Carrie is a touchstone of authenticity in an image-driven, media-defined musical world. She is a beautiful singer and songwriter, and deeply refreshing.
— Rosanne Cash
To my mind - a writer’s mind - Carrie Newcomer is much more than a musician. She’s a poet, storyteller, snake-charmer, good neighbor, friend and lover, minister of the wide-eyed gospel of hope and grace. All this, and she comes with a voice that declares, “Sit down here a minute and listen.” Who could ask for more?
— Barbara Kingsolver
Author, "The Poisonwood Bible"
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I love Carrie Newcomer. She writes and sings about what is most personal to her and in doing so she speaks to the wider world. Her new cd, “The Geography of Light” is full of gorgeous arrangements that frame her soulful vocals, and the song “Geodes” will make you catch your breath with its wisdom and beauty...”
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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I feel the same way every time I hear Carrie sing—amazed, inspired, and envious. Envious that someone can capture in one sentence a feeling that takes me a book to describe. I’m not sure how such a gift is acquired, whether an angel flitted down from heaven and anointed her at birth, or if her music came by dint of hard work and sweat, but I’m leaning toward the angel theory. There are folks who write well and folks who sing well. But only a relative few who do both well, who can find the just-right word, match it to the just-right note, then sing it with the just-right voice. There are singers more widely known, but few who sing so lovely, so consistently beautifully year after year, each collection of songs better, stronger, more winsome, than the one before it. The Geography of Light will only build her legend.”
— Philip Gulley
Author, "Front Porch Tales and If Grace is True"
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It is a mark of spiritual range as well as artistic virtuosity when a singer-songwriter can make dance one moment, laugh the next, and then take you to a deeply moving, even prayerful place, as she touches on regret, loss, or grief, or on the wonder of being alive. Carrie’s music does all of this for me and more.”
— Parker J. Palmer
Author, "Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach"
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Carrie Newcomer inspires me. She integrates her music and lyrics with her faith and passion for justice. Her music tells stories of the lives and struggles, the hopes and dreams, of immigrants, single mothers and -wage workers. They are stories of real life that teach spiritual truths. And hovering over all the stories "there is a spirit moving" -a spirit of hope and grace, a spirit calling us to "be not afraid.”
— Jim Wallis
Bestselling Author, "God's Politics: What the Right Gets Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get"
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Its rare in this bruised world to find power coupled with tenderness, but that's what you find in Carrie Newcomer, the person and the performer, the writer and the singer. . . The artistry in these songs is dazzling, and so is the honesty.”
— Scott Russell Sanders
Author, "A Short History of Awe and Writing From the Center"
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Carrie Newcomer writes from what she knows, what she sees, and what she is moved byShe writes songs for the heart, from the heart -- and she writes them well.”
— The Phantom Toolbooth: Gateway to Music and More from a Christian Perspective
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Carrie Newcomer has created a tapestry of character sketches, common-sense wisdom, and moments of human contact that normally slip past us, amplified here into the acts of grace.”
— Image Magazine: Faith, Art and Mystery
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Carrie Newcomer is a Quaker lighting candles.”
— Christianity Today
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Newcomer's strong, tender voice touches on the grace of everyday things-good soft towels, laundry hanging out to dry, eggs "frying like psalms," and the "little earthquakes" that happen as we love each other. Evil certainly exists, but Spirits is a quiet, tenacious reminder that life teems with beauty and redemption is everywhere we look.”
— Sojourners Magazine