Instrumental version of "Wading" from Numbers And Letters' "Guns Under Water"

Wading (instrumental)

Ghost (instrumental)

Tell Me (instrumental)

Instrumental version of "Don't Say It Was Me" from Numbers And Letters' "Guns Under Water"

Don't Say It Was Me (instrumental)

Instrumental version of "Dark Adam," from Numbers And Letters' "Guns Under Water"

Dark Adam (instrumental)

Instrumental version of "Run Downhill" from Numbers And Letters' "Guns Under Water"

Run Downhill (instrumental)

Instrumental version of "If You Say the Words" from Numbers And Letters' "Guns Under Water"

If You Say The Words (instrumental)

O Come, O Come Emmanuel

I love this emblematic English folk carol because to me it represents simplicity and resilience. In the harshest of winters, may you remain evergreen (if even a little prickly or bitter, as we all get sometimes).

I make a Christmas song every year for friends, family and fans and this is the 2015 addition.

The Holly And The Ivy

This is the second Christmas song I've tried writing, the first being "Alleluia Anyway" ten years ago (still up on the Bandcamp/Soundcloud).

"I Heard a Cry in the Wilderness" riffs on the first eight verses of the book of Mark, an anticipatory narrative starring John the Baptist. It's a reminder that hope doesn't necessarily spring from familiar or sterile places, but from the wilds — unblinking, chaotic, unknown, "unsentimental" (as my pastor calls it), and even lonely places. 

Jesus was born poor and vulnerable among noise, messiness, shabbiness — his mother Mary super stressed out — and yet all advent season we long to arrive at an animals' manger. 

It's been a challenging, mysterious, and difficult year. When a voice cries out when in the wilderness, I've needed to be still and quiet in order to hear the call. 

For the song, I dug into some of ~my~ familiar places like traditional hymns and little vocal licks in the cheesy worship tunes I used to love singing. (Unlike those hymns and songs, I kept the verses to two and tried not to vamp the chorus a thousand million times, rolling in at two minutes. Shout out to all the former Young Life kids.)

I didn't make a Christmas song last year. Sorry about that.

Merry Christmas Music

I Heard a Cry in the Wilderness

Numbers And Letters releases a new Christmas song a year

O Come All Ye Faithful

Little Drummer Boy

Eighth song on "Guns Under Water." Featuring Katie Hasty, Kendall Eddy and Ward Williams. Grab your love, and a hankie.

If You Say The Words

Numbers And Letters' album "Guns Under Water" is released digitally on this day, April 8. Coincidentally, April 8 is also Rex Manning Day, as celebrated in the 1995 film "Empire Records." Numbers And Letters' Katie Hasty covers the fictional Rex Manning's megahit "Say No More, Mon Amour" for as long as she could stomach it.

Say No More, Mon Amour (in honor of Rex Manning Day slash Album Release Day)

Folk/alt-country/Americana. Christmas music and little religious songs, too.

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