God and Country Music: What It Sounds Like and the Weird Categories of Americana/Folk Grammys

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Each week in God and Country Music, Nick Rynerson gives country music a chance and examines the world of Americana, folk, alt-country, and popular country music. Americana/Folk has always been a fluid, hard-to-define genre. It’s almost best defined as the-genre-for-music-with-guitars-that-can’t-fit-nicely-into-any-other-genre. And maybe that’s the way it should be for a genre significantly less touched by commercialism [...]

Our Favorite Music of 2012

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The Christ and Pop Culture writers got together and hashed out our list of the best music we heard this year. Here’s what we came up with.

God and Country Music: "Salvation Song”–The Heart and Wisdom of the Avett Brothers

“The common grace of the Avett Brothers expressed in its most concentrated form in this song is essentially a billboard for the merciful character of God.”