New Bethany Dillon album - audio preview
Bethany Dillon’s sophomore album ‘Imagination’ will be in stores August 16. The album was produced by Ed Cash (2005 GMA Music Award-winning Producer of the Year) who also worked on her debut album. A recent press release gave us an idea of what we can expect:
Dillon wrote or co-wrote every song on Imagination, painting with broad strokes in bright greens, earthy browns and deeper hues of blue. Green, Bethany says, “because I see a lot of growth and a lot of brightness here, and yet there’s also a lot of restlessness, which is sometimes the result of growth.” Brown because “I just love earthiness musically. A lot of the songs almost feel like standing at the edge of a cliff and just staring out and seeing a lot of open space, a lot of freedom.” Deep, dark blues—like the swirling ocean in the moonlight—reverberate throughout the album, hinting at the mystery of the marriage of grace and freedom and the adventure in not having to know how or why.
Wash those colors across the life of this young lady, and when the whole thing dries, what is left is undeniable: “God’s unearthly grace and immeasurable love for us is the heartbeat of this whole record,” Bethany says. “This is a story of hope and redemption, one that paints a brutally and beautifully honest picture of what it is to really live by faith.”
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“After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had never noticed before,” says Bethany. “I was struggling daily with pride and insecurity, homesickness and loneliness, with the burden of picking up my cross and following Jesus. This journey produced a new hunger for redemption in me.”
Below are some audio samples from Imagination:
Dreamer
Hallelujah
Airplane
All That I Can Do
I Believe In You
My Love Hasn’t Grown Cold
New
The Way I See You
Vagabond
Be Near Me
Imagination
Look for Bethany on the cover of next months CCM magazine - and don’t forget to head on over to Music Quotient and check out our interview with her right after her debut CD was released.
