Nobody does a great piano ballad like Sara Groves. Nichole Nordeman's Beautiful For Me and Audrey Assad's Restless notwithstanding, Sara Groves' Eyes on the Prize is one of the loveliest piano ballads released in the past few months. I love her expressive voice and...
Family Force 5, “Not Alone”
Atlanta-formed Contemporary Christian punk rock band Family Force 5 has never really been on my radar, despite the excellent quality of the music it produces. The new album, III, features Not Alone, which I've only recently managed to listen to. What a great ballad!...
Matthew West, “Family Tree”
My wife, noted KPop writer Caths Deen, recently gave me for an anniversary present the latest album of Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter Matthew West. The Story of Your Life CD/DVD package is one of the best CCM albums I've ever heard for a variety of reasons,...
Deborah Gibson, “Anytime (I Am There)”
One of my best friends, Jay Tan, died three years ago - his fourth death anniversary comes in less than two months - and I remember Deborah Gibson's Anytime (I Am There) as one of the songs that consoled me in that deep moment of loss. As a song for funerals and...
Matt Maher, “Hark The Herald Angels Sing”
One of the things I like most about Matt Maher is that what you see is what you get. The Catholic singer-songwriter has produced some of Contemporary Christian music's more palatable tracks of late, including the now-classic Your Grace is Enough. With his folksy take...
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