If like me you've lost faith in artists from the Christian music scene having anything worthwhile to say then you might like Derek Webb.I downloaded his last album "Mockingbird" for free from his website last year and it was one of the lyrically hardest-hitting and musically beautiful country rock records I'd ever heard. He used to be in the Christian band Caedmon's Call and now has released his fourth proper album "The Ringing Bell."
Lyrically - Think Freewheeling-era Bob Dylan meets pre-senile Larry Norman who then go and ask Martyn Joseph out to play.
Musically - The Beatles' Revolver and Teenage Fanclub. Like Mockingbird this is lovingly produced and is a joy to listen to.
Although not as hard-hitting as Mockingbird it still packs some punches. Here are the lyrics to
"This too shall be made right:"
people love you the most for the things you hate
and hate you for loving the things that you cannot keep straight
people judge you on a curve
and tell you you’re getting what you deserve
this too shall be made right
children cannot learn when children cannot eat
stack them like lumber when children cannot sleep
children dream of wishing wells
whose waters quench all the fires of Hell
this too shall be made right
the earth and the sky and the sea are all holding their breath
wars and abuses have nature groaning with death
we say we’re just trying to stay alive
but it looks so much more like a way to die
this too shall be made right
there’s a time for peace and there is a time for war
a time to forgive and a time to settle the score
a time for babies to lose their lives
a time for hunger and genocide
this too shall be made right
I don’t know the suffering of people outside my front door
I join the oppressors of those who i choose to ignore
I’m trading comfort for human life
and that’s not just murder it’s suicide
this too shall be made right
His music's quite hard to find in the shops so check out amazon or www.derekwebb.com
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