A new discovery to me, I will be buying the first album by this group. Excellent vocal layering. A beautiful song. Tremendous worship. Fantastic confession. “All Things New” drops their first album February 12th. You can visit the band’s website here.
Read more →I heard this song on the radio last week for the first time and it grabbed me. Fantastic music, great lyrics. Not a past Plumb follower, I’ll keep my ears open now for more stuff by Tiffany.
Read more →One of my favorites from a while ago. Always liked Collin’s music.
Read more →Not hip to the hot R&B of the 90’s, I came across this tune on my Backstreet Boys station on Pandora (no snickering!), and all I can say is I love the sterling sound of these brothers’ blended vocals. I wish I could sing, and if I could I wish I could sing in...
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My original foray into smooth jazz started with a sampling of much of the exemplary music by saxophonist Dave Koz. Koz set the bar in jazz for me. With the help of Pandora listening, I’ve picked up some new jazz artist favorites over time. Along with Koz, Chris Botti stepped up as the man...
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This song has remained in my head over the last few days after hearing it this weekend. I fail, I falter, and yet He is always present to draw me close to His heart. A suitable song of praise for today.
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When I was in high school, Chris Payton, my musical taste mentor, turned me on to the Sacramento-based band Bourgeois Tagg, which was piloted by Brent Bourgeois and Larry Tagg. Bourgeois Tagg was popular for quite a while in Sacramento, L.A., and southern California before it had a few songs hit the national charts....
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One of my favorite rockier groups from the ’80’s. I was pretty much a Christian radio kid growing up, and Idle Cure put some edge into the schmaltzy AOR I subscribed to. As always, my friend Chris Payton paved the way for my evolving musical tastes for most of those years. Fist bump, dude....
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After just realizing who these guys were, today the news breaks that they are discontinuing their current tour, and face an uncertain future. Relationships. Sometimes so tenuous.
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Something in me, dark and sticky All the time it’s getting strong No way of dealing with this feeling Can’t go on like this too long This time you’ve gone too far This time you’ve gone too far This time you’ve gone too far I told you, I told you, I told you, I...
Read more →The lyrics have been going through my mind this morning. Love ain’t love until you give it away. — “Give It Away” She asked him for forever And a promise that would last He said, “Babe, you know I love you But I can’t commit to that” She said “Love isn’t love ‘Til you...
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Some funk-a-riffic tunage by a group shared with me by Ben Savoca, king of electrofunk and cool story bromanship, and who happens to look curiously like the lead singer of this group. What’s up with that, Ben?
Read more →Some days feel like a midnight pause at the single signaled intersection in a sleeping Kansas town. Winds swirl around you like a flood of memories while the sky is broad and heavy and roiling and moist and hoarse, and the wheat silently swaying in the surrounding farm fields whispers the names of longings and loves that have moved on through your life, and you realize you’ve been here before- and you’re not sure if you are coming, or going- or if you will ever get on out of this lonesome place.