Jordan Lansdowne, Leave Your Lights On as reviewed in Phantom Tollbooth

Deep, earthy sounds of heart and soul, hard-edged grace with an offering from his soul to yours

Leave Your Light On (EP)
Artist: Jordan-Morgan Lansdowne
Label:  7 Spin Music
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Duration:  4 tracks, 12:40

Having followed the last three offerings by Jordan-Morgan Lansdowne, I can attest to his growth in writing and performing. As refined by the fire of his life experience, I hear his soul change from the joy of finding Christ to the realities of this life as a Christian. In these tracks are found the loneliness of the soul, the physical yearning for love and acceptance, the grit and bone of life.

“Leave Your Lights On” has Springsteen-like phrasing but opens up with a dark, smoldering refrain leaving a powerful mark on the listener. “Corn Stacks And Coal Mines” is a slow moving, heart-felt acoustic message of loss and yearning. Like an early Johnny Cash single, “Railroad Bend” has a tinge of country with a hard-edged reality. A sometime musical rarity in today’s plethora of music, “Spring Bell” (unreleased home demo) is an artist’s gift to the listener.

Leave Your Lights On has deep, earthy sounds of heart and soul, hard-edged grace with an offering from his soul to yours.

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Scott S Mertens

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