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Buller makes you want to listen

Clay Bergen

Sinner and the Saint Jon Buller. True Tunes Records, 1999.

What a tremendously good recording! Jon Buller’s Sinner and the Saint is an album that starts off strong and keeps delivering quality throughout. The lyrical content and consistently strong music are a pleasure to listen to. Some songs you just can’t help but crank up and let them wash over you. Each tune has a distinct beat and rhythm that makes you want to listen.

Some highlights include: “Fundamental”, a song addressing our need of God’s grace; “Psalm 150”, a straight-from-Scripture tour de force complete with strings, choir and a fantastic beat; “One More Day”, a wedding gift for his wife; and the catchy “Meet Me In The River”, previously released on the Hear the Music Productions And Your Praise Goes On.

Perhaps the best song on the album is the title track, “Sinner and the Saint”. Nolan Balzer’s backing vocals are unique as is Buller’s lyrical scat solo. In its humour, it brings the point across that all of us who have been saved were once sinners, but now are saints.

There is something of value in every song, and every song should appeal to someone. Sinner and the Saint is an album worth owning.

Clay Bergen lives in Big River, Sask.

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