“Shine Hallelujah Shine” is a bluegrass gospel song carried into the recorded tradition by Bill Monroe, the founding figure of bluegrass. Monroe and his Blue Grass Quartet recorded it around the late 1940s, during the years when sacred quartet singing was central to his band’s work.
The lyric works a bright, familiar gospel image — the light of faith and salvation shining out, the believer urged to let that light shine for all to see. Monroe set it in the tight four-part harmony rooted in the church singing of his Kentucky upbringing, the kind of joyful sacred number that balanced the sorrowful side of his repertoire.
The song stayed in bluegrass gospel singing and has been recorded by later acts.
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