The first day of December each year begins my twenty-five day run down of Christmas themed songs. But each December’s songs always starts with Andrew Petersen’s Christmas themed concept album Behold The Lamb Of God. I’m sure each year new people are discovering this great album. Peterson and a group of friends perform this as …
This is a little departure. Rend Collective have released a Christmas album and one of the tracks is their version of Ding Dong Merrily On High. Don’t think I’d ever sing it this way, but I like listening to it. (I confess to singing loudly along in the car, too) Here’s the track from their …
EMU Music have just released Songs Of The Saved, a collection of songs seeking to express the great themes common to the experience of God’s redeemed people. I’m listening to it at various times to see if anything strikes me as demanding to be sung. There’s no immediate stand-outs, although More Of You is probably …
Part of the very busy music acquisitions week included Don Moen’s second album of hymns Hymns Of Hope. Very simple vocal and piano (with minor additions) renditions, Moen allows the hymns to speak for themselves. He Hideth My Soul is a favourite song of mine (among hundreds of others, I know). What I like is …
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