Dominican Father Thomas Joseph White, co-founder of the U.S.-based bluegrass band The Hillbilly Thomists, is pictured in Rome March 13, 2021. (CNS photo/Robert Duncan)
I am not someone who typically listens to bluegrass or country music, but I
am a Flannery O’Connor fan. So I came to the latest album by the Hillbilly Thomists “Just as I Am,” as one of the record’s songs says. I have not been able to stop listening to “Living for the Other Side” since.
The Hillbilly Thomists are a band of friars from the Order of Preachers, otherwise known as the Dominicans. The group began as a creative outlet for two Dominican priests, Fathers Austin Litke and Thomas Joseph White; other brothers joined in to play music just for fun. The group kept growing eventually enlivening house events and the streets of Washington before they officially recorded their first album, released in 2017. “Living for the Other Side” was recorded over 10 days at a Dominican retreat house in the Ca
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