Tom Rust is a friend of mine who loves Jesus and loves sports. Twenty years ago, he found a way to unite his two loves when he became the host of a syndicated radio program called Face to Face. Here is a description of the program from their website: “Face to Face” is a radio [...]
Some Music Observations
2 Feb by
I am a music man. Always have been. I remember listening to my mom’s Elvis and Buddy Holly 45s on an old portable record player. (If you didn’t understand a word I just said, go ask your grandparents for an interpretation.) The first album I remember owning myself was Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron by [...]
Recommended: St. Olaf Choir
31 Jan by
Last night, we attended another special event, this one unrelated to Super Bowl week. Seventeen of us from our choir traveled to the north side of Indy to St. Luke’s Methodist Church to hear the St. Olaf Choir from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Choral music is one of the greatest helps to meditation [...]
Listening Report: Kathleen Edwards
27 Jan by
Thanks to Mike Bell and our friends north of the border for sharing another great Canadian singer-songwriter with us. I’ve been enjoying Kathleen Edwards’ new album, Voyageur, lately, and thought you might like to hear some of her poignant, introspective music too. Here is the first cut from the album, “Empty Threat,” recorded at a [...]
Music in Sepia
11 Nov by
The Harrow & The Harvest Gillian Welch You know some girls are bright as the morning And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind • • • Though it was released in June, I’ve been listening lately to Gillian Welch’s first new album in eight years and have found it to be [...]
Third Quarter Listening Report
30 Sep by
Here we are at the end of September already, and it is time to give my reviews of some of the popular music that was released during this third quarter of 2011. As I say in each of these posts, I don’t have the resources to check out a lot of music, so I generally [...]
That Great 70′s Sound Lives!
2 Sep by
By Chaplain Mike Some of my favorite music of all time came out of the “Laurel Canyon” folk-rock movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, with artists like Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, the Eagles and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Here’s one of my NEW favorite bands that hearkens back to that sound. This [...]
Come, People of the Risen King
14 Aug by
By Chaplain Mike A song calling the church to come as one to praise Christ, by one of our best contemporary hymn-writers, Stuart Townend, and performed in concert by Keith and Kristyn Getty.
A Musical Primer on the Ancient-Future Path
12 Jul by
By Chaplain Mike If I were to design a course to teach about spiritual formation from an ancient-future perspective, my soundtrack would be the new album by John Michael Talbot, called, Worship and Bow Down. Remarkably, this is Talbot’s 53rd (!) record, but it is different than most of his previous releases. In light of [...]
Second Quarter Listening Report
29 Jun by
By Chaplain Mike It is time for my quarterly update on new popular music to which I’ve been listening. I don’t have a lot of money to spend on music, so I try to pick and choose what to put on my iPod. Like everyone, I have my favorites from whom I’ll buy an album [...]
