Style: Rich, intimate folk; compare to Ani DiFranco, Devon Sproule, Sam Phillips
Top Tracks: "Young Man in America," "Dyin' Day," "Tailor"
How do you follow something like Hadestown (one of CT's top albums of 2010)—a full-blown "folk opera" that re-imagined Greek myth in the language of an American Depression? If you're Anais Mitchell, you dial back the gods and goddesses (though there is a paean to "Venus") but not the ambition, and you head to the American frontier. Young Man in America is not a concept album per se, but it is rich and rewarding album that examines a particularly modern malaise. Mitchell's characters are too old to be parented, but not yet parents themselves; they are lost in a search for meaning, and the hollow materialism offered by their culture is no answer at all.
With corporate consolidation in worship music, more entities are invested in the songs sung on Sunday mornings. How will their financial incentives shape the church?
One formed me. The other entertained me.
With corporate consolidation in worship music, more entities are invested in the songs sung on Sunday mornings. How will their financial incentives shape the church?español
Kids’ addictions to their phones isn’t a legislative issue. It’s a discipleship one.
