Rachael Lampa, Over The Rhine, Building 429 on new album based on the Psalms.

ONE TIME member of the successful CCM duo LaRue, Philip LaRue spoke recently about the new multi-artist album he has produced based on Eugene Peterson's popular paraphrase of the Bible, The Message. 'The Message Psalms' features vocal contributions from Rachael Lampa, Over The Rhine, Building 429, Jimmy Owens, Venus Hum, Chris Rice, Kendal Payne and Shawn McDonald. The album, co-produced by LaRue and Monroe Jones, tackles what LaRue believes is missing in a lot of today's Christian music. He told CCM magazine, "The album comes the depth of what it means to be a Christian. In the Psalms are all the highs and lows. In Christian music we sing and write about a lot of the highs - the mountaintop experiences - but not about the desert seasons as much. Yes, there's joy, but there are also times when we're just holding on, when we cry out to God. We hear a lot about God being right there, but not as much David's cry of 'Don't remove your Spirit from me!'" CR

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