Counting Stars (Deluxe Edition)
Andrew Peterson
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Many Roads | Andrew Peterson | 4:22 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Dancing In the Minefields | Andrew Peterson | 3:30 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Planting Trees | Andrew Peterson | 3:31 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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The Magic Hour | Andrew Peterson | 3:39 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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World Traveler | Andrew Peterson | 4:06 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Isle of Skye | Andrew Peterson | 1:34 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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God of My Fathers | Andrew Peterson | 3:59 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Fool With a Fancy Guitar | Andrew Peterson | 2:30 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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In the Night | Andrew Peterson | 4:21 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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You Came So Close | Andrew Peterson | 3:29 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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The Last Frontier | Andrew Peterson | 3:28 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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The Reckoning (How Long) | Andrew Peterson | 5:10 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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The Same Song (Bonus Track) | Andrew Peterson | 4:38 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| 1 | VideoDancing In the Minefields | Andrew Peterson | 3:28 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| 1 | VideoThe Making of Counting Stars | Andrew Peterson | 11:31 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| BookletDigital Booklet - Counting Stars | Andrew Peterson | -- | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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iTunes Review
With a quiet sort of mastery Andrew Peterson spins tales of yearning and redemption on Counting Stars. Over the years, this accomplished singer/songwriter has emerged as one of Christian music’s most thoughtfully poetic voices, avoiding easy clichés in favor of stories rooted in everyday experience. He upholds his high standards on his latest work by setting cleanly wrought lyrics to evocative acoustic guitar-based melodies, dressed up with banjos, violins and percussion. Songs like “Many Roads,” “World Traveler” and “God of My Fathers” take a wide-angled view of life in vividly unfolding imagery. Peterson is especially eloquent when he depicts the dark nights of the soul that even believers experience — “You Came So Close” and “The Last Frontier” manage to find hope amid despair. Whether he’s celebrating the bonds of marriage (“Dancing In the Minefields”) or reminding himself of his true calling (“Fool With a Fancy Guitar”), Peterson’s music combines humility with a hard-won sense of joy.
Customer Reviews
A Million Miniscule decisions in a line...
This is a very strong album, andrew peterson is probably one of the greatest christian lyricist of all time... extremely powerful words fill the chords and melodies of his music... and you can tell his music is just getting better... also it is very nice to hear an artist like andrew peterson stay to the same bible-based, folkish style he's had in the past, instead of conforming to a typical christian music sound...
"Counting Stars" may be the best yet of his albums...
Not One of Them Is Missing
"To say that God is invisible is to walk around with your eyes closed." These are the words of the remarkable Christian, musician, husband, and father who recorded this album. Compared with Andrew's other albums, rest assured this is like a familiar room painted a different color. Andrew Peterson's music has stretched my faith for nearly a decade. My favorite parts of "Counting Stars" are "The Isle of Skye", a song Andrew wrote for his little girl, and "Fool with a Fancy Guitar", a brutally honest and intimate song about who we are in Christ. There is something unique about listening to Andrew Peterson's albums in their entirety, and "Counting Stars" is no exception. To single out one track or another is like hearing only one instrument perform a symphony. To hear a whole Andrew Peterson album brings a much clearer picture of the theme which Andrew has chosen to portray on each album, the Christ Andrew has given his life to share with us.
Looking for a Magic Hour of Music?
After listening to this record (which I got to do for the first time on Sunday), I wanted to sell my house and buy a copy for every person I’ve ever met.
I haven’t done the math on that (not one of my strengths), but you get the idea. You know something is special when you have an immediate, overwhelming desire to share it with others for their good. And this record is so very good in so many ways.
Counting Stars continues Andrew’s uncanny record of hitting me simultaneously like a new piece of art that astounds, while feeling as familiar as the natural soundtrack to my family’s life.
With each successive song-story you find yourself going deeper into the mystery and magic of the world God made, but it is not always “new” ground. It is only that Andrew can call your attention to what you failed to see before, but might if you try (or stop trying). He is not content to let ordinary be bland, he will say something about magic. Here are songs about loving your wife (or husband), looking in on sleeping kids, planting trees, and hope in the night. All told by a wordsmith who is more like a wizard than an ordinary singer-songwriter.
He offers here a humble tonic against ingratitude. A poem for the glory of ordinary chores. A thin place where the wall between the divine and the plain is tenuous at best.
On this record, as you may guess from the title, Andrew again alludes to Abraham. This is one of my favorite recurring flavors of his musical catalog. He makes us feel like we serve and love the same God that Abraham did, not by diminishing the patriarch, but by putting us in our place –surrounded by the love of that same God.
The Magic Hour is one of the songs on Counting Stars, but it also describes my experience of listening to the entire record.
Get yourself a copy here, so I don’t have to sell my house.
Biography
Genre: Christian & Gospel
Years Active: '90s, '00s, '10s
Top Albums and Songs By Andrew Peterson
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Dancing In the Minefields | Counting Stars | 3:30 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Labor of Love | Behold the Lamb of God: The True Tall Tale of the Coming of Christ | 4:32 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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After the Last Tear Falls | Love & Thunder | 5:15 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Silence of God | Love & Thunder | 3:49 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Dancing In the Minefields | Counting Stars (Deluxe Edition) | 3:30 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Family Man | Love & Thunder | 4:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Canaan Bound | Love & Thunder | 3:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Just As I Am | Love & Thunder | 3:44 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Serve Hymn / Holy Is the Lord | Love & Thunder | 4:12 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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High Noon | Love & Thunder | 4:25 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
- $14.99
- Genres: Christian & Gospel, Music, Rock, CCM, Christian Rock, Gospel
- Released: Jul 23, 2010
- ℗ 2010 Centricity Music. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is a violation of applicable laws. Manufactured by EMI Christian Music Group,
