Album Of The Day: 40 Acres by Caedmon's Call

Album Art of Caedmon's Call's 40 Acres album - A color photo of a lush, bright green photo of fields full of crops, with small dirt roads between them and some occasional trees, taken from a plane above, it looks like. You can see grids of fields in rectangles from the bottom left to the top right, and different fields are different colors, assuming because the crops are different. Printed over the top of the middle is black, handwritten-style lettering that is the band's name, and smaller in a white text is the album title to the right of it and below.

Ineffable: too great to be described in words. Released 27 years ago today, this is Caedmon's Call's third album and the first album I heard from this folk-rock band. The two songwriters and three singers of this 7-member band create mostly acoustic rock that's country-adjacent and speaks of God and daily life in an honest, vulnerable way. Songs like "Thankful" and "Daring Daylight Escape' are rollickin' jams, while songs like "Somewhere North" and "Table For Two" are quieter, though the lyrics on both the fast and slower songs are just as deep. Some songs lyrically seem like theological statements set to music while other songs seem like the songwriter trying to grapple with God's words, and I like that variety. And there's a Shawn Colvin cover in the middle of the album too. This album was one of my most-played in 1999 and 2000, has continued to be in rotation ever since, and is still my favorite album from this band.

Release Year: 1999
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