Bette Midler is not a mere singer; she's an artist. She doesn't just sing; she knows how to incarnate herself into her songs. So that when she sings she animates the emotions and the characters of the songs she sings. "It's the Girls!" is Miss Divine's 14th studio album and her 25th album overall.
moreYou don't have to be George Barna to know that the major complaints surrounding modern worship songs often congregate around these perennial issues. First, many often feel jarred by the repetitive triteness of the lyrics of many worship songs.
moreThe Southern Gospel music scene is so littered with quartets and trios that it is reaching a point of saturation. Thus, when push comes to shove, sometimes it's a challenge to differentiate one group from another. And with the proliferation of groups comes the re-cycling of songs coming from the same canon that keeps getting replicated over and over again. So, thank God for Revelation.
moreThe ipseity of Jesus Culture has always been their big, anthemic, and stadium-filling worship created by the sound of thousands of worshipping voices. And being the matriarch of Jesus Culture, which initially emerged as worship for young people, Kim Walker-Smith has had always been known for her live worship singing.
moreThe medieval view of heaven where angels gently strum the harps at their serene best won't score any points in Sarah Kelly's book. Singer cum songwriter Sarah Kelly on the title cut "My Corner of Heaven" gives us her version of what heaven is like.
moreThere's something ghastly spooky about Barry Manilow's "My Dream Duets." Released on the week of Halloween, this album finds the 71 year-old crooner opening the crypt to find his duet partners where most of them are already nothing but mere bones. In fact, all of Manilow's dream duet partners are all dead.
more"Set Apart" is the mouthpiece of the plebeian. What is most winsome about Worship Central's brand new live worship recording "Set Apart" is that it functions like many of the Psalms in Holy Writ. Articulating the heart cries of the ordinary Christian with concise perspicuity and never for once trivializing them, these are prayers offered to God in humble worship.
moreTaylor Swift's "1989" is heralded by music industrialists as the Messiah of today's music. According to a recent report by Billboard magazine, none of the albums released in 2014 has sold over a million copies. The bestselling record this year is the soundtrack "Frozen" which was released last year. And the only record that is only going to redeem the music industry this year is Taylor Swift's "1989," an album that was expected to ship over a million copies in its debut week.
moreChris Tomlin has had a double shot of happiness lately. On 7th October this year, Chris and his wife Lauren welcomed the addition of their new baby Madison. Now Tomlin will see the release of his brand new worship album "Love Ran Red." This is his 9th non-Passion event solo studio album coming hot on the heels of last year's Billboard 200 #1 smash debut "Burning Lights."
moreExperience offers a tutelage no amount of tuition can ever compensate for. When Rebeccah Miller sings, "You make me well/You heal me of my sadness/... /You fill my heart with gladness/You are, You are the spring of life" on the title cut of her new EP "You Make Me Well," she sings with such a moving conviction that you can never purchase with a seminary degree or emulate via repeated rehearsals
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