The Smoak House

Some discussion recently with a friend of ours about finding good Christian music sparked my interest in putting together a Christian music guide. I kind of took my inspiration from iTunes. The iTunes Store features what it calls Essentials. Essentials exist for everything from Christian rock to love songs to friendship songs. They then split the Essentials collection into 3 parts. The first part gives songs that make good introductions into whatever category the Essential is about. The next delves deeper and the final part goes even further. I plan to do the same with my 3 part Christian guide.

Finding full versions of most of these songs on the internet would be difficult. However almost any song you can think of can be found as a 30 second clip on iTunes. So I have linked each title to the iTunes store. If you have iTunes installed, clicking the title will take you to the iTunes Store page for that title and you can listen to it and/or buy it. But in case you do not have iTunes installed I have linked the album names to Amazon so that you can hear clips and/or buy the album there. Unfortunately a couple of the albums do not have clips available on Amazon but you can still purchase the album.
I realize that everyone has different tastes so I have tried to choose music that might appeal to a wide variety of tastes. However there is no way I could possibly cover every genre out there. Furthermore some of my own preferences are bound to find there way into this so I can not claim that this guide will be completely unbiased. But hopefully the music featured here will be a springboard and help some of you get started in finding some of the great music that’s out there by Christian artists. For each artist I have listed three songs that I believe represent their style. And I recognize that for each artist there may be albums of theirs that I just have not been exposed to, so I know that there may be some songs or albums that I overlook or just am not able to include for whatever reason, so feel free to leave comments recommending some music that you like.

PFR

• Merry Go Round from the album “Great Lengths”
• The Grace of God from the album “Great Lengths”
• That Kind of Love from the album “Goldie’s Last Day”

Smalltown Poets

• Everything I Hate from the album “Smalltown Poets”
• Monkey’s Paw from the album “Smalltown Poets”
• Every Reason from the album “Third Verse”

Jeremy Camp

• Tonight from the album “Beyond Measure”
• Take You Back from the album “Restored”
• Walk By Faith from the album “Stay”

Common Children

• Delicate Fade from the album “Delicate Fade”
• Eyes of God from the album “Delicate Fade”
• Indiscreet from the album “Delicate Fade”

David Crowder Band

• Here Is Our King from the album “A Collision”
• Open Skies from the album “Illuminate”
• You’re Everything from the album “Can You Hear Us?”

Jars of Clay

• Fade To Grey from the album “Much Afraid”
• Waiting for the World to Fall from the album “Music Inspired by the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”
• Sinking from the album “Jars of Clay”

Sanctus Real

• Nothing to Lose from the album “Say It Loud”
• Audience of One from the album “Say It Loud”
• I’m Not Alright from the album “The Face of Love”

Keith Green

• Because of You from the album from the album “For Him Who Has Ears To Hear “
• He’ll Take Care of the Rest from the album “For Him Who Has Ears To Hear “
• Dear John Letter (to the Devil) from the album “No Compromise “

The Elms

• Nothing To Do With Love from the album “The Chess Hotel”
• Speaking In Tongues from the album “Truth, Soul, Rock & Roll
• You Saved Me from the album “Truth, Soul, Rock & Roll

Switchfoot

• Dare You To Move from the album “The Beautiful Letdown”
• Learning to Breathe from the album “Learning to Breathe”
• Oh! Gravity from the album “Oh! Gravity”