Crowdfunding Part 2; Does Patreon Replace Kickstarter? (2 of 3)
In Part One (of three) of this series we were introduced to our panel of experts; Terry Scott Taylor… Read the rest
John Thompson
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Phil Madeira Inducted Into Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame, Prepping Songwriting Camp
On April 29thsongwriter, artist, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, and side-man extraordinaire, Phil Madeira, was inducted into the Rhode Island Music … Read the rest
T Bone Burnett’s Invisible Light: Acoustic Space
Two strong early contenders for “best album” of 2019 dropped in the last couple of weeks. In many ways they … Read the rest
Chasing Larry, Finding Grace (Part 1 of 2)
In the summer of 1986, about one month after I turned 16 years old, I found myself having emergency toe … Read the rest
An Indie Renaissance? (Part 1 of 3)
How Patronage and Crowd-Funding are Proving to Be Silver Linings in Today’s Streaming Maelstrom
We’ve all heard it. … Read the rest
The True Tunes Interview with Gene Eugene (1992)
Disclosure:The following comes from Volume 4, Issue 5, of “True News” – the original name of the magazine True … Read the rest
Sharing Comfort Around Kasey Chambers’ Campfire
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
On the Campfire album and tour, Kasey Chambers provides a gathering place for the weary … Read the rest
OK, This Sounds Like Mumford & Sons
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
With Delta, the banjos (and biblical resonance) make a comeback.
There may be no modern … Read the rest
Dawes’ Pastoral Passwords
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
The band’s latest album encourages the most fundamental of connections.
It is not good for … Read the rest
Hearing a Deeper Groove in Leon Bridges’ Good Thing
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
Bridges’ latest may sound like sex, but it’s equally concerned with the soul.
The first … Read the rest
John Prine, Willie Nelson, and Greeting the Grim Reaper
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
Mortality means different things to these weathered American masters.
There’s a strange symmetry between the … Read the rest
How Record Store Day is Like Church
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
Record Store Day persists in a digital age because it reflects our desire for tangible, … Read the rest
Wrong Creatures, Right Sound: BRMC’s Musical Impressionism
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s latest leaves plenty of room for interpretation, religious and otherwise.
Thin … Read the rest
U2’s Unfashionably Hopeful Songs of Experience
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.com)
Songs of Experience may be full of big, grinning, sometimes dumb rock, but that doesn’t … Read the rest
All Things Work Together for Lecrae
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
Borrowing from Romans 8, Lecrae offers a meditation on the way grace confounds and delivers … Read the rest
With Dear Hate, Maren Morris Gets Biblical
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
Morris’ ballad locates the true root of violence, both in the world at large and … Read the rest
Tom Petty: Our Companion Into the Great Wide Open
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
Tom Petty was the voice of hope deferred, and longing fulfilled.
What a gut punch … Read the rest
Hammock’s Numinous Ministry of Presence
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
On Mysterium, Hammock surrounds those who mourn with a sonic cloud of witnesses.
We are … Read the rest
‘All Lives, You Say?’ Wilco and Psalm 139
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
Come on you troubadours, you modern psalmists. It’s time to sing.
Sometimes the events of … Read the rest
Glen Campbell’s Adios
By JJT (written for ThinkChristian.net)
Even in the face of Alzheimer’s, Campbell sung of dogged faith in a loving God.… Read the rest