REVIEW: Bebo Norman “Between The Dreaming…” (CR)
September 30th, 2006 |
Reviews | Source: ChristRock.com (23)
Chris Tomlin, Bebo Norman…and Bruce Springsteen? Find out why they are name-checked in the same paragraph. Also, we mention Chris Rice, but not in a fun way. The name says it all. Bebo Norman is trying a little too hard on his latest release, “Between the dreaming and the coming true.” I mean, I’d just call it “Truth in Dreaming,” or maybe “Dream, then Truth.” What the album titles says to me is that he is kind of trudging over the same ground, adding prepositions to sentences that worked fine the way they were before, on his first two records. Chris Tomlin has the same issues: when you are successful at a certain sound, there’s not a lot of opportunities in CCM to make your statement release, to go all Bruce Springsteen Ghost of Tom Joad on your listeners. […read more]



