Brave Nichole Nordeman

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  • Release Date: 05/24/2005
  • Sales Rank: 54,824
  • Label: SPARROW
  • UPC: 724386357502

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Brave

1LISTENBrave 4:15
2LISTENWhat If 4:43
3LISTENSomeday 4:49
4LISTENReal to Me 3:47
5LISTENCrimson 2:58
6LISTENHold On 5:47
7LISTENLay It Down 3:44
8LISTENNo More Chains 4:51
9LISTENGotta Serve Somebody 3:59
10LISTENLive 4:11
11LISTENWe Build 7:37

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Nichole Nordeman took time off to raise her son after her award-winning 2002 album Woven and Spun, so besides an interim live album, Brave is the first album from her in three years. Not surprisingly, it's as if she never left. Her voice is as gorgeous as ever. But on Brave, it's Nordeman's songwriting that really stands out. She's transformed the experiences of starting a family and settling into a non-hectic, non-touring, non-spotlight life -- at least for a little while -- into an album that goes beyond the usual CCM devotionals to offer clean, clear, inspiration for life. So a song like "Real to Me," while is asking God for a tangible sign that grace and worship and rest really work, is just as easily translatable to interpersonal human relationships. Nordeman is clear about her faith, her belief. But she is never heavy handed with it. She even struggles with it, asking Him to explain the unexplained and terrible in the beautifully moody "Someday" and challenging the longstanding concepts in "What If." On Brave, Nordeman is honest with herself and the audience, instead of riding a high horse of rhetoric. Working closely with producer Jay Joyce she's crafted a mix of atmospheric, buoyant pop ("No More Chains," "Someday,") and introspective piano numbers ("Crimson") and like Woven's meditation on Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes," there's even time for a cover. This time around it's Bob Dylan's searching, cynically reverent "Gotta Serve Somebody," redone in a style somewhere between Sheryl Crow and Kelly Clarkson. It's not the most functional version. However, Nordeman's heartfelt delivery makes it an integral part of Brave's inspirational, unfailingly honest, and crisply modern approach to CCM. Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide

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what a great CDby Anonymous

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March 17, 2006: Nichole Nordeman once again shows that she has the talent to write and sing songs with her album "Brave". This CD contains songs about every one's struggles in the walk of faith--she is not afraid to say this is what we all go through and this is how we need to deal with it. If you love the rest of Nichole Nordeman's albums, you will love "Brave".

Close, but no cigarby Anonymous

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November 08, 2005: The first day the CD came out, I rushed to go get it and quickly shelled out my $19. I was so eager to hear the CD that I couldn't get the shrink wrap off fast enough. So I clumsily popped the CD into my CD player and listened...and listened...and listened, until the CD was over and I felt somewhat disappointed. Unlike Nichole Nordeman's other CDs, this one was...not so great. I feel it's unfair to judge her based on her previous work, seeing as I could tell she was trying to do something different, but doing something different just for the sake of doing something different doesn't excuse mediocrity. One or two songs were, in my opinion, exceptional, "What if" "Crimson" and "Hold On" (which is three, but "Hold On" is really an extension of "Crimson"). The lyrics to "Crimson" and "Hold On" were, in my opinion, truly inspired with a message of hope, not to mention the music, which was phenomenal. All three were in fact, truly inspirational. However, Nordeman saw it fit to include Bob Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody" as her cover. I'm not a fan of Bob Dylan at all, so this is perhaps why I cannot appreciate this song fully, but I really feel, as gifted a songwriter Nordeman has proven to be, the lyrics to this song are...below her in potential. Other songs were apparently absent of Nordeman's beautiful piano instrumentals, which I found to be a big loss. All in all, you'd do better to buy Nordeman's other CDs (one word for all of them-exceptional) like "Wide Eyed" "This Mystery" and especially "Woven & Spun" but don't look for this CD to carry on the incredible talent that Nordeman has thus previously displayed. You might just be disappointed. (On a further note, if you insist on buying this CD, REMEMBER TO BUY THE ENHANCED VERSION!!! It has more songs, and the added songs are played to the tune of Nordeman's paino...how I wish the rest of the songs on the CD were....)