Wonderful
kj | 12/11/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I first heard Denison play the song Carry the Weight at a good friend's wedding & I loved it. The second time I heard him play it was at a house concert where he invited the 50 of us to sing along with him.
I fell in love with Denison's music when I heard Little Flowers on The Invisible Children movie.
The album Carry the Weight seems to continue on with all of the beauty, simplicity & joy of Denison's Safe Away & Are You a Dreamer. At the same time Carry the Weight is different. The songs & production are bigger sounding, Denison's voice is stronger & clearer. Perhaps Denison is more confident & comfortable with who he is & what he is all about.
Simply put I love this album. I rank it up their with some of my favorites like The Innocence Mission's Birds of my Neighborhood or Dave Brubeck's Time Out or The Jesus & Mary Chain's Darklands. These are albums I can listen to over & over again. Carry the Weight & records like this simultaneously calm me down & fill me with encouragement & inspiration to focus on my day & my task at hand.
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