Paul Baloche

By Roy Hershberger • Nov 30th, 2009 • Category: Album Reviews

Paul Baloche has served as the Worship Pastor at Community Christian Fellowship in Lindale, Texas for 20 years. Many of his compositions are familiar praise and worship songs in church gatherings worldwide. Though his name is not very recognizable, his impact on the genre is perhaps just as profound as the likes of Michael W. [...]


Joey Witham

By Roy Hershberger • Jun 23rd, 2009 • Category: Album Reviews

Joey Witham, a worship leader from the Dallas area, has released his third album featuring eight original songs. Though his worship leading roots are evident throughout, as in the case of many such new artists from this genre, it can not be defined so strictly in traditional terms. Witham’s style for
The Great Homesickness is to [...]


Decyfer Down

By Roy Hershberger • May 5th, 2009 • Category: Album Reviews

Decyfer Down’s second album, Crash, is a good example of artistry that comes straight from the heart. Hard edged, slightly southern flavored, rock, with hook-laden, soring melodies, and passionate, real life experience lyrics, this is an album and band that is instantly likable. There is an intensity and focus here that make one believe that [...]


Revive

By Roy Hershberger • Mar 2nd, 2009 • Category: Album Reviews

Billboard Magazine has named Revive one of the bands to watch out for in 2009, and with good reason. Having signed with Third Day’s Consuming Fire Productions, subsequently Provident Music, the Christian devision of Sony BMG, they have a lot of promotional backing for their new album. Not to mention that they have already opened [...]


The Priests

By Roy Hershberger • Jan 14th, 2009 • Category: Album Reviews

Though this is their premier album, The Priests have been singing as a trio for a long time. In fact, they grew up singing together, two of them being brothers. These three intelligent and engaging Irish priests started performing on a regular basis while attending St. MacNissi’s College near the small village of Carnlough in [...]


Kaboose

By Roy Hershberger • Dec 10th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

What do Southern California and Northern Minnesota have in common? One’s first instincts would be to say, “not much,” but there probably are a lot more similarities than most people realize. Cultural diversity is one. Bemidji, (pronounced, buh-midge-ee) Minnesota, the current residence of Ron Wilson, (a.k.a. Kaboose) is one of the most culturally diverse cities [...]


Neal Morse

By Roy Hershberger • Nov 13th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

In the mid-to-late 70s, a particular genre of music started to emerge that at first seemed to be headed for a certain dominance in the rock music world. Bands like Kansas, Yes, Styx, and Rush became very popular as they strove to take rock to new levels of complexity and sophistication. With the advent of [...]


The Showdown

By Roy Hershberger • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

In 2004 The Showdown introduced themselves to the music world with A Chorus of Obliteration, a musically hardcore, and lyrically bold album that drew in a good sized fan base of metal-heads who loved it and demanded more. With their second, more laid-back release, Temptation Come My Way, those fans let the band know exactly [...]


Corey Crowder

By Roy Hershberger • Nov 4th, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

Georgia native Corey Crowder is developing an original sound with his unique fusion of country, jazz, and folk. His latest album gives us a fine taste of a mature, big production work that is surprisingly more rootsy country/blues oriented than his early recordings. A few of the songs are of top notch production, with plenty [...]


Sandra McCracken

By Roy Hershberger • Oct 1st, 2008 • Category: Album Reviews

Sometimes the raw spontaneity of emotion that comes out in the writing of a song can be lost in the record making process. When the time comes to record the final vocal tracks, the layers of other musical elements and influences may take away or even change the original feel and concept of that first [...]