March 06 2009
Review: Ryan Delmore “The Spirit, the Water and the Blood”
Tagged Under : music, review, Ryan Delmore, Vineyard, worship
This album has been out for a few months and I’m glad I’ve waited to review until I was really able to dig into it. I’ve known about Ryan for many years, we were both leading worship in the Vineyard in our youth, Ryan was about an hour north of me in the 5 Cities area on the coast of California. We shared many of the same friends but our paths never crossed until recently when I sat down to interview him upon the release of this album.
His music, voice, songwriting has all matured so much from The Burn days. I can’t tell you how blown away I am by this album. Songs like Jesus Name, Sing Like Mary Sang and The World Can’t Take It Away immediately grab you, you don’t need any more listens than 1 to love. Then songs like Sacred, True Religion and Love of God grow in your heart on each listen, the depth to these songs deserves and calls for repeated listens.
Ryan has all the sensibility of Tom Waits and Petty with the grit and country hooks of Ryan Adams. The absolute worst thing about much of the Christian contemporary music is the cheap, cheesy melody hooks. You won’t find any of those here. The richness and sincerity of these songs and production can’t help but make you feel like you just wandered into a basement worship session to hear Ryan’s love songs to Jesus.
If you’re wondering how many of these could be done in church, I pretty much plan on doing every one of them, I’ve never said or done that with any other album. This truly is one of the greatest worship albums I’ve heard. Period. If you don’t like alt-country-folk-rock and are looking for another Hillsong album, well move along, but if you love some twang and soul then by all means this is the album for you. You can and should buy the entire album at Vineyard Music or on iTunes.
If you want to hear Ryan in the flesh, he’s playing with my band at Anthropology Men’s Conference at Life Connection Church this weekend, starting tonight. Get there!
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Ryan’s music is definitely ‘ballemic’… He’s pretty much Adam, Petty, and Wait’s ‘love-child’, created after a soothing bottle of ‘Godka’ while they listened to John Mellencamp’s “Hurts so good”. ‘Twas a pleasure playing with the brotha- he’s a good man and an excellent musician. This weekend was nothing but good times and great worship. By the way, Ryan is a superb drummer…for those who were curious.
Great review Kyle, I’m so stinking excited that we will be doing his songs cause they are sick! I loved every song and have had a couple stuck in my head literally every day since I heard them. I’m excited to get my alt-rock-country groove on to those sweet jams. Ryan – love your stuff buddy, you are an amazing songwritter.