Recently, but not too recently, I was introduced to a kind of music I barely
\neven knew existed. A type of music that I had no real interest in and a type
\nof music that my sampling of at the time was, thankfully, not representative of
\nthe genre as a whole. That music was Christian rock or Contemporary Christian
\nmusic, as it is often referred.<\/p>\n
The problem with the label of Contemporary Christian music is somewhat indicative
\nof my past problems with Christian music as a whole. See, “Contemporary Christian”
\nmusic really covers the gamut of music styles, a gamut that is crowded with
\nall sorts of music from rock to gospel, but is overwhelmingly represented by
\nwhat I would call light tunes. You know, the kind of music that sounds like
\nYanni got a hold of some classic 80’s pop and slowed it down a bit for the old folks.
\nThe majority of Contemporary Christian music played on the radio very much falls
\ninto this or the gospel category. Neither of these particularly interest me
\nso I never really gave any Christian music the time of day.<\/p>\n
Well, along came a spider in the form of some mp3’s from Timing is everything. The current state of rock has really bored me. I don’t And boy did I. First, I went after some more stuff by Steven Curtis Chapman. At a later date I may go more into what has drawn me to Christian music and Recently, but not too recently, I was introduced to a kind of music I barely even knew existed. A type of music that I had no real interest in and a type of music that my sampling of at the time was, thankfully, not representative of the genre as a whole. That music was Christian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plan.thewoottons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSteven Curtis Chapman<\/a>,
\nborrowed from a friend partially by accident. It just happened to tag along with some
\nother stuff I was interested in. Funny thing is, my first impressions weren’t
\nall that positive, something along the lines of “Wow, this is a bit too in
\nyour face for me”. I hadn’t really heard faith expressed so openly in a form
\nof music I really liked. I gave it more play time and the album,
\nSpeechless<\/a>,
\nis now probably one of my favorite albums of all time. I still enjoy it.<\/p>\n
\nknow what it is. Maybe I’m growing up and my tastes are changing. The
\nLynyrd Synyrd, Rush, and Led Zepplin well was exhausted years ago (although
\nRush’s new one isn’t bad and the new Lynyrd Synryrd stuff is really good).
\nDave Matthew’s Band, the Bare Naked Ladies, Creed, and others haven’t
\nbeen releasing things quickly enough. A lot of the rock released the past
\ncouple of years could have been done by the same band for all I know. So
\nwhat am I to do? Look for more stuff like the album that initially grabbed
\nmy interest.<\/p>\n
\nHe has a ton of albums, and just happened to release a new one a month
\nafter I heard Speechless. Since then, I’ve added
\nThird Day<\/a>, which is probably my
\nfavorite Christian band at the moment, and Jennifer Knapp (actually, I grabbed
\none of her albums before I ever heard Mr. Chapman’s tunes, but that is another
\nstory) along with bands such as Mercy Me to my play, and CD, list. I even added
\nNichole Nordeman<\/a> before going
\nto see both Steven Curtis Chapman and her in concert.
\nNichole, by the way, has one of the best Christian songs out there, named Why<\/i>,
\nfrom her This Mystery album.Check it out if you get the chance.<\/p>\n
\nwhat I’m listening to now. But for now, especially since this entry is running
\na bit long, I’m just happy to tap my foot (along with the desk, my legs, and
\nother random objects) along to something that both inspires me and gives me
\nsomething to listen to until the next
\nEminem<\/a> CD makes it way out the door.
\nYep, I own the last two albums of his, including the new one. Sue me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"