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By: The Lower Lights: A Hymn Revival Volume 2 « MCQESQ

The Lower Lights: A Hymn Revival Volume 2 « MCQESQ — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 10:47:56 +0000

[...] still spiritual and perhaps even more meaningful than the original arrangement, at least to some. We’ve talked about them before, when their first album came out. I’m happy to let you know that their second volume of hymns [...]

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Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:49:53 +0000

By: MCQ

MCQ — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:50:56 +0000

Forget the bongos. It would be nice to just have a guitar or other instrument other than the organ/piano/violin that we always hear. I don’t think God ordained only those instruments as acceptable.

By: annegb

annegb — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 21:08:20 +0000

I love a CD I made of Susan Boyle, Jackie Evancho and Celtic Woman, for my spiritual personal listening in the car.

I was thinking the other day I wish I was the choir leader because we would be doing some kick-*** songs. Maybe with bongos. I’d get released, but it would be great while it lasted.

By: MCQ

MCQ — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:29:05 +0000

Yes please Sarah! We will review it here and, assuming we like it, would love to help promote it. Thanks for the offer and please contact me at markcquinn at q dot com if I don’t contact you first. Glad you stopped by.

By: Sarah Wiley

Sarah Wiley — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:54:30 +0000

Hi! Not sure if you’ll ever see this comment, but I am with The Lower Lights and we just wanted to thank you so much for this great review and testimonial of our first album. We are getting ready to release our next album and wondered if you’d be interested in helping to review/promote it as well. Please contact me if you’d like me to send you a promo copy.

Thank you,
Sarah
info@thelowerlights.com

By: MCQ

MCQ — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:25:52 +0000

Amen, brandt!

By: brandt

brandt — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:23:54 +0000

Even though it looks like commenting on this post has died down a bit, I figured I’d add my thoughts for anyone who stumbles upon this.

First, I purchased “A Hymn Revival” by The Lower Lights, and couldn’t have been happier. It’s available on Amazon via direct MP3 download, and I’ve been listening to it for the past couple of days, and can’t get enough.

Second, I also picked up Susan M’s suggestions of The Sabre Rattler’s “Twixt Me and the Peaceful Rest,” and by golly, they were nice enough to send me a little email with a thank you note in it! I thought it would have more a country twang to it (based on some of the comments), but it’s definatley got an alt-folk ring to it. It reminds me a bit of bands like Mumford and Sons. It’s got a much more upbeat tempo to it, and I think it does a good job of keeping the spirit of the hymns.

I also picked up Clayton Pixton’s “Hymns Anew” album from Amazon’s MP3 service. Clayton and Skye do the bumper music to Mormon Stories, and he’s got a great talent for giving a new view on some great classic hymns (I can’t get enough of his rendition of “Adam-ondi-Ahman” and “Come Come Ye Saints.” Another great album.

Any more suggestions you folks have, I’d love to devour them. I’m finding that some of the hokey overproduced Deseret Book artists just don’t do it for me…

By: Janice Moorcroft

Janice Moorcroft — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:08:41 +0000

Hi Seth,
It has to be better than the music at my church on a Sunday morning. My hubby’s comment after the Christmas Day service
was “Maureen hits all the right notes-just not in the right order!”

By: MCQ

MCQ — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:18:04 +0000

Here you go, Mark B.

http://www.accordionlessons.org/

You’re welcome.