Nightbirde recognizes the habit of trying to fix things on one’s own. She sings, “Don’t know why I take the tightrope and cry when I fall.”

Túpac Shakur is widely recognized as a musical pioneer. On what would be his 50th birthday, it is time to recognize him as a prophet as well.

Bob Dylan, who turns 80 on May 24, expanded my musical and conceptual horizons from my college days onward.

“Living For The Other Side” is one way to stay conscious and alive, and to be reminded of what we are worshipping.

Marooned in his home in Connecticut much of last year, unable to tour or even safely hang out with his band, he sat in his home studio and put together a list of favorite church music, from “Amazing Grace” to 1970s-era Catholic folk Mass tunes to modern gospel songs. 

Williams came to write “Mary Lou’s Mass” to capture her feeling of suffering—and its apotheosis.