Cat No:
CSCCD1165
Release Date: 30 August 2019
Label: Continental Song City
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8713762011659
Genres: Rock Singer Songwriter
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Description
Verses is the European version of Verse by Verse, the 8th album by internationally-acclaimed musician and artist Caroline Herring, originally a 22-song musical meditation for our toxic, divisive times.
"I started out trying to write an album in response to the Trump moment," Herring says, "something in the great tradition of protest and political songs of the American folk tradition." But nothing came to her. The unending ugliness, the continual outrage on social media, the increasing violence, the 24-hour news cycle - it was impossible for her to find any meaning in it.
Herring turned instead to another tradition, one rooted in the ancient texts of the Psalms and the Christian Gospels. Selecting passages full of wisdom, longing, and love, she set the words alongside simple, haunting melodies designed to be sung in community. Working with Nashville engineer Shani Gandhi and guitarist Steven Sheehan, she recorded the songs over three days in the former home studio of Allison Krauss. She returned several months later for more recording, this time to Zac Brown's Southern Ground Studios, with her harmonizing children in tow.
"This project is my art offering to these times," says Herring. Verse by Verse/Verses is a statement of Herring's belief in the mysterious power of ancient texts to give insight, comfort and strength in times of trouble. -
Tracklisting
- 1. What Sweeter Music
- 2. One Day
- 3. You Are No Longer A Stranger
- 4. My Soul Thirsts For God
- 5. How Shall I Describe The Kingdom Of God?
- 6. Let Us Approach The Throne Of Grace
- 7. My Heart Is Not Proud
- 8. Joy Comes In The Morning
- 9. Genias Psalm
- 10. Let The Little Children Come To Me
- 11. You Will Seek Me
- 12. Whatever Is True
- 13. Therefore We Will Not Fear
Disc 1
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Blonde On The Tracks
Emma Swift
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Muscle Shoals
Eileen Rose
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Annamania
Anna Elizabeth Laube
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Live Is A Carnival
The Weight Band
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The Alders & The Ashes
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Modern Tense
King Tree & the Earthmothers
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That Kind Of Girl
Amy Speace
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What In The World
Michael McDermott
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Lantana
Caroline Herring
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Camilla
Caroline Herring
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Golden Apples Of The Sun
Caroline Herring
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