Category Archives: Music

White Winter Hymnal

By Chip Cain | Published April 4, 2009

This song by Fleet Foxes is all but old news yet there is something about this song and video that keeps me coming back. The video doesn’t follow the lyrics but that’s not uncommon so what is it about this that has caught my attention once again? It’s how perfectly the video matches with the [...]

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White As Diamonds

By Chip Cain | Published January 19, 2009

Alela Diane is a home brewed artist and by that I mean that she is not derivative of any other artist: at least none I know. Her music is Folk/Americana and often reflects the mood of homespun cloth and lonesome wolves at night. I realize that is a strange description for someone’s music so let [...]

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The Gift of The Unknown

By Chip Cain | Published January 12, 2009

As our culture changes, Walter Brueggemann has observed, we must restate eternal truths in order for them to remain truthful. For the faithful, the artistic imagination can safeguard the strangeness and newness of the gospel, preserving it from domestication by our ideologies and culture. This year, the Trinity Arts Conference theme urges us to curiosity [...]

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The Color Keeper

By Chip Cain | Published July 17, 2008

Here is something I stumbled across (isn’t that how we find everything?). I knew I had to share it here even though it is a small work as art goes, but with a big heart. The background music is by J Tillman from his “Minor Works” The Color Keeper from Grandchildren on Vimeo.

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Larry David Norman (April 8, 1947 – February 24, 2008)

By Chip Cain | Published February 26, 2008

I can remember seeing Larry Norman 34 years ago at a free concert in Lancatser, PA. It was held in Long’s Park and the small crowd who didn’t seem to know him any more than I did, were sitting on blankets thrown helter-skelter, enjoying the sun and sharing in small talk waiting for the show [...]

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Not a review; just a recomendation.

By Chip Cain | Published February 25, 2008

“. . . I set out to write an album that dealt with “family” . . . the songs began to pull in more complex directions . . . the songs began to hint at themes of inevitability, finality, not exactly pre-determination, but a sense of running out of choices, a sense of being at [...]

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Music To Sample

By Chip Cain | Published February 3, 2008

I have added a new Links category called Music to Sample. Click on the link and it should load up for you or you can right-click on the link to save it to your hard drive. These songs are freely shared by the artist. Some of the links may rotate off the list or simply [...]

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Bob Dylan

By Chip Cain | Published February 1, 2008

I do not know if Bob Dylan has been covered by more than any other artist, but there is a website that might prove it true. DylanCover.com has the most extensive list of Dylan covers anywhere in the world. Want to see pictures of every Dylan album made? It’s there. Have a favorite artist? If [...]

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Tina Dickow: Count To Ten

By Chip Cain | Published January 31, 2008

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG7mKwDEo4k&rel=1&border=1] On my travels through You Tube land I came across Tina Dickow’s music; a singer/songwriter with more depth than usual for You Tube. This video of ‘On The Run’ is from her new album Count To Ten. The album is expected to be released in April: you may sample the album at her web [...]

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