In the scriptures, Psalm 13 is very similar to Psalm 6. How do you handle that when you come to adapt it? Here's the story of how My Soul Among Lions did it.
Is this intuitively a bluegrass psalm? What goes into an adaptation? Listen to the story of My Soul Among Lion's setting of Psalm 12, The Words of the LORD.
This was one of the more difficult nuts for us to crack, but sometimes all it takes is one bad idea, the right kind of bad idea, to help you think of the good idea. That's the story of My Soul Among Lion's setting of Psalm 9, Zion's Daughter.
It was a difficult journey to get to one of My Soul Among Lions more beloved songs, Beyond the Stars, with probably the most drama ever in any of our song productions. Herein lies the chilling tale.
Herein lies the tale of My Soul Among Lions two version of Psalm 31, particularly "You Are My Strength"--which came out just around the time the coronavirus became a thing.
No Psalm captures the joy of forgiveness better than Psalm 32, and here's the story of how Pastor Phil came up with the My Soul Among Lions version, 'How Blessed is the Man.'
In this episode, our heroes talk about the second version of Psalm 7, 'Lay My Glory Down.' This was one of Phil and Nathan's first collaborations, and one that's a little off the beaten track for My Soul Among Lions
In this episode, Between the Lions talks about Arise, O Lord (Psalm 7), and the difficulties of adapting an imprecatory psalm for worship. Aka just how imprecatory do you want it to feel and be? Support MSAL here!
Between the Lions tackles one of the songs that many My Soul Among Lions fans consider to be our best: Lord, How Long? This one was quite the process to get right, and we talk about that, plus the choice to Christify the ending. Support MSAL he
"Give ear to my words, O Lord; consider my groaning. Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray." Charles Spurgeon wrote about Psalm 5, " There are two sorts of prayers--those expressed in words, and the un
"Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him."My Soul Among Lions adapted Psalm 34 into 2 (count 'em) different song settings: "O Magnify the Lord" and "I am His Alone." Why did they do that? What went into a
In which Between the Lions talks Hold Me Fast (Psalm 5). This one was very much a reaction to the other one, which is very different. That happens to us a lot. Hear us talk about it. Support MSAL here!
Between the Lions discusses the first of two Psalm 4 settings. This one has an awesome choral setting, a little of which you'll hear in the episode. Support us here!
Between the Lions talks 'You Are My Shield" (Psalm 3), a psalm setting with many false starts, some of which we play for you in this episode. Support us here!
We really love the other Psalm 2, The Nations Rage, and have ever since Jody wrote it. But at the time some felt that another, more hard-hitting version was needed. And it turned out pretty well, too. Herein lies the tale. Support My Soul Among
This is the song where it all started to really feel like it was coming together for My Soul Among Lions, and also the song that we rushed into production when Obergefell hit. Here's the full story as recounted by those who lived to tell the ta
Between the Lions is taking on the other version of Psalm 1, maybe the one that you heard first, Night and Day. Why did we do a second version? What did we choose to open our first album with it? Do we aim to make our psalm translations more fa