My dad is about as blue collar a guy as you’re likely to meet. As a fisherman in Maine, he has owned almost twenty different pickup trucks in my life time (and surely many more before I was born) and a wardrobe made up of ten pairs of jeans and […]
Month: October 2012
We Recommend: Bebo Norman, “Myself When I Am Real”
Ten years ago, then-Essential Records folk pop artist Bebo Norman released one of his best projects, Myself When I Am Real. When Bebo first debuted, his music was considerably more stripped-down and folk-based than people have probably come to know him for in recent years. By 2002, Myself When I Am Real was probably the […]
10 Years Later: Newsboys, “Thrive”
In many ways, Thrive marked the end of a chapter of the Newsboys story. It was the last album of all-original material that the classic Take Me To Your Leader lineup would make together (sans John James, of course). After Thrive, the lads from Australia (well, mostly) would go on to make a few worship albums (with some […]
Ten of John DiBiase’s Top Favorite Songs of All Time
About a year or so–maybe even longer now–the JFH staff talked about compiling our top, favorite songs in Christian music of all-time. They’d be songs each staff member had chosen on a personal level, and we’d comment on why we chose those songs. Recently, and I forget exactly what brought […]
10 Years Later: Pillar, “Fireproof”
I became a Christian in the year 2000. Before that, I didn’t know that Christians had their own music. My favorite band at the time was (don’t judge me) Limp Bizkit. Yes, rapcore was cool once (honestly, I’d be down for some right now). As I became introduced to this […]