Rock legends from my youth are dropping like flies this year. This morning's sad news is the passing of the legendary keyboardist Keith Emerson, of the innovative rock trio Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Young people will not have heard of them. This is because they were from the days when rock musicians could actually play…
I found this, while basically messing about looking for something else. One forgets how magnificent this music is, and how perfectly it illustrates the Scripture.
I was saved as a teenager, and was very much into music. However, I had eclectic musical tastes, trained in classical music, but loving good music of any form. So I devoured Contemporary Christian Music of various forms. One name in CCM that often came up was that of Andrae Crouch. So I got hold…
I found a great video of one of my favorite songs from this group of aging rockers. Did I ever mention that I was at the same school as keyboard player Mike Lindup – though obviously he was a lot older than me! (well, about a year older, anyway)
In the wake of the dreadful murder of the three Israeli teenagers, I was looking around the Internet, and came across this beautiful lament.
Seeing the recent British TV series Land Girls being broadcast here in America on PBS reminded me that I was once part of a writing team for a musical about land girls,called Secrets. That was when I was a schoolteacher at Droylsden High School. The year is 1985. This is the opening chorus number, Makin'…
This must be my favorite Christmas song of recent years. The words were written by comedian Mark Lowry – and here he is singing it himself.
Time for some light relief from all the heavy doctrine over the last several days. Someone on Facebook posted a link to this video. Sit back and listen to some of the most sublime music ever written.
