Add To the Beauty

Sara Groves | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 4, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Columbia Records/Sony
• ASIN: B000BP2JHG
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,885 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Candidly truthful and compassionately hopeful, Sara Groves Add to the Beauty is a creative expression of faith and relationships. This is Sara s bridge building statement to fellow men pointing to the adventurous, transcending, life-changing Kingdom story. As a singer-songwriter, Sara offers an insightful and and accessible view into the complexities of the Christian life being carried out in a fallen world. Artist: Sara Groves Format: audio CD, one disc, 13 tracks Run Time: approximately 59 minutes Producer: Columbia Records/Sony Track listing:1. When It Was Over 5:44 2. Just Showed Up for My Own Life 4:35 3. You Are the Sun 5:15 4. It s Going to Be Alright 5:37 5. Add to the Beauty 4:13 6. Rewrite This Tragedy 5:10 7. Something Changed 3:45 8. How Can I Tell? 4:03 9. To the Moon 1:27 10. Kingdom Comes 4:58 11. Why It Matters 3:49 12. Loving a Person 3:51 13. When It Was Over (Reprise) 6:26

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back to the Future!, October 31, 2005

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Patrick L. Kruse (Annapolis, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Add To the Beauty (Audio CD)

Sara Groves has really shown both the depth of her heart and songwriting ability with her album "Add to the Beauty". Her idea was to write an about the kingdom of God and this is exactly what she did. She goes back to a sound closest to her "Past the Wishing" album, which if you haven't heard it, highlights mostly her voice with some piano background. That she was intelligent enough to know that this is what people wanted to hear and also was courageous enough to leave behind the direction in which she had been going is a great testament to her and to her faith. The same cannot be said of many artists in the music industry.

I give this album five stars because I think she earned every single one of them. This album is full of depth and puts more focus on God. If you lost any of your former hope in Sara Groves after "The Other Side of Something", I invite you to put "Add to the Beauty" in your car and go for a drive. You will be pleasantly surprised.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why it Matters, November 26, 2005

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Melanie Anne (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Add To the Beauty (Audio CD)

I saw Sara in concert a couple weeks ago and she ended her set with "Why it Matters" and "Add to the Beauty", in that order. I usually play those two in that order when I listen to this CD. Sara told a story of how some time ago she was struggling with all the yuckiness that's out there in this world (especially in view of being a mom and raising kids in this day), and she was wondering how anything she could do, like writing her songs, could really matter when there's so much darkness out there. A friend told her a story about a man who lived in Bosnia during the war, and while the awful sounds of war were going on outside, he sat in a building in the midst of all that, playing his cello. This really affected her (as it did me when she told it) and she saw how the man playing his cello was like a protest to the darkness in this world. She went on to say that she wanted to live her life in a way that "added" to what is beautiful in this world and didn't add to the darkness. Her marriage, the way she raised her kids, her music - it would all be a protest to the darkness and a chance for the light of the Kingdom to shine in this world. I haven't been so touched by a message in years. I'm a mother of 5 and often worry about the world my kids will go out into. Her songs filled me with hope and determination. I talked to her after the concert and broke into tears as I told her this. She was so understanding and down-to-earth, and she proved to be as wonderful in person as she seems to be in her music. And what a voice! Give me that fresh, real voice any day over the big-voiced divas.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I am completely fascinated with Sara Groves!, December 22, 2005

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Jason Hudson (Arkansas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Add To the Beauty (Audio CD)

I attended a Jars of Clay concert in November 2005 and Sara Groves was the opening act. I had never heard of her before. She sat down at her keyboard, played a couple of chords and then started singing. From the very first pure note out of her mouth, I was completely hooked on her music. This is real storytelling, not commercialized pop. This is probably the best Contemporary Christian album I have ever heard (I'm 32, and I've been listening to CCM since age 10). A beautiful woman writing and singing beautiful music inspired by the most beautiful of all things, God. That's Sara Groves.