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Moving on with another post in the Worship Wars…
You may never have heard of today’s artist, Aaron Strumpel, but some of you will be relieved to notice that his name looks a lot like that tasty breakfast delicacy, strudel. I don’t know about you, but it sure makes me feel better.
Aaron Strumpel is one of those worship guys that you should know. His songs are simple. They’re heartfelt. They’re real. And they’re catching on with the emergent guys, which means Aaron’s only gonna get more and more popular.
I heard about Aaron Strumpel when I was checking up on Enter the Worship Circle to see if they had anything new out. In 2006, they began the Chair and Microphone series, in their own words, a series “full of raw conversations with God, shot from the Psalms, but with only a solo voice and one guitar…one take…one time to record it.” There are currently two volumes. You should buy 100 copies of each and send them throughout the world.
Anyway, Aaron Strumpel took on the second volume, and he’s really great. His style reminds me of Damien Rice, and these recordings are such real, raw, un-polished cries to God that you can’t help but feel the passion. It’s like being inside someone’s head for an album.
