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S5:E6-9 Catholic Playlist Shows – #190-193

Catholic Playlist Shows 190-193

Oh how time runs by. It’s been over 2(!) months since I lasted posted a new show here to the website and I feel terrible about it for a couple of reasons. First, the show is first and foremost a showcase of some of the best and newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists and if I don’t post a show they miss out on some key exposure to their target audience. Ouch. Second, the show serves a way for Christian music lovers to discover new music and artists to listen to for encouragement and inspiration. When there’s no show, there’s no discovery. Sigh.

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S5:E2 Catholic Playlist – #186

Catholic Playlist #186

Dee SimoneMore new music comes your way in our latest playlist! Dee Simone’s newest single “Liberty to Captives” is featured this week along with tracks from Matt Faley, Dan Francis, Aly Aleigha, Rebecca Roubion, Ben Walther and many more. Plus, we get Lent started with “Lord Have Mercy” from The Vigil Project, featuring Greg&Lizzy.

Song List
Dee Simone – “Liberty to Captives” Amazon iTunes
John Finch – “Walk by Faith” Amazon iTunes
Greg&Lizzy – “Lord Have Mercy” Amazon iTunes
Josh Blakesley – “Here At The Cross” Amazon iTunes
Danielle Noonan – “Come to the Cross” Amazon iTunes
Aly Aleigha – “Into the Night” Amazon iTunes
Dan Francis – “The Walls” Amazon iTunes
Rebecca Roubion – “Here Lies My Pulse” iTunes
Joe Zambon – “I Just Want Peace” Amazon iTunes
Matt Faley – “Here I Am” Amazon iTunes
Ben Walther – “Make Your Home In Me” Amazon iTunes
Sarah Kroger – “Run to the Cross” Amazon iTunes

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S4:E28 Catholic Playlist – #179

Catholic Playlist #179

The end of 2017 is nearly in sight and the end of the liturgical year is even closer, as Advent is a mere 5 weeks away. We’ll have playlists full of Advent music during that season, but until then we’ll continue to enjoy the same great music we always do. We go back a few years to Marie Miller’s song 6’2″, which has a strong Theology of Body theme to it, and right up to the present with a new track from Rita West’s debut EP Chosen. Other artists appearing in the playlist include Dante Schmitz, Michael James Mette, Alverlis, Danielle Noonan, Josh Blakesley Band and more.

Song List
Ben Walther – “Ablaze” Amazon iTunes
Michael James Mette – “Higher” Amazon iTunes
Lee Roessler – “How Sweet the Sound” Amazon iTunes
Alverlis – “Love Changes Everything” Amazon iTunes
Ike Ndolo – “Make It Loud” Amazon iTunes
Dante Schmitz – “Our Father” Amazon iTunes
Rachel Ann & Cassandra Acree – “Still I Run” Amazon iTunes
Marie Miller – “This Side of Paradise” Amazon iTunes
Rita West – “Glory” Amazon iTunes
Danielle Noonan – “Undone” Amazon iTunes
Josh Blakesley Band – “You’re Enough” Amazon iTunes
FOCUS Worship – “Sing My Love/Like An Avalanche” Amazon iTunes

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S4:E22 Catholic Playlist – #173

It's Guy's Only!

Catholic Playlist Show #173

It’s only fitting to follow up last week’s ladies only playlist with a guys only playlist this week. That’s exactly what we’ve done as we selected 13 of the most popular male contemporary Christian music artists of the last year. And like the ladies, we had to keep a few guys on the sidelines, notably Matt Faley, Adam Bitter, Brother Isaiah, Cody Roth, Dave Moore, Fr Rob Galea, Joe Zambon and more. Now if you listen to the entire playlist, you might notice that Josh Blakesley isn’t heard. Why? It’s because they are a band, a group, and in fact they are referred to as the Josh Blakesley Band. It’s a technicality probably, but it does give us more options to choose when doing a ‘Bands’ only playlist! That playlist may be coming your way soon. Getting back to Playlist #173, you’ll hear from Connor Flanagan, Dante Schmitz, John Finch, Ike Ndolo, Kyle Sinkule and more.

Song List
Ben Walther – “Ablaze” Amazon iTunes
Chris Bray – “King in His Kingdom” Amazon iTunes
Connor Flanagan – “Waterfall (feat. Shonlock)” Amazon iTunes
Dan Francis – “No Other Name” Amazon iTunes
Dante Schmitz – “Miracles” Amazon iTunes
Fr Kevin McGoldrick – “Oh God You Are My God” Amazon iTunes
Ike Ndolo – “Land of the Rising Sun” Amazon iTunes
John Finch – “Walk by Faith” Amazon iTunes
Kyle Sinkule – “Saul” Amazon iTunes
Mathias Michael – “Mystery” Available after signing up at his website
Matt Maher – “Your Love Defends Me” Amazon iTunes
PJ Anderson – “Rise” Amazon iTunes
Ricky Vazquez – “House of Cards” Amazon iTunes

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S4:E18 Catholic Playlist Show – #169

New Music from Matt Maher, John Finch

Catholic Playlist Show #169

A new single from Matt Maher headlines this episode of the Catholic Playlist Show. “Your Love Defends Me” is the latest from Matt Maher and we’re pleased to put it up first in the playlist. That’s followed by more new music – a single from John Finch titled “Walk by Faith” and “Thrive” from Dave More. “Thrive” comes from an album released by Dave in January 2017 that we just stumbled across this week.

Other music in the playlist comes from Ike Ndolo, Rita West, NOVUM, Joe Zambon and many more.

Song List
Matt Maher – “Your Love Defends Me” Amazon iTunes
John Finch – “Walk by Faith” Amazon iTunes
Dave Moore – “Thrive” Amazon iTunes
Audrey Assad – “Even Unto Death” Amazon iTunes
Ben Walther – “Ablaze” Amazon iTunes
Ceili Rain – “If It’s Your Will” Amazon iTunes
FOCUS Worship – “God Alone” Amazon iTunes
Fr Rob Galea – “No Greater Love” Amazon iTunes
Greg&Lizzy – “Cathedral” Amazon iTunes
Ike Ndolo – “Make It Loud” Amazon iTunes
Joe Zambon – “Coming Home” Amazon iTunes
NOVUM – “No Longer Slaves” Amazon iTunes
PJ Anderson – “Your Grace is Amazing” Amazon iTunes
Rita West – “Victor” Amazon iTunes

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S4:E14 Catholic Playlist Show – #165

Catholic Playlist #165

It’s the power of some of the best and newest contemporary Christian music from Catholic artists that let’s the joy of the Gospel reach every listener’s ears! We have a great playlist assembled again for you this week. Our new featured artist from last week, Daniel Rolf, returns with another song from his EP “Turn to Mercy”, along with Chris Bray, Mathias Michael, Shaun Garrison, Tori Harris and others.

Marie Miller LetterboxWe also debut a song from Marie Miller’s new album! “Letterbox” is a 12 song album that is terrific from top to bottom, starting with “This Side of Paradise”, a song we’ve been featuring on our playlists since its release as a single. While the album is a pop album and not a Christian music album, it does tackle some important Christian themes and truths that we want to share. The bottom line is her music is just too good not to play! We lead off the playlist with “Two to One”, song about the truth of marriage.

If you’ve been a regular listener of the Catholic Playlist, you know it’s music showcase featuring a variety of music. But lately we’ve been thinking of producing a Top 10 countdown show once a month. What do you think? Would you like to hear a Top 10 Catholic Playlist Countdown every month? Vote here and give your thoughts in the comments.

Song List
Marie Miller – “Two to One” Amazon iTunes
Chris Bray – “King in His Kingdom” Amazon iTunes
Ben Walther – “Ablaze” Amazon iTunes
Daniel Rolf – “Turn to Mercy” Amazon iTunes
Dee Simone – “lovesick” Amazon iTunes
EPIC Band – “My Eyes” Amazon iTunes
Mathias Michael – “Live It Out Loud” Amazon iTunes
Mikey Needleman – “All For You” Amazon iTunes
Shaun Garrison – “Exceeding” Amazon iTunes
Taylor Tripodi – “Here I Am” Amazon iTunes
Tori Harris – “Fields of Gold” Amazon iTunes
Sarah Kroger – “This Is My Story” Amazon iTunes

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S4:E4-E7 Catholic Playlist Show – #155 thru #158

From Upbeat to Silence for Weeks...

Catholic Playlist Show

It figures. I play up a special episode featuring all ‘super upbeat’ songs, which proved really popular, and then I don’t post a new show for nearly 2 months. From upbeat to silence for weeks…how ironic.

New shows have been produced nearly every week since the upbeat show, and I’ll post some explanation as to why the posts have been delayed soon, but until then enjoy this catch up post featuring 4 shows:

#155
After releasing an “upbeat” theme show featuring all high energy songs, this week we take things a little slower, but only a little. Some of the music in the playlist includes “Coming Home” by Joe Zambon, “Even The Winter” by Audrey Assad, “Even In This” from Josh Blakesley and “Innocent” by Francis Cabildo. Other artists you’ll hear include Out of Darkness, Alob, Kara Klein, Tori Harris, Dave Moore and others.

#156
The process of selecting music for each playlist sometimes leads us to find songs on albums that we didn’t notice before. That’s the case this week as we realized that “Curls” from Katy Blythe’s debut EP ‘NEW’ was a really good song. Same goes for “All I Am Is Yours” by Benjamin Jude and “Lead Me To You” by John Trabbic. Catch these tracks plus more from NOVUM, Mikey Needleman, Taylor Tripodi, Jaime Thietten, Cooper Ray and more.

#157
Lent is underway in 2017 and while we won’t be playing songs with alleluia in the title or in the lyrics (but we might miss one here or there — please forgive!), we will keep playing the best and newest contemporary Christian music by Catholic artists. This week we have title track Undone from Danielle Noonan’s new EP, as well as songs from Alverlis, Kyle Sinkule, Dan Francis, Greg&Lizzy, Marie Miller and more.

#158
The latest release from Chris Bray highlights this episode of the Catholic Playlist show. We debut 2 songs from Chris’ album “Joy In My Heart” in the playlist – “King In His Kingdom” and “In The Name”, and surround them with great tracks from Stefania Elsmore, Dana Catherine, Ike Ndolo, Matt Maher and many more.

Song List
New songs heard in these 4 shows are found below. Otherwise, you can find links to the songs and artists in these show in previous episodes here on the website.

Cody Roth – “Colors Left Unseen” Amazon iTunes
EPIC The Band – “Agape” Amazon iTunes
Danielle Noonan – “Undone” Amazon iTunes
Chris Bray – “King in His Kingdom”, “In His Name” Amazon iTunes


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S4:E3 Catholic Playlist Show – #154

A Special 'Super Upbeat' Playlist!

Catholic Playlist #154

Each week we encourage listeners to send us their requests and we receive a number of submissions from artists eager to get their music on the show. But this week we received the following message:

I was disheartened when my husband commented that he would listen to more Christian/Catholic music, but found it “sad” or with an overriding down beat. Can you help my effort to have him discover the love of Christ by creating a super upbeat playlist? He regularly works out at the gym, and i’d love to infiltrate his current playlist with songs from your show! Let’s work together to take the Trinity to the treadmill!

With a request like that we had to do it! So this week the Catholic Playlist goes “super upbeat” with selections from Dan Francis, Delmore, John Finch, Kevin Heider, Matt Maher and our lone female artist in the playlist, Marie Miller.

Song List
Mathias Michael – “Amplified” Amazon iTunes
Dan Francis – “Sing” Amazon iTunes
Delmore – “Spirit Come” Amazon iTunes
Marie Miller – “This Side Of Paradise” Amazon iTunes
Kevin Heider – “All I Want (Love Come Alive)” Amazon iTunes
Bob Rice – “For That Is What We Are” Amazon iTunes
Dante Schmitz – “Uncovered” Amazon iTunes
Ben Walther – “Mighty to Save” Amazon iTunes
Connor Flanagan – “Strong Is Your Love” Amazon iTunes
John Finch – “Glorify You” Amazon
Matt Maher – “Shout Of The King” Amazon iTunes
Ike Ndolo – “Glorious” Amazon iTunes
Jacob and Matthew Band – “Give Glory” Amazon iTunes
Jeremy and Ryan – “Unstoppable”

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S4:E2 Catholic Playlist Show – #153

Catholic Playlist #153

One of great things about a show like the Catholic Playlist is that it features a diverse variety of music genres, from pop to rock to folk to country to even a little hip hop. A distinctly country sound can be found in the second segment of this week’s Catholic Playlist Show. That’s no surprise with songs from Matt Faley and Kyle Sinkule, but Ben Walther will surprise you with “To One”. Don’t miss it and other great music from the likes of Adam Bitter, Dana Catherine, Alanna Boudreau, John Finch and last week’s new featured artist Stefania Elsmore.

Song List
Adam Bitter – “Rest In God Alone” Amazon iTunes
Rebecca Roubion – “Anywhere I Go” Amazon iTunes
Dana Catherine – “My Savior in Me” Amazon iTunes
Greg&Lizzy – “I Won’t Settle” Amazon iTunes
Stefania Elsmore – “All There Is” Amazon iTunes
Ben Walther – “To One” Amazon iTunes
Noelle Garcia – “Wonderfully Made” Amazon iTunes
Emily Wilson – “Beautiful and Yours” Amazon iTunes
Kyle Sinkule – “Saul” Amazon iTunes
Aly Aleigha – “Wrestling Flames” Amazon iTunes
Alanna Boudreau – “Dismantled by Love” iTunes
Matt Faley – “On My Own” Amazon iTunes
John Finch – “Praise To You” Amazon iTunes

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S3:E32 Catholic Playlist Show – #143

While we wait for new music in the coming weeks from Connor Flanagan and Danielle Noonan, enjoy this playlist of great music in episode #143 of the Catholic Playlist show. Mathias Michael leads off with “Live out Loud” and the energy continues through songs like “God Alone” from FOCUS Worship, “Ablaze” from Ben Walther and Teresa Peterson’s “He Makes All Things New”. Adding performers like PJ Anderson, Rebecca Roubion, Sarah Hart, and Lee Roessler makes this playlist a real treat to listen to any time.

Song List
Adam Bitter – “Flicker” Amazon iTunes
Ben Walther – “Ablaze” Amazon iTunes
Danielle Noonan – “There Is No One Like You” Amazon iTunes
FOCUS Worship – “God Alone” Amazon iTunes
Jeremy and Ryan – “Your Love Goes On” Amazon iTunes
Katy Blythe – “I Thirst (feat. Alob)” Amazon iTunes
Lee Roessler – “How Sweet the Sound” Amazon iTunes
Mathias Michael – “Live out Loud” Amazon iTunes
Noelle Garcia – “Wonderfully Made” Amazon iTunes
PJ Anderson – “Your Name Is Mercy” Amazon iTunes
Rebecca Roubion – “Anywhere I Go” Amazon iTunes
Sarah Hart – “Joy in These Bones” Amazon iTunes
Teresa Peterson – “He Makes All Things New” Amazon iTunes