Description
Evening Shadows is the ninth solo album by the American singer and songwriter Chuck Girard of Love Song fame, independently released on Girard’s own label Seven Thunders Records in 2008.
The album opens with the title track, a song of breadth and elegant charm. What gives the song its stark late evening beauty is hard to nail down without making its art into science. The gentle soft-round-the-edges female backing vocals help, Chuck’s plaintive melodic vocals, echoes of Eric Carmen’s «All By Myself», and the wide airy instrumentation all help. But it’s probably the song’s message: the way it pulls back the curtain on heaven and lets us glimpse inside that makes the song so engaging. The Jesus Music veteran, still occasionally eulogised for his work with Love Song, isn’t prolific with his solo albums but they do span several epochs of music and Chuck still retains a youthful quality to his singing he once showed on the boyish lead vocals of The Hondells ’60s hit «Little Honda». Also in the opening song’s favour is the modern feel it has, excepting the lead guitar that flits around now and again. The first track moves seamlessly into the second track, «Enter In» and again the song invites us to step inside and look around the throne room of the Father. And so it goes with the rest of the 13 songs. Lilting yet arresting, restful yet engaging and worshipful yet challenging there is some magic being weaved here, and while you may easily be able to resist it if you are in the wrong mood, if you yield to ‘Evening Shadows’ spell, the album is truly rewarding. [Paul Poulton, Cross Rhythms, December 2010]
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CD tracklist:
01. Evening Shadows – 5:25
02. Enter In – 4:39
03. Oh Lord of Glory – 4:56
04. Deep – 4:22
05. We Sing Holy – 3:28
06. You Oh Lord Are Holy – 3:22
07. Jesus the Same – 3:28
08. Holy, Holy, Holy – 3:32
09. The Tear – 5:20
10. All I Need to Know – 6:45
11. 23rd Psalm – 5:45
12. Let the Lord Inside Your Heart – 4:11
13. Goodnight My Love – 4:06
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