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Title:
We Cry Out
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Album
Released:
24 Aug 2010 (US), 18 Nov 2010 (UK)
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When doing some research on Jeremy Camp's new worship album We Cry Out, I realised via the internet that not many people were impressed that another singer/songwriter was recording a worship album with covers of well known worship songs. I can understand why people get a bit funny about this, as they would rather the artist produce new songs that he has crafted themselves, but I see it more as a tool for people to use in times of personal worship.
We Cry Out has well known songs like Tim Hughes' Jesus Saves and Matt Redman's You Never Let Go which...
Read More When doing some research on Jeremy Camp's new worship album We Cry Out, I realised via the internet that not many people were impressed that another singer/songwriter was recording a worship album with covers of well known worship songs. I can understand why people get a bit funny about this, as they would rather the artist produce new songs that he has crafted themselves, but I see it more as a tool for people to use in times of personal worship.
We Cry Out has well known songs like Tim Hughes' Jesus Saves and Matt Redman's You Never Let Go which all sound great, but what I have realized from playing these songs is that you get used to hearing the original versions of certain songs and when you hear someone else singing them sometimes something doesn't sit right.
I have always found that when someone records another persons track you either love or hate the new version, but what I found with this album was that all the songs on here are as good as their original versions. Jeremy Camp takes these songs and makes them his own, singing them with passion and trying to do these great songs some justice, which he does very will.
The negative point of this album was seeing a certain song in the track-listing, it was the well known songs Mighty to Save. I love this song, really powerful moving lyrics and music written by the guys at Hillsong, this year it was also covered by Newsboys on their latest album. My biggest worry is, does this world need another version of this classic song? The answer is probably no, yet this version of the song isn't bad, again Jeremy's vocals really push the track forward, but it is just another version of a great song.
For all who were worried this was a quickly produced album, put together as a stop gap between Jeremy's own studio albums - you have nothing to worry about, the album sounds brilliant, top quality musicianship with great vocals. For me I really enjoyed the tracks I didn't know that well or didn't know the originals, for example I really enjoyed listening to and learning The Way and Overcome.
Overall you will either love or hate this album, I personally thought the album at times had some great moments, with Jeremy doing some of these songs justice, yet on the other hand there was a side of me that would of rather heard some new material from this very talented songwriter.
Review by Jono Davies
LTTM 3 out of 5 Stars
Standout Tracks
The Way
You Never Let Go
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