Showing posts with label Phillips Craig Dean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phillips Craig Dean. Show all posts

Monday, January 16, 2017

Music Mondays

My wife had borrowed one of my old CD's and it was playing when I borrowed her vehicle over the weekend. It was a little known CCM band called Shaded Red. Their first album was a classic - in fact, outside of dc Talk, it is the perfect example of my musical tastes during the late 90's.
Anyway, that original album prompted me to buy their next (and only) label-produced album, Red Revolution.

I hadn't listened to it in years til my wife had, but it's most noteworthy song struck a chord with me listening to it again.

"When God Ran" is a worshipful retelling of the story of the Prodigal Son. It's actually a cover of an older hit by Benny Hester. Phillips, Craig, and Dean have also covered it, reintroducing it to a much larger fan base.

But here's the version I've come to love with a video behind it portraying the story itself: