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Music Reviews-April 09 Print Email
Written by Cameron Conant   
Monday, 06 April 2009 02:28 PM America/New_York

Pop

altTwila Paris

Koch Records (Koch Entertainment Distribution)

0-99923-51082-6

Music veteran Paris is back with an album that until recently was only available at LifeWay Christian Stores. Paris, whose career has spanned three decades and produced dozens of hit singles, offers a solid collection of gentle pop that’s in keeping with her past work.

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Music Reviews-March 2009 Print Email
Written by Cameron Conant   
Thursday, 26 March 2009 06:07 PM America/New_York

TopPick-Gospel

Kari Jobe

Kari Jobe

Integrity Music (Integrity Distribution)

0-00768-45502-9

jobe cdThis debut from Jobe, worship pastor at Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, will be a hit with fans of praise & worship artists like Laura Story.

Jobe’s voice has an endearing quality and sounds great on these songs, most of which are mid-tempo praise tunes and thoughtful ballads. Jobe is in her element on the slower tunes, which have several genuinely moving moments.

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Paradise Sky; Just Love; Shari Addison; Stand Print Email
Written by Cameron Conant   
Friday, 16 January 2009 03:52 PM America/New_York

paradise skyParadise Sky
Randy Stonehill
Stonehillian Records
(Infinity Music Distribution)
8-29569-80992-9

Stonehill pays tribute to late Christian music pioneer Larry Norman, his friend and occasional producer, with an album of re-recorded songs for Fallen Angel, a documentary about Norman’s life that releases later this year.

The songs Stonehill has reworked (“Norman’s Kitchen,” “King of Hearts,” “Keep Me Runnin’ ” and more) are from four of his classic albums, including Welcome to Paradise and The Sky Is Falling. What’s surprising is how fresh these songs sound.

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Music Reviews-February 2009 Print Email
Written by Cameron Conant   
Monday, 09 February 2009 10:26 AM America/New_York

fiction fam cdFiction Family
Fiction Family
ATO Records/Credential Recordings
(EMI CMG)
5-09992-68213-2-0

While this unlikely album from Jon Foreman (Switchfoot) and Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) channels some of the pop of the first group and the accessible bluegrass of the second, Fiction Family mostly sounds like Foreman’s fifth consecutive solo EP, with some nice harmonies and an occasional lead vocal from Watkins.

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Music Reviews: Andrew Peterson, pureNRG, David Phelps Print Email
Written by Felicia Abraham   
Monday, 10 November 2008 01:14 PM America/New_York

TOP PICK:

Resurrection Letters Volume II
Andrew Peterson
Centricity Music (Word Distribution)
8-29619-10672-5

If there’s a better artist in Christian music, it’s unclear who it would be. Peterson is one of those indie musicians who flits around the edges of Christian music but somehow represents the best this genre has to offer. Resurrection Letters Volume II—his first with Centricity—will come as no surprise to those...

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