This one popped up in my feeds and I thought I’d share it with y’all. When I left Christianity many years ago, one of the things that I took with me was a love and appreciation for the music of Sam Phillips and Mark Heard. I met Phillips when she was an up and coming “contemporary” Christian musician and went under a different moniker. All I remember is that she seemed to quickly outgrow her Christian pop music persona. There was something in her music and Mark Heard’s music that continued to speak to me, even as I removed my own fundamentalist/evangelical persona and tried to figure out what the hell I was supposed to be doing with this life. I didn’t identify with the World v. The Christian dichotomy but I definitely identified with the struggle of still trying to make sense of things. They were familiar voices that still spoke to the values I held as I made my way on my own sojourn away from the church. It might not sound like it was any fun, but it was meaningful and important to me during those years. Enjoy.
Sources:
- Sam Phillips: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert posted by NPR Music (2009-04-07), https://youtu.be/ANOrllutAhs?si=8hWHhIxs4QjFWYdX
- Song On A Late Sunday Night by Joe Bustillos (2003-05-05), https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2003/05/song-on-a-late-sunday-night/
- Meditation Mondays: When the Art Stops Fitting the Box by Joe Bustillos (2023-06-19), https://josephbrucebustillos.com/2023/06/meditation-mondays-when-the-art-stops-fitting-the-box/
- Sam Phillips (website), https://samphillips.com/
- The Mark Heard Tribute Project, http://markheard.net/index.html
Tags: live music, mark heard, NPR Tiny Desk Concert, sam Phillips, video Mondays
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