Okay, maybe not...MOVE over. Maybe just...scooch a bit.

Can you have two favorite artists? Both in first place?

I just found this CD by Andy Gullahorn on NoiseTrade. I listened to the first few seconds of a few of the songs (the samples available), told three friends, and downloaded the album. I didn't even know he was a Christian artist. I didn't care. The songs could have all been about peanut butter sandwiches and I would have been thrilled; the music and artistry in the songwriting was so incredible, the guitar so gorgeous, I had to have it.

Turns out his lyrics are better than even his music.

He is artful and sly, witty and challenging and emotional. In the same CD, he writes both a song about his love affair with his wife and his love affair with his hat, both a tear jerking memoir to a couple who lost a child and a subtly humorous memoir to a friend who got in a fight with a lawn mower and lost his toe.

I don't know how I've never heard of this guy before. I love the folky acoustic feel and the down to earth lyrics. It's refreshing and charming, intimate and understated. So if you haven't, go to Derek Webb's NoiseTrade, tell three friends, and download the entire album for free ("for a very limited time only!" Andy claims) or, better yet, "pay what you want."