Album Of The Day: What Matters Most by Wes King

Album Art of Wes King's What Matters Most album - The main background is a golden orange color, kinda the color of old paper. There's handwriting on them, and in the bottom right there's also some musical notation. In the bottom left there's also a faint image of a home. Towards the top, on the left it has the artist's name in somewhat large black text, and then a hand-drawn golden yellow rectangle and three old photos reproduced with a golden hue inside the rectangle. The left has a man standing in front of an old car, the middle is two young kids, and the third a young woman in front of a house on suburban street. Below the photos it says in smaller black text the album title.

Released 25 years ago today (or maybe earlier in this month), this is the sixth album by guitarist and singer-songwriter Wes King. Throughout the 1990s, he released five Christian pop/rock albums, and this was his last release. It was released on the very short-lived Word Artisan imprint of Word Records, with all other of the label releases being around the same time from Phil Keaggy. Wes King here crafts some personal songs about life as well as some songs about the Christian faith, and they are beautifully crafted with strings on many tracks along with Wes's excellent guitar work and vocals. The title track might be my favorite on this album. "Staring Down The Dog" gets into a country-rock groove too, which is fun. Like many of his other albums it's just a quick 10 tracks and 40 minutes, but it is a quality album that I don't listen to enough. Wes King has been posting on Facebook about a new album in the works, which is an interesting idea for someone who has not recorded any new music in a few decades as far as I'm aware. I hope it turns out well and that he's got some good things to say all these years later.

Release Year: 2001
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