Music Lovin’ 3: The Ringing Bell

*Part 2 of a multi part look at some of my favorite albums from this year*

Derek Webb, The Ringing Bell

Since launching out on his own from Caedmon’s Call 5 years ago, Derek Webb has made his mark as a thoughtful, challenging artist capable of spiritually, socially and politically kicking you in the teeth while at the same time including himself in the indictment. 

This is his fourth solo studio album and each go-round he brings something different to the table.  Gone are the sometime pseudo-subtleties of songs like Mockingbird’s “My Enemies are Men Like Me” or Upside Down’s “I Repent”.  In its place are tracks such as “Savior On Capital Hill”, where Webb throws off all vagueries and, in comparing a politician to the devil, screeches “at the Pentagon bar they’re an inseparable pair.”

Favorite Lyric:
“There’s a time to forgive and a time to settle the score,
a time for babies to lose their lives,
a time for hunger and genocide,
And this too shall be made right”
-from This Too Shall Be Made Right

Songs worth iTunesing:
I Wanna Marry You All Over Again
Savior on Capital Hill
This Too Shall Be Made Right

~ by nathanrouse on August 27, 2007.