G.E. Wright
Musician
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Songwriter
G.E. Wright was a gospel songwriter credited with “When He Reached Down His Hand for Me,” first cut by Johnnie & Jack and the Tennessee Mountain Boys in 1953 and since recorded by Johnny Cash, Jimmie Davis, Bill Monroe, and IIIrd Tyme Out, among many others. Beyond the song credit, little has survived in the hymnological record about Wright himself.
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- Credited as the author of the gospel song “When He Reached Down His Hand for Me.”
- Johnnie & Jack and the Tennessee Mountain Boys cut the first commercial version of the song in 1953.
- The song has since been recorded by Johnny Cash, Jimmie Davis, Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, the Shenandoah Valley Quartet with Jim Eanes, and the contemporary bluegrass group IIIrd Tyme Out.
