tunes Podcast Theme) and “Noah’s Shuffle” by permission of Phil Keaggy