Pilgrim Days: Indelible Grace II

Christ Community College Ministry (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 30, 2001)
• Original Release Date: April 30, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Indelible Grace Music
• ASIN: B000062SSG
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,270 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #66 in Music > Indie Music > Folk > Folk Rock

Editorial Reviews

If you were to pop this CD into the player and go about your chores, you would get the impression that this is an alternative folk group, playing music that mixes acoustic and electric instruments with the thundering bass and strong percussive background and the ragged vocals that have characterized 21st century folk.

But as you begin to listen more closely, you will notice something very different. That difference is the lyrics. For these aren’t the sloppy, slack-jawed one-liners of contemporary pop, but the formal structured lyrics of the hymnal, some of the best poetry of the ages, refashioned into a thoroughly modern sound. We have the likes of Cowper, Newton, Watts, Lyte, Gadsby, Wordsworth, and Redhead shouldering their way into the room in lumberjack shirts and wool caps.

The Christ Community College Ministry has accomplished something truly remarkable in this sequel to Indelible Grace, bringing new life to old songs, and the meld of traditional lyrics and new music has something to please everyone, both those who hunger for innovation in worship music and those who prefer the richness of hymnal language. Taste is a very personal thing, and the quality of music presented in these fourteen songs is consistently high, but I will risk naming a few favorites—Thy Mercy My God,” “What Wondrous Love Is This,” and the closing song, “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand.” By the time the refrain of the last song, I am bound for the promised land,” comes around, my bags are packed and I’m ready to go. --Worship Leader magazine, Fall 2001

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than the first?, March 8, 2002

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mtlimber (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

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The first Indelible Grace (IG) album was excellent, and I was delighted to see another had appeared. When I got it, I listened to it all the way through a few times and concluded I didn't like it as much, but I have since come to believe that I simply needed to learn the songs. Once the words became familiar enough where I could sing and meditate on them, I found myself liking this album even more than the first. Though there are some original contributions on this release (viz. the adaptation of Psalm 73 and the chorus of "Free Grace", both of which are excellent songs), most tracks are - true to the purpose of IG - old hymns set to music for a new generation, and some of them were unfamiliar to me entirely. Once the words sank in, however, they produced their intended effect.

The new music, as we have come to expect from their previous release, is professional and well suited to the words. When light-heartedness, joy and gaiety are required, they are supplied in music and voice, and when solemnity and penitence, they are likewise present. It is my experience that often the old hymn tunes - as much as I enjoy them - simply do not fit the mood required by the words and, in this day of personal electronics, which bring private, in-home and in-vehicle concerts to us regularly, and of electronic instruments and modern musical forms, which have significantly altered our tastes, the old tunes fail to engage our musical sensibilities. This problem is particularly unfortunate because it means we can't interact with the church triumphant, who have tested and passed on these great lyrics to teach us and to help us worship and rejoice in the Almighty and to remind us of the deep comforts offered in the gospel. IG has thus performed a great service in making these songs accessible to a people inexorably bound up in a technological age, and I heartily extend my commendation of the first album to the second in suggesting each for your use in public and private devotion.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Creative contemporary tunes for classic, theologically rich hymns, July 31, 2005

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Kathy F. Cannata "Rev. Dr. R. Cannata" (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews
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Creative contemporary arrangments for classic hymns. Theologically rich lyrics and compeling tunes.

All three Indelible Grace CDs are well-worth owning, but this one is my favorite.

If you like this, you may also want to try Park Slope Presbyterian's Kingsborough CD (2005), available from CD Baby. Also the Red Mountain CDs (like "Heaven"). Also excellent is Grace Church Seattle's CDs (also on CD Baby).

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great music!, April 9, 2005

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N. Heatley (Florida) - See all my reviews
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Having just seen Indelible Grace at a concert, I purchased this CD & I LOVE it! Great sound & lyrics with real meaning--what more could a music lover want??