Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter and former American Idol finalist Chris Sligh is back! Only You Can Save is the carrier single of The Anatomy of Broken, which drops across the United States on September 14. The Only You Can Save video embedded here is of Chris performing at Cornerstone Bible Fellowship, and the Only You Can Save lyrics reproduced below are taken from my transcription of the song. Some parts were relatively...

Contemporary Christian journeyman Bebo Norman has consistently released first-class material, and if Here Goes, the first single off his new CD, Ocean, out September 28 via BEC Recordings, is any indication, Ocean promises to be the latest in a long line of quality CDs worth their place in your Christian record collection. Several of Bebo’s songs are CCM staples – the moving Great Light of the World and the gentle, introspective...

2010 Dove Award winner for New Artist of the Year Sidewalk Prophets won that award on the strength of its single, The Words I Would Say, but that track, for all its beauty and chart success (#3 on Billboard’s Christian Songs chart), isn’t the best track on their debut CD These Simple Truths. Luckily for all of us, that track, You Can Have Me, has been released to Christian AC, and is now steadily climbing up the charts. God...

For the record, my favorite Contemporary Christian singer/songwriter is Matthew West. I’ve followed his music ever since More came out in 2003, off his spectacular major-label debut CD, Happy; I love him so much that he has his own category on my website (the only other singer who has that? His labelmate Mandisa). The two albums that followed, History and Something To Say, just upped the ante for Matthew; each CD was clearly better...

Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Heather Williams is the real deal, ladies and gentlemen. I learned of her after seeing that her new single, Hallelujah (INO Records) is one of the five most-added tracks at Soft AC/Inspo radio this week, so I decided to check out YouTube to see what she was about, and my goodness, you all have to watch her tell her story. I can’t even begin to explain to you how Hallelujah‘s power to...

Thousand Foot Krutch’s E For Extinction is the fifth single – can you believe it? Six singles off a Christian CD?? – off the Canadian rock band’s brilliant Welcome to the Masquerade (Tooth and Nail) CD, following Bring Me to Life, Forward Motion, Fire It Up and Already Home. E For Extinction is blazing hot at rock radio: it’s the fastest growing airplay track at Christian Rock, and is one of the most added as...