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“You All Loved Him Once”
I’d heard that Conor Oberst had recently released a new album, but I hadn’t given much thought to checking it out until last night. I started with “You All Loved Him Once.” What a brutally poignant song about what we … Continue reading
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Simple Song for the MacLaren’s Gang
I just finished a longer-than-anticipated rewatch of the eighth season of How I Met Your Mother. Complain all you want about how the ninth season ended, but the eighth season’s wrap stands out as one of my favorite moments from … Continue reading
Still Getting LOST
This past weekend, composer Michael Giacchino gathered an orchestra and played some of the great music that made up the soundtrack for LOST. The “We Have to Go Back” concerts covered two nights and six seasons of television. Here’s a … Continue reading
Nineteen
Today marked nineteen years since the death of Rich Mullins. I am grateful to the high school friends who introduced me to his music and for the musicians who have kept his legacy of honest and contextual songwriting alive. Just … Continue reading
End of Summer Song
I suppose summer ends in different ways for different people. The start of a new school years. Labor Day. A certain feel to the season of movies. The return of network television after a summer of reruns (or reality television, … Continue reading
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All We Ever Do
It seems like “All We Ever Knew” by The Head and the Heart comes on every time I turn on the radio. And while the song isn’t as coherent as I would like, it simple line of “all we ever … Continue reading
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A Jingle of Loose Change
From earlier this year, when Peterson was in Hawaii. Can’t believe I hadn’t already posted this, as it’s a good clip of a great song.
Reminders of the Sacred Journey
It was the music of Wes King that led me to the books of Frederick Buechner. King’s “Magnificent Defeat” was inspired by a Buechner sermon of the same name. I remember in college reading through Buechner’s sermons and early biographical … Continue reading
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When the Town Doesn’t Hit Back (My Brave Face)
Some time ago, one of my favorite musicians “kickstarted” a multi-ep project. If the campaign went beyond budget expectations, Andrew Osenga promised an ep of covers voted on by his supporters. That ep “dropped” this week and included a song … Continue reading
Ricky Baker in Middle Earth
One of the cinematic highlights in the summer of 2016 has been Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Directed by Taika Waititi (of What We Do in the Shadows), Wilderpeople follows the adventures of a kid rejected by society making his way … Continue reading
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