Music review — Mark and Sarah Tillman

Music review — Mark and Sarah Tillman

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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Meet the reviewer

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.