A Surprising Must-Buy Collection From The Christmas Music Queen
Amy Grant knows Christmas. After all she has been recording and performing holiday music for 25 years, the equivalent of a lifetime (albeit a young one). And over the course of three holiday records (one Gold, one Platinum and one triple Platinum!) her voice has become synonymous [...]
Archive for December, 2008
** ** ** ** ** SPECIAL HOLIDAY REVIEWS 2008 ** ** ** ** Amy Grant “The Christmas Collection”
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Travis Cottrell “Ring the Bells”
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Goosebump-Inducing Holiday Record Of The Year
After 10 years of leading worship for Beth Moore’s wildly successful Living Proof Bible study events, it is no surprise that Travis Cottrell’s new Christmas collection would incite a reputable buzz among worship ministry personnel across the nation. But expectations aside, listeners will in no way be prepared to be [...]
Fernando Ortega “Christmas Songs”
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Yet Another Acoustic Delight
Before his major label debut in 1997, Fernando Ortega recorded a variety of albums independently, utilizing mainly acoustic instruments and understated arrangements to capture the simple beauty of hymns and other traditional songs. And in many regards Ortega jumpstarted, and contributed immensely to, the hymnody renaissance
Casting Crowns “Peace On Earth”
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Casting Christmas Fails To Meet Expectations
After last year’s The Altar and the Door debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200, going down in the books as the highest debut week for a Christian music artist in chart history, Casting Crowns effectively secured its astonishing hold on the Gospel music industry
David Phelps “O Holy Night: A Live Holiday Celebration”
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Dizzying Styles Overshadow, But Phelps’ Magnificent Vocals Shine
David Phelps is a busy man. Between releasing 2005’s full-length project Life is a Church, 2006’s Legacy of Love Live project, 2007’s One Wintry Night and No More Night: Live in Birmingham CD/DVD combo, Phelps is pairing up the fall release of his new studio record, The Voice, [...]
Annie Moses Band “This Glorious Christmas”
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A Glorious, Refined Debut
There’s certainly something respectable about a band of young people who hope to “raise up a generation of excellence among musicians in the Church.” Where original, innovative art once thrived, the Church has been noted in modern culture as a “behind-the-times” venue
Coming To A City Near You This Christmas
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Christmas Tours
We no longer address our wish lists to the North Pole, and sugarplums are not the only fruity things running amok in our brains, but once Thanksgiving’s turkey settles, our affinity for Christmas still enchants us for the year’s final lap.
As Santa’s specially appointed helper here at CCM’s Nashville headquarters, I have compiled the [...]
