Album Of The Day: Your King Has Come by Various Artists

Album Art of the Your King Has Come album - A photo on a dark background of a weathered old book with photos. The photo it is open to is a black-and-white photo of a baby's hand, with a gold double border around the photo. Arranged on the page around the photo are some straw and sticks and some other other items. Printed on a card laid on top of the page is the words 'your King has come', and there is shown some other handwritten pages nearby.

Released 25 years ago this past October, this album is in my Top 5 Christmas albums of all time. Matthew Smith and his friends put together a beautiful collection of songs to celebrate the Christmas season, both songs new and old. Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken open it with a new folk melody to "Come Thou Long Expected Jesus". Matthew Perryman Jones, Jill Phillips, Mandy Ihrig and Billy Cerveny deliver beautiful renditions of fairly common carols. I really love the middle of the album with Jeremy Casella's guitar-heavy original "Joyful Fire". And then Andrew Osenga does a very interesting version "Of The Father's Love Begotten"; it's a bit sad and is mostly just electric guitar and vocals, and some of my family doesn't like it, but I find it unexpected and fun. The best part is Matthew Smith's version of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" that leads right into his original response to the hymn, "Your King Has Come", a beautiful new modern song celebrating Jesus's birth. Katy Bowser also sings a beautiful variation on the translation of "Silent Night" called "Still The Night". If you're looking for some independent, folk-rock music to get you into the Christmas spirit, look no further than this album.

Release Year: 2000
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