Bethany Dillon

Stop & Listen
Sparrow Records

Five years after her self-titled record ended 2004 as the top-selling female debut in contemporary Christian music, the attention then 16-year-old Bethany Dillon received is (re)validated in “Stop & Listen.”

Expertly produced, the album is a personal, confessional 11-song collection of catchy, soulful adult contemporary, bearing the influence of Dillon’s new husband, Shane Barnard of popular acoustic praise and worship duo Shane and Shane, on an acoustic remix of the record’s great lead single “Everyone to Know.” Highly recommended.