TY - ADVS AU - Moyers,Bill D. AU - Mannes,Elena AU - Marino,Donna AU - Moyers,Judith Davidson TI - Amazing grace: with Bill Moyers SN - 9781598285642 AV - BV317.A185.A439 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Silver Spring, Maryland PB - Athena KW - Seeger, Pete, KW - Amazing grace (Hymn) KW - Hymns, English KW - History and criticism KW - Gospel music KW - Shape-note singing KW - Folk singers KW - United States KW - Interviews N1 - Originally aired on PBS in 1990; Includes the documentary Pure Pete Seeger, originally broadcast in 1994 as a segment of the television program Bill Moyers' journal, in which Moyers interviews and provides a musical portrait of 75 year old folk singer and activist Pete Seeger; 12-page viewer's guide with articles on the inspiration for the program, the song's lyrics, shape-note singing, and facts about the song inserted in container; Amazing grace (80:00) --; Special features. Pure Pete Seeger (54:00) --; Bill Moyers biography --; Performer biographies; Produced and directed by Elena Mannes ; editor, Donna Marino ; principal sound, Peter Miller ; photography, Gary Steele, Greg Andracke ; executive producers, Judith Davidson Moyers, Bill Moyers; Northern Mariana IslandsAA rating: Not rated; 2 N2 - Bill Moyers tells the story of this song, one of the most popular pieces of music in the English language, through the people who have sung it. He also tells the story of John Newton, once the captain of an English slave ship, who came to faith after surviving a storm at sea in the eighteenth century and wrote the lyrics which across distances of time and culture have become, when set to music, a courier of the spirit to millions of people ER -