To Be Loved - Thad Cockrell

So I have just been at the ENGAGE conference for the weekend. I should tell you something informative and edifying about the content of the teaching, which perhaps I shall when I get a bit more sleep and time to distill some of it, but for now, let me just tell you about Thad Cockrell.

All weekend at the conference they had this particular music playing over the speakers in the milling-around time, and I was quite enjoying it. So eventually on the Sunday I asked one of the guys I knew on the sound desk what it was, and he told me it was an album by Thad Cockrell called To Be Loved, suggested by Luke Woodhouse.

I don’t know Luke Woodhouse at all (yes, he’s the son of the principal of Moore Theological College) but I have a little group of friends who have discussed in my presence what a sterling sort of fellow he is on a number of occasions, and they also played music with him and thought he was fine at that too. That’s not especially relevant to the CD, but I know how us Christian folk run on recommendations, because sometimes it’s hard to sort all the good from the bad out there yourself (and you may well be wondering about my opinion on music). The music is actually "country", of sorts (I read somewhere on the internet that his motto is "putting the hurt back into Country"), and I’m not normally much of a country girl, but close your eyes and hear it as the background music in an auditorium full of people (you can listen to a few songs through top right on the website, though some of the others you can hear on iTunes I liked better, and also read a review here, which calls it more "orchestral pop, gospel and countrypolitan"). It was nicely perfect (and I also appreciated hearing something that wasn't U2 mainstream rock).

We also sang a new song that Luke Woodhouse actually wrote over the weekend. Right now, in my shattered state (didn't get a lot of sleep over the weekend, and for some stupid reason was awake for a few hours in the middle of last night too) I can’t even remember the title of it, but the chorus borrows from “O for a thousand tongues to sing”. I really liked that too.