I know what you’re thinking… where are the hymns? He’s got everything here (including the Kitchen Sink), but no darned hymns. Well, let me Throw Out the Lifeline. The words to this song were written in 1888 by Ed­win S. Uf­ford. “Uf­ford’s in­spir­a­tion came from a life sav­ing drill he ob­served at Point Al­ler­ton, near Bo­ston, Mass­a­chu­setts. He wrote the words and mu­sic short­ly af­ter re­turn­ing home” (source). The first recording below is the original music to the hymn just to show my point of departure. An undated session with Erik Huber from the early 90s from the cassette vault: