High Street High

If you're like me, you absolutely LOVE hymns for a million reasons -- their familiarity, the lyrics that always ring true, the chords when, on those rare occasions, you actually have four parts being sung -- but you find that some get plenty of playtime while others are left out in the cold...or that it is difficult to get someone enthused with hymns when they haven't grown up with them...or that hymns are mostly left to church services and seldom played as background music at home.

If any of this rings true, then you're going to love High Street Hymns. This group is a band out of Charlottesville, VA (yes, now you know the connection...), and they have wonderful new song arrangements and melodies that use the timeless lyrics of hymns. I am so excited to have found them and can't wait for them to produce much more music in the future.

You can preview a bunch of their music on myspace, but, trust me, their CD is well worth the price!

And this is where all the hard work happens: