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…Featuring Norah Jones Norah Jones’ new album, …Featuring, is a compilation album featuring cameos, duets, and collaborations with artists across a vast array of music genre. The recording of these songs span the decade from 2001 to 2010 and show the wide range of Norah Jones’ vocal talent. As with pretty much any compilation album, I didn’t care for all of the songs just because they weren’t my preferred style of music. That being said, I was extremely impressed that Norah Jones sounded great on every song, all 18 songs, no matter what style of music she was singing or…

Review: Counting Stars

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Counting Stars by Andrew Peterson Album Description: Andrew’s songs remind us again and again of simple, solid things like love and friendship and hope and redemption and beauty and how our stories were meant to be shared, and how the darkness will not always hold sway, and how we, being human, need to hear those things over and over again, because otherwise we become disconnected from the very stories we’re living in. Andrew Peterson’s new, twelve-song project, Counting Stars (produced by Ben Shive, with Andy Gullahorn) manages to do all that without ever leaving home. Framed in a largely acoustic…

Review: Laws of Illusion

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Laws of Illusion by Sarah McLachlan Grammy® award winning, multi-platinum singer/songwriter Sarah McLachlan has just released her new album, Laws of Illusion. The album is the first studio album with new material in 7 years. The release of Laws of Illusion coincides with Lilith Fair Summer Tour. Artists on the bill include: Colbie Caillat, Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow, Erykah Badu, Ke$ha, Norah Jones, Sugarland, Heart, Miranda Lambert, Beth Orton, Brandi Carlile, Cat Power, Chantel Kreviazuk, Corinne Bailey Rae, Emmylou Harris, Gossip, Indigo Girls, Ingrid Michaelson, Jill Scott, Loretta Lynn, Metric, Sara Bareilles, Tegan and Sara and more! The tour…

Sixteen Cities Music Review

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Around here, we are always looking for good Christian music as we listen to a lot of music. We recently received the self-titled debut album from a band called Sixteen Cities. Since they’re fairly new on the music scene, we were curious to hear their sound. As we do with all cds, we quickly converted the songs to mp3, so we could listen to the songs on the go. We listened to Sixteen Cities as we were driving around. We all liked the relevant, upbeat music that we were hearing. The strong vocals were great combined with electric guitars and…

Shannon Perry: The Real Thing Review

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The Real Thing by Shannon Perry The Real Thing was written with Shannon’s If The Shoe Fits Christian women’s conferences in mind. It features 10 real world songs including: You are Incredible The Real Things Bad Hair Day Keep on Pressing on Words have a Way Long Way Home Before the Cross Make Me Awake Take What’s Yours Make Him Known I had heard some of these songs before, but I wasn’t familiar with Shannon’s story. Shortly after starting to write the scripts for her If the Shoe Fits conferences, Shannon’s husband David was diagnosed with cancer. Shannon found her…