2012 in Music

Several years ago I started to drop songs into a folder in iTunes, songs that stood out to me for various reasons throughout the year. Some were brand new songs I had never heard of before. Others were ones that for various reasons I found myself returning to. I didn't grow up really listening to music, except in church, but somewhere in seminary music started to really matter to me, perhaps because it became another way for me to pray. I hope you enjoy my 2012 in music lineup. Drop me a post and let me know if you liked any of this, or even make a few suggestions of your own!

1. Led Zeppelin, "Good Time Bad Times"
2. Abney Park, "The Wrath of Fate"
3. Adele, "Someone Like You"
4. Buddy Guy, "Damn Right I've Got the Blues"
5. The Avett Brothers, "At the Beach"
6. Shelby Lynne, "Willie and Laura Mae Jones"
7. The Dave Brubeck Quartet, "Take Five"
8. The National, "About Today"
9. Lowercase Noises, "A Highway Shall Be There"
10. The Avett Brothers, "The Once and Future Carpenter"
11. All the Bright Lights, "Wilora Lake"
12. Reverend Jon Birch, "When I Lay My Burden Down"
13. Radiohead, "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushed Tin Box"
14. John McKenna Band, "Beautiful Dangerous"
15. The Album Leaf, "We Need Help"
16. David Bazan, "Curse Your Branches"
17. Yo-Yo Ma, "Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007: Prélude"
18. Shelby Lynne, "Heaven's Only Days Down the Road"
19. Matt Redman, "10,000 Reasons"
20. Cambridge King's College Choir, Peter Scorer, Stephen Cleobury & Tobias Sims, "Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31: XXIII. Dismissal and Blessing"
21. Kaki King, "Skimming the Fractured Surface to a Place of Endless Light"
22. Mumford & Sons, "Below My Feet"

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For 2012...

Okay, I need your help. What books, film, music, television, and any other art should I partake of in 2012? Could be brand new but also not. I enjoy exploring the depths of the past as well. Come on, give me some good stuff, people!