Spur58

This is one of my favorite cds. If you're like me, you feel like lots of Christian music is the same as secular music, only it sounds bad. I am always on the lookout for great Christian music- I need it on my drive to work every morning. It puts my mind in a mode of worship and readies me for whatever is to come that day. So I look for music with solid lyrics and a sound that I don't cringe at.

A couple times at Austin Stone, Andy Melvin (the lead worship pastor) has been gone and a guy named Aaron has stood in for him. Aaron played the keyboard (I always love piano driven music) and after each time, I said, "That guy is great- I love his sound!" When Andy was at Austin Stone without me one time, he found out Aaron was in a band called Spur58 and bought a cd to put in my stocking for Christmas.

I looked at the jacket inside (always my first step with a new cd- I'm nothing if not thorough.) They were signed by Indelible Creative Group, whose mission statement is: "helping to build God's Kingdom by creating remarkable experiences through media products that are culturally and spiritually relevent." Where the lyrics usually are, instead I found the scenarios and situations that brought on the writing of each particular song. When I first listened to the cd I thought it was catchy but that the lyrics were a little simple. The more I listened to it, I began to feel a depth of truth in the lyrics that had at first seemed plain or overdone.

I've listened to this cd almost 100 times now. This morning I kept thinking one of the lyrics over and over again: "I was made for so much more than breathing in and breathing out so let me find my everything in you." I am sure to get pulled over listening to track 11, because I get so into it, by the end my foot is pressed to the floor and I'm going 85 in a 60. But I will weep at the end of this album every time, with track 12 repeating over and over, "It's never too late to start over."

Listen to it, love it, enjoy!