The Southern California band also known as DA started out as a Christian version of the Eagles but quickly - in the early ‘80s - became an outlet for Taylor’s ever-expanding palette of musical and literary influences, losing a lot of fans along the way with the release of “Horrendous Disc” and “Alarma!” There is no other way but to take a journey through its 21 songs - 1 hour and 40 minutes of wit, whimsy, word play and, yes, mystery.Įver since the early days of his band Daniel Amos in the mid-1970s, Taylor has shown himself to be an artist comfortable with exploring the outer edges of the songwriting craft and pushing the boundaries of what it means to be an evangelical Christian. The same can be said of Terry Scott Taylor’s new double album, “This Beautiful Mystery,” a culmination of 40-plus years laboring in the vineyard of Christian music with a quality and reach far beyond that much-maligned artistic ghetto. “You must throw yourself in,” the old man replies. “But there are no stairs,” the child says. The old man finally removes a large stone and points to a hole that the child must go through. (REVIEW) In George MacDonald’s short story “The Golden Key,” the child Tangle is seeking the “country whence the shadows fall” with the help of the Old Man of the Earth.
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