McGuire’s Law

Thanks to FoxyTunes, I stumbled across this YouTube video of Phil Keaggy. It is very encouraging to see what one guy (one very innovative guy) can accomplish, even as he advances in years. Maybe you’ll allow me the indulgence of sharing this if you make the link from “salvation army” to the bell ringers outside stores this holiday season? Enjoy!

When a new release comes out from one of my favorite artists with a clear “mobility” theme, I can’t let it slide by unnoticed. So, I’ve finally gotten around to building a playlist around Toby Mac’s Portable Sounds and have enough virtual miles with it to commend it on to you. As always, hopefully there’s some new discovery in here for you:

• Toby Mac: Portable Sounds
• Switchfoot: Oh Gravity!
• Nevertheless: Live Like We’re Alive
• Todd Agnew: Reflection of Something
• The Wailin’ Jennys: Firecracker
• Katy Bowser: All Of My Friends

By now, you know that I like a bargain, and what better time than the holidays to pick up some music bargains. So, some of the below aren’t very new and may not be new to you, but I’m enjoying them for the first time. Hopefully there’s something here that you haven’t heard before!

• The Wailin’ Jennys: 40 Days
• Sarah Harmer: I’m a Mountain
• Kenny Meeks: Unfaded
• Jars of Clay: Good Monsters
• Foolish Things: Let’s Not Forget the Story
• Bebo Norman: Between the Dreaming and the Coming True
• Caedmon’s Call: Chronicles

Just in time to bring some holiday cheer to your quest for a mall parking spot, here’s a collection of my favorite Christmas tunes. I hope you can find some new gems (unfortunately, I doubt you’ll be able tp pick any of these up at the mall).

• Jerry Read Smith and Lisa Marie Smith: One Wintry Night
• Carolyn Arends: Christmas, An Irrational Season
• Kim Hill: Real Christmas
• Your King Has Come
• City on a Hill: It’s Christmas Time
• The Roches: We Three Kings
• Happy Christmas: Volume 2

As you know by now (hopefully you’ve only had to read about it and not experienced it personally), I’m one of those people you see driving down the highway belting out a good tune. From time to time I like to share with you my favorite tunes for going mobile. And in honor of Thanksgiving, what better way to express thankfulness than with some old time hymns? Take a listen and feel free to sing along:

The ramp in new releases towards Christmas shopping season may have begun. I recently re-loaded with a bunch of music great for going mobile. Check it out:

• Leigh Nash: Blue on Blue
• Ayiesha Woods: Introducing…
• Leeland: Sound of Melodies
• Phil Keaggy: Jammed!
• My Other Band: Volume One

The full list is here.

If I were half my age and packing my car for a long drive back to university, here’s the playlist I’d likely queue up for going mobile:

• Eleventyseven – And the land of fake believe
• Five Iron Frenzy – Electric Boogaloo
• Flyleaf – Flyleaf
• Relient K – Anatomy of a Tongue in Cheek
• Toby Mac – Welcome to Diverse City

Going mobile in the summer requires music with a strong enough bassline to be heard with the windows down and a catchy enough tune to make you want to bop your head as you sing along (sending the sweat droplets flying…):

• Vigilantes of Love: Summershine
• Switchfoot: New Way to Be Human
• Murray Attaway: In Thrall
• Mathew West: Sellout
• dc Talk: Jesus Freak
• Ashley Cleveland: You Are There
• All Star United: All Star United

In honor of our annual bout with pollen, this month’s collection of music “great for going mobile” features some of my favorite “grassroots” artists. Enjoy!

• Alathea – What Light is All About
• T-Bone Burnett – Twenty Twenty: The Essential T Bone Burnett
  
• Poor Rich Folk – No More Than a Window
• Jonah Werner – Simple Man
• Silers Bald
• Mark Heard – Second Hand
• Kenny Meeks – Tell My Angel
• The Costello Show – King of America

Spring screams of new life and optimism that just begs rolling down the windows, cranking up the stereo and going mobile. I hope there’s something new here for your springtime playlist:

• The Wind and the Waves: Billy Sprague
• Graceland: Paul Simon
• Gonna Get It Wrong Before I Get It Right: Sam Ashworth
• Sunshine on Leith: The Proclaimers
• Sellout: Matthew West