– Autumn & Eve: Old Testaments Vol I –
The stories of the Old Testament have always stood as a reminder of how God uses the most flawed of his children to do miraculous things. There are so many stories of heartbreak, war, disappointment, tragedy and endless waiting, among other things.
I have felt that my own life in the last few years has shared some of the same road with some of the stories of old. Loss and failure. Disappointment and miracles walking hand in hand.
I spent a lot of time outside while I was writing these songs. I recorded some of the sounds that surrounded me as I wrote and included them on the project. I wanted you to hear what I heard and feel what I felt as the songs came into being.
The record is so simple. It was my aim to keep it as sparse as possible while still communicating the emotion of the stories and songs. I’m so grateful to be my co-producer Kyle Buchanan for helping make that possible.
I hope you hear your own story in some of these songs and can feel the mercy of God that has been reaching out to us across the ages and is as present today as it was when we are only dust.
- Cindy
The Year of Jubilee is a lyrical coming-of-age novel set against the backdrop of the turbulent South in the early 1960s.
Stifled by tragedy, thirteen-year-old Grace Mockingbird yearns to escape her mother's controlling, grieving hand and find her voice in a small Kentucky coal mining town. A tragic family loss has driven a wedge between Grace and her mother, who seems to be silently punishing Grace by withholding her love. Grace does penance in every chore while doubting she'll ever earn her mother's forgiveness.
But change arrives with the hot winds of summer as the frequent clashes of the civil rights movement play out not only on the Mockingbirds' new television but also in their town, and Grace must decide what she believes amid the swirling, conflicting voices even of those she loves.
Then her younger brother and best friend, Isaac, becomes seriously ill. With the world as she's always known it shifting around her, Grace must journey past her own fear and through pain to bring healing to those who need it as she tries to save the one person dearest to her.