When I downloaded two albums by Ordinary Time earlier this year I left a third recording of theirs for later. In The Town Of David is a collection of Advent and Christmas themed songs, all recorded in a style of acoustic bluegrass folk. Each year I like to expand my repertoire of classic Christmas songs …
Charles Wesley’s Jesus Lover Of My Soul is a classic hymn. Little more needs be said. If you don’t know it, or don’t sing it, your connection to evangelical Christianity is impoverished. There’s a chorus of the same name by Geoff Bullock which is vastly inferior and full of theological dodginess, it’s hard to sing, …
Turns out Sufjan Stevens is the most popular musician I’d never heard of. Anyway, Songs For Christmas the compilation of his five Christmas themed EPs, is available for US$12 at his bandcamp site. That’s 42 tracks for $12. If you want to own just one Christmas album, this pretty much fills the bill. The recordings …
I’m enjoying Douglas Wilson’s pieces about what to expect in worship at the family of churches of which he is a part. Here he turns his thoughts to the place of Psalms in worship and sung praise. Of special interest is his observation about the inexplicable curiosity of churches which put the injunction to sing …
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