The Cricket & Seagull: 'The Waiting Place,' new music from Calee Reed

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When Calee Reed lets go with her big, hearty, infectious laugh, you can't help but laugh along. And when she sings of joy or of holding on through heartbreak, it's hard not to feel that you know exactly what she means. I guess that's the beauty of "The Waiting Place," the new album of songs that marks Reed's recording debut.

With imaginative pairings of familiar hymns and lots of originals, Calee Reed hits the mark nearly every time. Her runaway success of a music video (which you can see here on her website www.caleereed.com or below) shows a gift for finding the divine in the mundane and the everyday; the perspective that suddenly snaps everything trivial into it's proper proportion when something really important is suddenly at stake.

That's this week on The Cricket and Seagull.

Playlist:

Give My Heart Your Peace

Better Than a Hallelujah

Called to Serve

Closer to You

Time for Love

Trust in God

The Waiting Place

Where Can I Turn for Peace?/Be Still, My Soul

She Put the Music in Me

Come, Thou Fount/I Am a Child of God

'She Put The Music in Me' by Calee Reed

Calee Reed's first album, "The Waiting Place," is a reflection on her most difficult moments in life: watching her mother battle with cancer. Now, more than a year later, her music is a testimony of the power of faith and will bring hope and courage to the wounded heart.

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