Resurrection Letters, Volume 2 CD

Come examine the sacrifice Christ made with the "story in every song" styling of Andrew Peterson! Layering poignant lyrics, acute observations, imaginative instrumental arrangements, and distinctive vocals, the gifted singer/songwriter brings you the radio single "All Things New," "Hosanna," "Invisible God," "Hosea," "I've Got News," "All You'll Ever Need," "Windows in the World," and "The Good Confession."

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Reviewed by Elisa (Nashville, TN), June 01, 2009

Wow! I found this guy after hearing "Invisible God" on our local Christian Radio! I couldn't move when I heard this song and to-date it is one of the very best real songs ever recorded to honor our Eternal Father El Elyon through our Yeshua Christ! I love this guys songs - his voice, his realness, his creativity and willingness search deep to bring us True Worship!!! He is now my favorite artist and I tell everyone about him!!! thank you our Father for men in the family of God like him!

Reviewed by Mary Williams (Berwyn, IL), January 07, 2009

My husband is a big fan of Andrew Peterson and loved the surprise of this CD for Christmas. He's been enjoying it ever since. Andrew stays true to the sound and core of his music, and that allows us to draw closer to God.

Reviewed by Mark Geil (Atlanta, GA), October 22, 2008

It was the sound of that first song eight years ago, Nothing to Say, that caught my attention. That was back when radio would play songs like these, when Andrew Peterson was a new artist revealing extraordinary potential. With “Resurrection Letters, Volume II” that potential is realized in an album lush in metaphor, setting, and texture. I suspect every review of this CD will start by explaining why there’s no Volume I. There will be, promises Peterson, someday. Volume I will be an Easter record, a concept strangely absent in a Christian music industry prolific in cranking out Christmas records. This “Volume II” is an Easter record of sorts, but it deals more with the effects of Christ’s resurrection than the resurrection itself. With that theme in mind, the album opens with a rallying cry: “Rise up, oh you sleeper!” The song, All Things New, sets the stage for the album, casting the resurrection as a sunrise after a dark night and recognizing that the same light should wake us up today. The song is the radio single, leaving me wondering if radio might try playing songs like this again. The powerful opener is followed by one of the best songs I’ve heard in ages, Hosanna, which captures the bewildering contrast between the triumphal entry and the crucifixion, played out in the inner struggle of sin and redemption. Peterson’s first-person songs are often my favorites, and this is as personal and confessional as it gets. Each statement of the darkness of man - “I have cursed the man that you have made me / I have nursed the beast that bays for my blood / I have run from the one who would save me” – is followed by the same not-quite-defeated cry of praise voiced by the soon-to-be-crucifying mob on Palm Sunday, “Hosanna”. The musical movement of percussion and strings follow the emotion of the redeemed sinner from Good Friday to Resurrection Sunday. (Read the rest of the review at www.myccm.org/markgeil/blog )

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