Singing the psalms: bluegrass

I have sometimes thought, only partly tongue-in-cheek, that I should try to recover my former competence on the banjo after some four decades away and arrange at least a few of the Genevan Psalm tunes for bluegrass. It seems someone got there ahead of me. No, it isn’t a Genevan tune, but it definitely is the banjo and it’s even in Hebrew. Here’s Psalm 89:

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