Sitting in the southbound-backseat, en route to the most anticipated event of the month (if not the year), my mind briefly went back to how I’d ended up there. The saga began over a month before the fateful night that ushered in a fourteen-day-early Christmas celebration.
My friend (and personal convert to Andrew Peterson), Mason drew [...]
It is fairly safe to say that as each Advent season rolls around, so too will another odfm post about Andrew Peterson and his magnificent album, Behold the Lamb of God. This is that post.
The fact that I’m a huge fan of Christmas music is no secret. As each Halloween passes, I’m tempted to Christmasize [...]
This week a show came through town that my friend Scott convinced me to attend based on his rave review of one of the band’s (The Low Anthem’s) live shows. The Low Anthem was indeed able to come through on Scott’s boasts with a strong showing at the Granada this past Wednesday night.
Blind Pilot headlined [...]
Earlier this year I saw Andrew Bird in concert and I was reeling for the two weeks that followed, in awe of the amount of talent crammed in to that man’s body. Last week I came upon this video, which was almost equally inspiring. Go ahead and click “play” and take the 9-minute journey… maybe [...]
My good friend Matt (known in certain households as “Att-Graham”) has been writing songs celebrating Wednesdays for the past several weeks. It came to my attention last night that while I’ve been aware of these gems for some time, not everybody on Earth has. My friends, this should not be.
So that, paired with the fact [...]
Here’s a video from the trip that started it all (and in that sentence, “it all” refers to “online diary for the masses”). Short, sweet, and bound to brighten your day at least a little bit.
I unashamedly love Christmas music. Even working in a retail store that plays it non-stop from Black Friday to Christmas Eve can’t hinder my adoration for music of the Season. That isn’t to say that I love all Christmas music though. Chipmunks singing anything and “Silver Bells” sung by anyone have generally never been enjoyable [...]
About a year ago I heard a story on NPR about a project the Washington Post had recently conducted. The premise was both simple and brilliant: Have a world-class musician, wearing plain ol’ street clothes, play some of the finest music ever written on a multi-million dollar instrument in a busy Washington DC subway terminal… [...]
My friend, my friends! I have pretty great news for you. Andrew Peterson’s got a new album, Resurrection Letters Volume II, coming out next month, and you can pre-order it now (2 copies for $15… pretty good). As neat as that is, it’s not even the “pretty great news”.
Here it is: You can stream the [...]
Among the intersections in the Dallas area that I’ve enjoyed unfair amounts of fun over the past few years, few are able to compete with the Bermuda-grass-filled area between Addison Circle and Spectrum Drive in Addison!, Texas.
Eleven months ago I blogged about the wonders of July Jazz, a weekly set of free summer concerts in [...]