Mark and Sarah Tillman
Morning Sun, Rising Tide
Integrity Music, 2018
It took five years, but husband and wife North Carolina worship leaders Mark and Sarah Tillman have crafted a beautiful follow up to their 2013 debut. And by crafted, I mean crafted. “Morning Sun, Rising Tide” isn’t just pretty, it’s original — a breath of hip, creative fresh air for praise and worship. The instrumentation may be unorthodox for the genre — is orchestral folk a thing? — but the message is as orthodox as it comes. Here’s the opening for the fantastic second track: “You laid your body down / Where earth and dust could see. / You broke your skin apart / Like bread for us to eat. / You walked up to your end / Wearing the burden of man. / Into your death you sang / ‘This grave won’t hold my name.’”
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Jeremy Henderson reviews music for The Alabama Baptist. He is co-host of Rich and Jeremy in the Mornings on Wings 94.3 FM, editor of The War Eagle Reader.
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