For My Sunday Song #440, we are talking “In My Veins” by Colton Dixon. The song is off his stellar 2017 album ‘Identity’ released on March 24th of that year. The song was not a single, but my absolute favorite song on the album. The singles “Limitless” and “All That Matters” helped propel the album to #73 on the US Top 200 albums chart, but it went to #1 on the US Christian Albums chart. If you don’t know Colton, he is a former American Idol participant during Season 11 and made it to the Top 7, but amazingly didn’t win.
The song was written by Colton and Tommee Profitt and of course is a very religious song. The album it was from, ‘Identity’, was a concept album that had three parts, The Mind, The Body and The Spirit. “In My Veins” fell in The Body section. It is about how Jesus is inside of us, He is the fire in our veins. He gives us life through His death. When your world is dark, he is the light, the power that drives you and through your faith you can accomplish anything with His name written in your veins. A very spiritual and powerful message and every time I hear this song, I feel rejuvenated.
The song opens with a dramatic keyboard run, then the drums explode and you get some orchestration. It is all explosive and over the top in a good way. The chorus is huge, layers of vocals, great harmonies and Colton sounds amazing. The slow build up, the explosiveness and then to go go back to the softness before it explodes again takes you on a journey both musically and lyrically. The music gives you an uplifting, rejuvenated feeling that washes over you. Colton’s vocals are a higher range that is delivered so smooth and so effortlessly. The combination is perfection. A Christian song that is both a sensational pop song and a rock song at the same time.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd – Celebrating 50 Years: Live at the Ryman – (Frontiers Records)
Lorde – Virgin – (Universal Music)
Motorhead – The Manticore Tapes – (Sanctuary Records / BMG)
Rod Stewart – Ultimate Hits – (Rhino / Warner Records)
Barbra Streisand – The Secret of Life: Partners, Volume 2 – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention – Cheaper Than Cheep: The Soundtrack – (Universal Music)
Sodom – The Arsonist – (Steamhammer)
TSS – End of Time – (Fearless Records / Concord)
Jakko M. Jakszyk – Son of Glen – (InsideOutMusic)
Heaven Shall Burn – Heimat – (Century Media Records)
Shadow Intent – Imperium Delirium – (Shadow of Intent)
Lord Belial – Unholy Trinity – (Hammerheart Records)
Crystal Viper – The Live Quest – (Crystal Viper)
Deadguy – Near-Death Travel Services – (Relapse Records)
Crematory – …Just Dreaming – (Roar)
Arc De Soleil – Lumin Rain – (Maison Records)
Royale Lynn – Black Magic – (Epitaph)
Parker McCollum – Parker McCollum – (MCA Nashville / UMG)
Cole Swindell – Spanish Moss – (Warner Music Nashville)
Durry – This Movie Sucks – (Big Pip Records / Thirty Tigers)
Smut – Tomorrow Comes Crashing – (Bayonet Records)
Daisy The Great – The Rubber Teeth Talk – (S-Curve Records)
Late Night Drive Home – As I Watch My Life Online – (Epitaph)
Cheer-Accident – Admission – (Skin Graft Records)
Mareux – Nonstop Romance – (Revolution Records)
Greet Death – Die In Love – (Deathwish Inc)
Robert Randolph – Preacher Kids – (Dare Records / Sun Label Group)
Durand Jones & The Indications – Flowers – (Dead Oceans)
The Brummies – Drift Theory – (The Brummies)
Jeanines – How Long Can It Last – (Slumberland Records)
Katseye – Beautiful Chaos E.P. – (HYBE x Geffen / UMG)
Lauren Spencer Smith – The Art of Being a Mess – (Three Name Productions, Inc. / Island Records)
Benson Boone – American Heart – (Night Street Records / Warner Records)
Haim – I Quit – (Columbia Records)
Badflower – No Place Like Home – (Big Machine Records / John Varvatos Records)
Yungblud – Idols – (Locomotion Recordings / Capitol Records)
Lukas Nelson – American Romance – (6 Ace Records / Sony Music)
The B-52’s – The Warner Reprise Years – (Rhino / Warner Records)
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Keke Palmer – Just Keke – (Big Bosses Ent. / The SoNo Recording Group)
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The Cure – Mixes of a Lost World – (Polydor Records / Lost Music Ltd / Universal Music)
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Volbeat – God of Angels Trust – (Vertigo Berlin / Universal Music)
Triumph – Magic Power: All Star Tribute to Triumph – (Round Hill Records)
Doobie Brothers – Walk This Road – (Rhino Records)
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Personal History – (Lambent Light Records)
Brian Eno/ Beatie Wolfe – Luminal – (Verve Records)
Brian Eno/ Beatie Wolfe – Lateral – (Verve Records)
Turnstile – Never Enough – (Roadrunner Records)
Miley Cyrus – Something Beautiful – (Columbia Records)
Garbage – Let All That We Imagine Be The Light – (BMG Rights Mgmt)
The Dead Daisies – Lookin’ For Trouble – (Fame – Malaco)
Anderson East – Worthy – (Rounder Records)
Wolves At The Gate – Wasteland – (Solid State Records)
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Grouplove – Rock N’ Roll You Won’t Save Me (Live) – (Glassnote Music LLC)
Gloria Estefan – Raices – (Sony U.S. Latin)
Don Felder – The Vault: Fifty Years of Music – (Frontiers Records)
Ronnie Romero – Live at Rock Imperium Festival – (Frontiers Records)
Taj Mahal / Keb’ Mo’ – Room on the Porch – (Concord Records)
Big Daddy Weave – Let It Begin – (Curb Records)
Green Day – Saviors (edition de luxe) – (Reprise Records)
Joe Jonas – Music For People Who Believe in Love – (Republic Records / UMG)
Sports Team – Boys These Days – (Bright Antenna Entertainment / AWAL)
Cardinal Black – Midnight at The Valencia – (Jump In Records / Thirty Tigers)
Stereolab – Instant Holograms on Metal Film – (Duophonic)
The SteelDrivers – Outrun – (Sun Records)
Sparks – MAD! – (Transgressive)
Firefall – Friends And Family 2 – (Firetours Inc / Sunset Blvd Records)
Feversea – Man Under Erasure – (Dark Essence Records)
Witchcraft – Idag – (Heavy Psych Sounds)
OnSlaught – Origins of Aggression – (Reigning Phoenix Music)
Crystal Spiders – Metanoia – (Ripple Music)
Unmerciful – Devouring Darkness – (Willowtip)
Unantastbar – Fur Immer Wir – (Napalm Records)
Age of Apocalypse – In Oblivion – (Closed Casket Activities)
St. Johns Wood Affair – 2 – (Think Like A Key Music / Keith Smart)
Cindytalk – Camouflage Heart – (Dais Records)
Charmer – Downpour – (Counter Intuitive Records)
Skunk Anansie – The Painful Truth – (Boogooyamma / Frontiers Records)
These New Puritans – Crooked Wing – (Domino Recordings)
House of Protection – Outrun You All – (Red Bull Records)
Amble – Reverie – (Warner Records / Amble Music Ltd)
Morgan Wallen – I’m The Problem – (Big Loud Records / Mercury Records)
Giant – Stand And Deliver – (Frontiers Records)
Bury Tomorrow – Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience – (Music For Nations)
Sleep Theory – Afterglow – (Epitaph)
Kadavar – I Just Want to Be A Sound – (Clouds Hill)
Confessions of a Traitor – This Pain Will Serve You – (Facedown Records)
Larcenia Roe – Extraction – (Unique Leader Records)
Kaleo – Mixed Emotions – (Atlantic Records)
INXS – Listen Like Thieves (40th Anniversary Edition) – (Atlantic Records)
Maren Morris – Dreamsicle – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
Behemoth – The Shit Ov God – (Nuclear Blast)
Sleep Token – Even in Arcadia – (RCA Records)
Candlemass – Black Star E.P. – (Napalm Records)
Arcade Fire – Pink Elephant – (Arcade Fire Music)
Eric Church – Evangeline vs. The Machine – (EMI Records / BigEC Records)
Pink Floyd – Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII – (Legacy Recordings)
Suzanne Vega – Flying With Angels – (Cooking Vinyl Records)
Josh Groban – Gems – (Reprise Records)
Pet Shop Boys – Dreamland: The Greatest Hits Live – (Parlophone Records / x2 Recordings)
The Flower Kings – Love – (InsideOutMusic)
Cat Stevens – Saturnight (Cat Stevens Live in Tokyo) – (Universal Music / Cat-O-Log Records / UMG)
Maddie And Tae – Love & Light – (Mercury Nashville / UMG Recordings)
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