Christmastime is here, happiness and cheer, etc...
Personally, i love christmas music. the standard secular stuff is great, but i have a particular love for the songs that focus on Christ (even if they don't have a particularly christmas-y melody). a good example would be chris rice's 'welcome to our world'.
By far, the best i've encountered of this type of holiday music is andy peterson's album 'behold the lamb of God: the true tall tale of the coming of Christ'. the songs all tie in to each other and are basically a chronological telling of old testament redemptive history leading up to Christ's incarnation. i highly highly recommend it for one and all. it started as a concert that he and a bunch of friends would put on one night a year at the Ryman in nashville, but as demand grew, they started a small tour with it each december and also went into the studio and made it into an album. the album is ridiculously good, and the concert is even better. Jaime and i have been the past 2 years (once in tampa and last year at the Ryman) and will be going to the b'ham show next week. they've released a 10 year anniversary CD this year as well (remastered and has a second disc of the live show).
so i just wanted to spread the word on the greatness that is this album. check it out if you've never heard of it. check his website (www.andrew-peterson.com) for tour dates to see if there's a show near you (sorry florida people, even though he's a floridian, no shows there this year for some reason). also, if you go to http://andrew-peterson.com/players/btlog/ you can play the entire album.
cheers,
scott
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