Want to win Jill Phillips’ new CD The Good Things?
My ole college buddy Jill Phillips released a new record The Good Things.
If you’ve never heard Jill’s music, you’re missing out. She’s one of those singer/songwriters who communicates life and all of its beautiful and difficult moments with grace and melody.
Jill Phillips is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter who got her start in the business after graduating from Belmont University in 1998. Her guitar based folk-rock sound combines with rich, insightful lyrics that deal with age-old topics in new and fresh ways. Her self-titled debut album on Word Records was produced by grammy-award winning songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick (“Change Your World” recorded by Eric Clapton) also known for producing such artists as Amy Grant, Garth Brooks and Susan Ashton.
After touring extensively with Caedmon’s Call and Bebo Norman, Phillips decided to step out and record her next album independently. Produced with Matt Stanfield (Plumb) and Andy Gullahorn, God and Money received critical acclaim and helped Phillips to be named CCM magazine’s reader’s choice for Independent Artist of the Year in 2002.
Phillips’ newest release, The Good Things, releases December 2, 2008 and centers around themes of family, relationships and faith. “This record feels very personal to me”, she says. “There is a song about marriage, a song for my children, a song about a lack of communication with a friend, things that are huge in my life but things I have never found a way to write about. Maybe it just wasn’t the right time, but after the birth of my son in 2007 I felt this new urgency and passion to write about these things. Each opportunity I have to make a record is a gift and I really wanted to give this one my all.”
And then, TO WIN JILL’S NEW CD “The Good Things”…
…leave a comment with the name of the artist and album that’s currently making you feel something real.
TO PURCHASE JILL’S RECORD, GO HERE!
You’ll love this record. Promise.
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My current favorite is House of Heroes – the end is not the end – The lyrics are carefully written and cut straight to my heart.
“I see a new day coming” (from the song Field of Daggers)
Coldplay. Pretty much all of their albums.
currently Im digging one of my OLD CD’s…BOSTON’s Greatest Hits
Brenton Brown’s album “Because of Your Love”…pure, sound, worship for the church.
I’ve been digging Sara Groves (pretty much always have) but I so appreciate her honesty as she sings about opening her eyes to the injustice of this world. Challenging, inspiring, humble. Every day a different lyric makes me stop and think.
Ummm…. The last time I listenend to anything other than veggie tales or some other kids music. I have no idea.
I’ve been in a Need to Breathe, Daylight phase.
PHOSPHORESCENT
beach house
mumford & sons
p.j. harvey
iron&wine
“Second Story” by Jon Troast
Currently Meiko. 🙂
Keep No Score by Sleeping at Last
also Lovely Is Death by Gabriel Wilson
Jon Foreman Fall EP
The entire Selah box set.I listen to it everytime I am in the car.It Never gets old!
Two songs that are speaking to me right now…
Her Morning Elegance by Oren Lavie (“she fights for her life as she puts on her coat”)
Weighty Ghost by Wintersleep (a Canadian band)
But in terms of albums that make me feel something real:
Enter the Worship Circle’s latest album “Fourth Circle” as well as “Chair & Microphone Vol. 3,” especially the first track, “You Are Mine.”
Lyrics like:
Maybe I don’t have the strength,
Maybe I don’t have the faith,
You brought me here in forty years,
When I know this trip should take a week.
I’ve shed my tears and shed my blood,
I’ve been ransomed by the flood,
And winter steals my songs away.
In all of this I’ve come undone.
Well, they undo me…
Of course, all of these are rivaled by Jill Phillips’ “I Am” or “Dry Town” or “Steel Bars” for their undo-me-completely power.
“Motions” by Matthew West is rocking me at the moment.
Anything by Caedmon’s does it for me.
Brooke Fraser – Albertine
Ray LaMontagne’s album Trouble has me hooked of late.
So very very good.
The Avett Brothers – Emotionalism
Third Day Revelation. Songs like Born Again and Run to You.
“I want the world to turn because of love and mercy to find each of us, doing what we can to just believe.”
Oh Man. Shane and Shane. Their live album. I just sing my lungs out and worship… I love their harmony.
Michael W. Smith: WORSHIP – love it!
Currently been listening to Sigur Ros. Great Great artist, even if they ont speak English
Jeremy Riddle: “The Here and Not Yet”
I’ve really been enjoying Rue Royale’s album.
Sufficient by Bleach
Sara Groves – Add to the Beauty
Kelly Clarkson still. I blast it in my car as I go back and forth to work. Helps get me through the rough days!
The 4 CD set called Timeless: The Selah Collection, particularly the song, Rescue Me. I love this collection of old hymns and new songs!
Matthew West – The Motions
“The Motions” by Matthew West. I am struggling in journeying on my faith walk and it’s a constant encouragement to feel His passion inside of me.
She is truly one of my all-time favorite artists.
Andrew Peterson’s “Love and Thunder”
(‘The Silence of God’)
Ingrid Michaelson. Haunting, beautiful and deep lyrics.
As sad as this may sound, I’m loving Andrew Peterson’s Slugs, Bugs, and Lullibys! My little girl LOVES it!! It’s so fun to watch her little mouth move with the words to the songs!
On another, somewhat related note, we just saw Andrew Peterson in concert last week and were very sad to see Jill was not going to be there. I think she was on a different tour, maybe? Bummer!! I must say I instantly thought of you and Jessica and wondered if ya’lls paths had crossed with Andrew!
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David Crowder Band, all albums, but particularly the Remedy album right now. Song: Glory of it All.
Selah Collection – LOVE.IT!
Big Daddy Weave – What life would be like. I LOVE his sound and it inspires me to be a better person.
tobyMac, Lose My Soul is the song I look most forward to hearing right now on the radio. So catchy and it speaks to my soul and think it can speak volumes to so many lost people out there. I’m a big Mandisa fan as well and am thrilled to see her doing well after Idol.
Dying Star by Jason Upton
His music is incredibly real and captures the heart of God so well. My favorite songs are Come Up Here and I Will Wait.
The Mamma Mia soundtrack. For some reason it makes my little guy calm down instantly!
I love Innocence Mission right now (well, always really). They are wonderful, and they have their own sound, which I truly enjoy.
Hmm… currently discovering Over the Rhine, particularly their 2003 release – Ohio.
Oh, and the new Eagles cd… geez, the theological depth of “Long Road Out of Eden” and “Frail Grasp on the Big Picture”!
Francesca Battistelli’s My Paper Heart. I blogged about how her song “I’m Letting Go” changed me… er, rather, was God’s avenue of changing me! See the post here: http://mom-e-memoirs.blogspot.com/2008/05/im-letting-go.html
DC Talk……What if I Stumble 🙂 I really like the intro..reminds me how i may come across to others.
Natalie Grant- I will not be moved.
I love MercyMe’s song “bring the rain” It has helped me so much when going through tough times.
U2 “No Line on the Horizon,” especially “Breathe” and “Magnificent.”
also, a TON of Rich Mullins music has really ministered to me and many of my youth and youth workers, as we lost one of our students last week in a drowning accident.:(
Linford Detweiller – Unspoken Requests
It’s so hard to pick just one! I just got a hold of Brooke Fraser’s “Albertine” and have been keeping it on repeat for the past week… amazing!
I’m going to try out Diana Krall’s new album tonight while I make risotto.
Just found your blog and I love that you are promoting your friends CD, it looks great and I am interested in hearing her stuff.
My heart keeps leaning to Francesca Battistelli’s song Free To Be Me, because it describes what I so often used to think and what my little sister is starting to see in her life.
Blessings to you,
Tori
I’m LOVING Kari Jobe’s new CD and especially the song,”I’m Singing”.
LOVE her!!
THX!! Abi Byrd
http://www.babyhomepages.net/jebbie
LOVE Eva Cassidy. Anytime… any place.
A current “moves-me” song: Be Still My Soul by Selah… “The waves and wind still know His voice…”
I am currently loving Taylor Swift’s “Change.” There’s just something about it that makes my spirit feel like soaring.
Also Brooke Fraser—Albertine.
Anything by ‘Selah’. A friend introduced me to them and the are truly inspirational to me. Looking forward to hearing yours.JKerben
Any Third Day album always resets my mind and brings me back where I need to be. Selah also does the same trick!!! I look forward to hearing this album! Love In Christ~ Melissa
Five for Fighting, American Town
Very poetic lyrics with great music, instruments, singing. Not faith-based, but still makes me think.
Natalie Grant, “Our Hope Endures”
Still waiting two years after accepting God’s call to to adopt teenage siblings from Russia…So many obstacles, but God continues to overcome…It’s hard to keep hoping sometimes, but we know He is still in the midst of it and pray that they, too, continue to hope.
The current song is “I Found God” by the Fray… love it.
Current album is a little bit of an old one… Casting Crowns, Lifesong. Love it.
My current favorite is Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman. I could listen to that album for days.
Copeland: You Are My Sunshine
Great stuff, anytime day or night.
David Crowder is speaking to me – I love the song All thet I can Say.
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i am loving john wallers “priestly blessing”.
I am lovin All That I Can Say by David Crowder Band.
In all seriousness (and you know I don’t go there often), Todd Snider’s “Anywhere” makes me cry…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd-eVx3YBwI
or here…
http://play.napster.com/track/12842216
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Sara Groves, “Add To The Beauty”
I could listen to it for hours and hours…
Hillsong’s “This Is Our God”, especially Desert Song
My current favorite is Brad Paisley’s hit on the radio called “Then” It just gives me the chills.
i love sal. 150!
Jim Brickman – Love Songs and Lullabies
Michael Buble – It’s Time
Rich Mullins – songs
World Wide Message Tribe – Frantik
i have been listening to coldplay a lot recently. thanks for the contest!
I am liking “The Captive” by Braddigan. I saw him at the National Youth Ministry Conference, and I have been really enjoying his music (and his work in Nicaragua).
Sara Groves “The Long Defeat”
Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida” (“Death and All His Friends,” specifically). Killer.
Buddy Greene – rootsy Gospel music with awesome melodies and moving lyrics.
All his CDs are great, but I love his double CD set that features the heartbreaking “Looking for Suzanne”.
I have been listening to the “Buckingham Nicks” album lately. It’s before they formed “Fleetwood Mac”. I purchased the vinyl about a year ago and have rediscovered it. it feels like they were being real when it was being recorded. Very interesting listen…
dancing to waterdeep’s _pink and blue_ album right now.
She looks so sad. I guess the good things aren’t so good after all.
is this still open?