Christmas Cheer From Downhere!
Known for his quick wit and dry humor, Downhere’s main man, Marc Martel, banters about the holidays, granting fans an inside scoop on the popular band’s first yuletide recording, How Many Kings: Songs for Christmas (Centricity). Dishing behind-the-scenes details on the album’s brightest tracks, the brassy Canadian takes time to school CCM [...]
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Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Christmas, Downhere on December 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Shane & Shane
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Shane & Shane on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Scriptures Unplugged
Using Holy Scripture to frame songs of praise for more than a decade, Shane Barnard and Shane Everett, better known as Christian music’s best-selling acoustic duo, Shane & Shane, are leaning more than ever on their personal Bible study and experience leading worship at their home church in Texas to inspire their trademark memory-verse [...]
Jeremy Camp “Live”
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Jeremy Camp on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sophomore Concert CD Focuses On Hits
It’s been four years since Jeremy Camp released his first “live” recording, Unplugged, featuring a list of No.1 singles and fan favorites from his trio of gold-certified records (Restored, Carried Me and Stay), including the companion concert DVD, which has been certified multi-platinum since. Suffice it to say, Camp has [...]
Seabird “Rocks Into Rivers”
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Seabird on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More Melodic Rock From Rising Indie Outfit
For a band quoted as perfectly content “being the underdog” for their entire career if “that meant surprising the critics and naysayers every time we scored a touchdown,” EMI’s indie/alternative collective Seabird must have ignored their recent mainstream achievements. With accessible melodic piano-based rock, the band has found a [...]
Sara Groves
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Sara Groves on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Songbird’s Confession
Sara Groves might be the most respected singer/songwriter in Christian music today, thanks in part to her unpretentious habit of singing songs about real life. So when the vulnerable songstress says, “This one is the songwriter’s album for sure,” about her latest collection, Fireflies & Songs (INO), you know you’d better listen closely. [...]
Steven Curtis Chapman “Beauty Will Rise”
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, Beauty Will Rise, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Steven Curtis Chapman on November 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Beloved Songwriter Pens Personal Psalms
“Heaven is a sweet, maple syrup kiss / And a thousand other little things I miss with her gone” (“Heaven Is the Face”).
Though Steven Curtis Chapman has always related to his fans, he’s never gotten as personal with his extended family of listeners as he does on Beauty Will Rise, his [...]
Phil Wickham
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Phil Wickham on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Phil Wickham’s Homesick
Phil Wickham thought he had the details of heaven covered. That was before he read Donald Miller’s take on man’s pre-sin relationship with God in Miller’s 2004 book, Searching for God Knows What. It prompted the singer/songwriter to probe the Bible for insights into paradise, and his subsequent “awakening” eventually inspired his third [...]
Phil Wickham “Heaven & Earth”
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Phil Wickham on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Heaven Never Sounded So Good
If Phil Wickham’s Heaven & Earth is indicative of the music of heaven, then I can’t wait to die. Wanting to wake Christians up with the soul-shaking reality of the gospel story, the epic singer/songwriter’s third album takes the listener on a journey that starts with “Eden,” a song that gives [...]
Shane & Shane “Everything is Different”
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, CCM Magazine, Christian Music, Shane & Shane on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More To Memorize From Scriptural Duo
When Mac Powell made a wish list of songwriters to contribute to this year’s Glory Revealed II scripture song project, it’s no surprise Shane Barnard and Shane Everett were at the very top. Having chalked up a successful career with a catalog of discs comprised of songs largely based on [...]
Casting Crowns “Until the Whole World Hears”
Posted in CCM Magazine, tagged andrew greer, Casting Crowns, CCM Magazine, Christian Music on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Heart For Ministry Overrules Musical Mediocrity
Casting Crowns has cultivated quite a following since they released their self-titled debut six years ago. The evidence? Six consecutive Dove Award wins for “Group of the Year,” four Platinum and two Gold record and video certifications, plus a Grammy Award and an American Music Award. Not bad for a [...]
