The Oar is a gospel song symbolizing the use of wood, wind and the roar of courage evoking God's power in the singer's life...
Song writer: Peggy Mercer with melody and arrangement by John Richards, recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at Creative Caffeine Studio with engineer John Constable for boomlab productions...Session players were an A team composed of John Richards on guitar; on drums, Austin Bealmar; bass was John Owenby and on fiddle, Michelle Bailey and Michelle Bailey on backup vocals. Studio owner Pino Squillace...
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Peggy Mercer, writer of the song once went down to the river with her father, a WWII hero and gospel singer in his later years who held the boat paddle up and said, "God is in this wood, this oar..." so the story was a reference to his image.
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