Say Amen ... Hymns & Songs of Faith | Music

Free Newsletters:

RSS Feeds |

Audio |

Twitter

Home > Music > Reviews > 2009

Ginny Owens
Say Amen ... Hymns & Songs of Faith (Lucid Artist)
Released June 2009
Reviewed by Andrew Greer

Style: Affective renditions of timeless hymns; compare to Randall Goodgame, Sara Groves and Selah

Top tracks: "Just As I Am," "Say Amen," "If I Can Help Somebody"

In a nutshell: Having spent the past year shuffling between Nashville and Jackson, Mississippi to help her mom battle cancer, Ginny Owens recorded Say Amen as both a testament to her family's faith in God through the ordeal and a tribute to her own rich church heritage. Playlisting soulful originals next to Sunday standards, Say Amen interpolates old and new to create a traditional-but-not-typical track listing. If ever there were an artist in Christian music to dress these historic hymns with fresh perspectives it is Ms. Owens. With so much raw emotion and poignant phrasing dictating each line, Say Amen is the pearl in Owens' treasure trove of recordings.

E-mail this page

Write CT

Print this article

Post a comment

Reader Reviews are below

Subscribe to Christianity Today and get 3 free trial issues. No credit card required.

Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery. Offer valid in U.S. only.

If you decide you want to keep Christianity Today coming, honor your invoice for just $19.95 and receive nine more issues, a full year in all. If not, simply write "cancel" across the invoice and return it. The three trial issues are yours to keep, regardless.

Click here for international orders

2-for-1 Gifts!

[Reader Reviews]

Average User Rating: Not rated

The allotted time for commenting has ended.