Saved! Vol. 1
Easter is coming, so it seems righteous to post the first in a series of great Christian music that, I hope, will lift the spirits of the believer, and make those who don’t believe wish they would, if...
View ArticleCaught up in the rapture
The world is ending today. In fact, it might end before I get to post this, or before you get to download these five songs. It’s the day of Rapture. And we tend to get a lot of those these days....
View ArticleSaved! Vol. 2 – The Soul edition
The second SAVED! compilation gets righteous on your asses with a churchful of glorious ’70s soul – and it does so without going for the easy option of all those Stevie Wonder songs about God being a...
View ArticleSaved! Vol. 3
With Easter approaching, here’s a third mix of songs that relate in some way or another to the Christian faith, following the Saved! 1 and Saved! 2 mixes. The first drew from verious ages and genres...
View ArticleSaved! Vol. 4
Another Easter, another mix of Christian music. This fourth volume of the Saved! series covers gospel, R&B, country and a hint of jazz in the 1950s and early ’60s. Some of the artists are...
View ArticleSaved! Vol. 5
It’s Easter, which signals the arrival of another Saved! mix. Last year’s mix covered the 1950s, with both gospel and secular acts doing their praising. This mix has only two gospel acts, The Rance...
View ArticleSaved! Vol. 6 – The Angels edition
Easter is coming and, as tradition demands, this means I’ll post another SAVED! mix. But this lot is not particularly riffing on religious themes, even though angels are very much part of religious...
View ArticleSaved! Vol. 7 – Soul edition
Some years ago I presented a militantly atheist friend with a collection of gospel songs. I thought I was being mischievous, for my friend regarded people with religion as mentally disturbed and their...
View ArticleAny Major Decade: Best of Saved!
Over the past years it has become a tradition to for me to post a mix of songs about the Christian faith in the week before Easter. Predictably, they tend to be the least popular of mixes, by number...
View ArticleAny Major Churches
I had no plans to post anything special for Easter, since the Saved! series had run its course. But the fire in the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, a place I’ve visited several times, moved me to make...
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