by Mark Craig | May 4, 2017 | Opinion
For many in the packed audience for the Neal Morse Band’s April 6 concert in Birmingham, England, the fact that Neal’s one of the leaders of the nonconformist City on a Hill Church in Nashville will be almost completely unknown. Another name unknown to...
by Mark McEntire | Oct 14, 2008 | Opinion
The title song opens the collection by juxtaposing elaborate pleasures with simple ones. It comes closer to rock-and-roll than any other selection on the album and grabs the attention of the listener, alerting us to the significance of the word “day,”...
by Mark McEntire | Oct 10, 2007 | Opinion
It has been almost 35 years since Bruce Springsteen’s first album, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., first appeared in January 1973, and his music has been one of my most enduring companions in the journey from teenager to middle-aged adult. His newest album,...
by Mark McEntire | Sep 5, 2006 | Opinion
Kate Campbell’s latest CD, For the Living of These Days, sets a rigorous standard for itself by opening with Woody Guthrie’s “Jesus Christ.” It is a challenge for a self-identified gospel album to maintain direct contact with the harsh...
by Robert Parham | Jun 5, 2006 | Opinion
The Dixie Chicks deserve applause from America’s new moral majority–those who said the war against Iraq failed to pass the time-honored code of just war theory and those 56 percent who now say the war was the wrong thing to do. Their chart-topping album,...
