Album Of The Day: In This Hour by Jill Phillips

Album Art of Jill Phillips's In This Hour album - A photo of a mixed media artwork on a dark blue surface with a dark blue background. The bottom is a book which looks to be made of different types of pages, some sticking up out of the book to look like it's kinda floating or fanned out. On the pages that are open, on the top of them is some hand-drawn paper trees sticking out of the pages. The trees are just branches, no leaves, and bare. In the middle, though, a woman with brown hair, a green shirt and a red dress is drawn on paper and kneeling down, placing a green plant with a yellow flower in the ground that is the pages of the book. It kinda looks like a pop-up book, but it looks like it's just a static piece of art not a bunch of pages in a pop-up book. In the top left, printed in orange text over the photo is the artist's name, then in the same font in white but italics below it is the album title.

"If you want to change the world / What you've got to do is show up, just show up." Released 15 years ago this past Sunday, this is the seventh album by independent singer-songwriter Jill Phillips. Like she does on all her albums, she creates beautiful pop/rock songs about daily life's beautiful and mundane moments, infusing her Christian faith into these lyrics. It's less about preaching the Gospel, I think, but more about expressing the truth of life as a Christian in this modern world. Many of the songs are co-written with her husband Andy Gullahorn and are about their personal relationship. These songs are simple pop/rock, singer-songwriter style for a quiet evening of contemplation. This is one of her albums I've not listened to as much as some of her other releases, but it's a good collection of 10 songs. I really appreciate Jill's songwriting and her voice is very beautiful.

Release Year: 2011
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