Music Unto The Lord is a collection of 34 original songs, scriptural settings, and instrumentals, written and arranged, played and sung, by a contemporary psalmist... me!

It’s my communion with my Creator, conversation with my heavenly Father, meant, so it seems, to be listened-in-on by some of you; God knows who, or why. It’s the expression of gratitude and complaint, Lord knows, a plethora of that, but it’s the honest cry of the psalmist’s heart, a kind of music to God’s spiritual ears. It’s the sorrow oozing out of our low estate and desperate plight, my common-to-man struggle and plea for valor, courage, and the like. It’s rejoicing in the occasional triumph, but praising in the everyday, the always. It’s the trail of crumbs from my larger life, my own Pilgrim’s Progress, my testimony and reflective light before men. Ultimately, it’s my thanks-giving for redemptive love, packaged without the affectation of neon broadway; rather, more the soft blue night-light glow of my own hallway. It’s my untrained, often feeble voice, cringing at its public nakedness, clinging to, and swept along by, instruments with voices of their own, good ones, entrées of various guitars and pianos, seasoned bytes of orchestral and percussive samples, all of it ever hoping to carry something of value some great, unfathomable distance. It’s the indomitable desire for excellence underpinned by Psalm 33:3, “Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully with a shout of joy.“

In The Balance is a selection of 15 tracks from the "Music Unto The Lord" recordings.

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    A Review of “In The Balance” by Dan Allison

    http://www.geocities.com/thefreshwind30/james.html