Album Of The Day: Floodplain by Sara Groves

Album Art of Sara Groves's Floodplain album - Across the middle, an illustration of a river with a city on the left side and fields on the other, with a large double-decker steel bridge going across the river. The river is very wide and it looks like it is flooding the city and fields on both sides, though buildings can be seen in the water on both sides. Up and down the river are riverboats with their steaming smokestacks, and many buildings also have smoke coming from their chimneys. The river stretches to the bottom of the frame and the sky is also a hazy blue-gold mixture. Up in the sky is printed the artist's name in small white print in the center, with the album title in much bigger font below it. The bottom of the image has light-colored hairlines in a chevron pattern on occasion, a hairline at the middle and getting thicker as they go down, making a bit of an arrow pointing down effect.

Released 10 years ago earlier this month, this is the 11th album from Sara Groves, one of my favorite singer-songwriters of all time. Like on her other albums, she does an excellent job of writing very personal songs about life, love and more in her unique style which is steeped in religion and culture. As she is a resident of the river town of St. Paul, Minnesota, Sara found inspiration for a few songs from the Mississippi River which winds through St. Paul and has been a huge force for building life in the area throughout the past. This is 12 great songs, and whenever I listen to this album, I am struck by how I need to listen to this more and really listen to her lyrics, because they are always profound when you really give them a close listen.

Release Year: 2015
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