Album Of The Day: All I Owe by Matthew Smith

his hair, mostly, with a bit of the top of his noses and eyes and his right ear at the very bottom, and we can see his shoulder of a brown coat of some type on his right shoulder. Behind him looks to be some golden and brown wallpaper. Over the top of the photo above his head is a dark brown rectangle that says the artist's name and the album title on separate lines. The rectangle has some decorative curved lines and leaf designs coming out of it.

Released 20 years ago yesterday, this is the first full-length album from folk/rock artist Matthew Smith. On most of these songs, he takes some old English-language hymn texts and sets them to new rock melodies for some theologically-interesting, more modern music for listening and worship at church. This album has some melodies you may recognize like "Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing" and "Nothing But The Blood", but most of the rest were both new lyrics and melodies to me. I really like this idea of setting hymns to more modern music and enjoy this album, though I definitely haven't listened to it enough; for some reason I don't choose to listen to these albums often, but I should more as the lyrics are better than a lot of modern worship music. Matthew Smith seems like a very nice man and I appreciate the music he has made. Matthew Smith recently talked about this album on The Album Anniversary Podcast with my friend Caleb. It's almost that time of year for my favorite Matthew Smith project, Your King Has Come, a special Christmas album with multiple artists.

Release Year: 2006
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