Touching worship songs| Posted December 18, 2007
It surprises me that not many people know the music of Dave Lubben. At least the people I know.
Searching the internet for nice Christian music, somehow Dave Lubben came across. His song "Who You Are" touched me and made me curious about this man. Did he write more songs and how will they sound?
"A Place Called Surrender" is the album of Dave Lubben which I bought, just after hearing some songs and reading some lyrics. It's even for sale in a Dutch gospel webshop! How awesome!
"A Place Called Surrender" is filled with worship songs coming from the heart. And that's why they touch the heart. The songs are about different subjects concerning faith. About wanting to get to know the Lord ("Who You Are", "Speak To Me"), about worshipping and praising God ("Lord Most High", "King Of Nations", "You Reign") and about surrendering to Him ("Surrender", "Lay It Down").
Even before you put the cd in your stereo, your eyes will be focused on the story inside the case. Dave tells about his friend being fatally sick and despite of that he came to a concert of Dave (which is the live recording of this album). It made it very special and emotional for them and you can hear that listening to the album.
Some remarks about the album.
The first one: the repetition in the lyrics. When you've heard the first or first two verses of the song you know you won't hear new lyrics. They will be repeated all the way. That doesn't have to be negative: many worship songs got that. But on this album it sticks out for me.
The second remark is the comparable music and melody of two songs. Accidentally I have those two songs on my mp3-player. Because on the screen it displays the artist, the album title and at last the song title, I cannot see the title of the song before it plays for about 30 seconds. In the beginning I thought I accidentally had put one song twice on the mp3-player, because the intro of both songs are almost the same (the melody as well as the tempo). So buy the album, listen to "You Are The One" and "Lay It Down" and you'll find out.
Visiting Dave's website for more information and music won't help you. I also tried and there's only a picture of him(?) with his guitar and a link to his email address. Another search on the internet also doesn't show he produced more albums after "A Place Called Surrender", except "Surrender", an enhanced version of "A Place Called Surrender".
God has shown Dave Lubben which way to go in his life and probably that way doesn't mean that he will be writing a new album soon, despite I hope so.
Now you know why this album deserves my first review!
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