Bebo Norman Discusses New Album 'Lights of Distant Cities'
Bebo Norman will release his eighth studio album, 'Lights of Distant Cities', on 22nd October 2012. Co-produced with close friend and longtime live collaborator, multi-instrumentalist Gabe Scott along with Ben Shive (Andrew Peterson, Sara Groves) the album includes first single 'The Broken' and title track 'Lights of Distant Cities'.
"The last few years have been pretty intense - a long, slow progression, or digression, into a spiritual desert," Norman remembers, disclosing the process of writing songs in the dark of the desert. "I struggled to write anything hopeful. But I wanted to be true to the season I was in, so I simply wrote about the hopelessness I was experiencing."
With the same transparency that has attracted listeners to his lyrics for nearly two decades, Norman admits, "My tendency is to allow the darkness to override the hope I have in Christ. A few months prior to recording I experienced an intense season of recovery and renewal.
I finished nearly all of the songs after the recovery process. So you have desperation and recovery - darkness and light - represented within the same song."
'Lights of Distant Cities' Track Listing:
01. Lights Of Distant Cities
02. The Broken
03. At The End Of Me
04. Daylight Breaking
05. World Gone Dark
06. Sing of Your Glory
07. Collide
08. Wine From Water
09. Outside Her Window Was The World
10. Just A Glimpse
11. Go With You
