“When I Die I’ll Live Again” is a gospel song associated with the Reverend Gary Davis, the blind singer and guitarist of the Piedmont blues and gospel tradition. He recorded it for an album released in the early 1960s.
The song meets death with confidence rather than fear. Its message is the Christian promise of resurrection: that physical death is not an end but a passage, and that the believer who dies will live again. The certainty of that hope runs through the whole song.
The song crossed from Davis’s gospel-blues into the wider folk and bluegrass world. The version heard here is by Bobby Britt.
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