music

Marry the background story with the powerful words of a song or hymn and the impact is doubled. This posting follows the three previously posted hymn stories. The history provides a window of insight into the anchors of men’s souls when times are perilous, overwhelming or just plain stressful.

Why is it that music can create such controversy yet mean so very much to you and me? Someone once told me that while “words speak to the mind, music speaks to our emotions.” That certainly seems true considering the variety of reactions to the changing styles of music, especially worship music, in the church today.

Where is this going, you may ask. What are these crazy cats doing? By all that is good and holy, where's the structure in this thing?

That's what you may think the first time you hear jazz.

My husband is a big Tom Waits fan. Tom's voice is unique; knarled and gravelly, true, raw, spinning elaborate and oblique musical tales.