More Warren Barfield and other music

If you pre-order Warren Barfield's new album, you get an immediate free download of his incredible song "Love Is Not a Fight." The more Geddy and I hear of this guy, the more we like him. If you get a chance to see him live, you need to go...it puts him in a whole 'nother sphere. (Wish he would release some of his live stuff!)

Geddy has gone exploring and has come across MySpace pages for several of our local Christian bands. Check them out:

Everthird. Shannon Lovelady is one of our worship leaders at church, and though I am of course partial, I love his voice -- it's pretty unusual. Sounds like he should be fronting a metal band.

Living Anthem. Larry turned us onto these guys when they played a concert for his youth group. Since then, we've had the opportunity to see them a couple of times, and they are extremely talented.

Edenfield. Geddy and Larry saw them with Living Anthem last weekend, and though they're young, Geddy says they have a lot of potential. I really like the CD that came home with them.

Warren Barfield

This is how I know God has a sense of humor: Warren Barfield is one of the best live acts I've ever seen. He's a Christian performer and when he played at our church, he and his guitar made a joyful noise unto the Lord, all right. Were he a secular performer, he'd probably be at least as popular as Jack Johnson (and loads more entertaining, with his sense of humor and his blues/soul/funk spin). But God called him to something different, and there he is.

Not that I'm an expert, but I've seen Nanci Griffith, the Who, Rush, Paul McCartney, Neil Diamond, John Denver, Yes, Jimmy Buffett, Ringo Starr and some other fairly well-known and talented folks who put on terrific live shows, and Warren Barfield was every bit as entertaining. No techno garbage, no laser show, no wall of sound, not even an electric instrument -- just him and his guitar.

So buy his stuff, including the album that comes out in May. Don't believe how great he is? Check out his version of "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay." That should convince even people who aren't Christian music fans.