Listening to
Lincoln Brewster is eerily like listening to
Keith Urban, although instead of singing about romantic love, the open road and the secular joys of a new dawn and day,
Brewster is singing about God, and that’s a slightly different agenda, although the search and need for love is still at the core of it.
Real Life is
Brewster's seventh album, and it’s a crisp outing, full of energy and pop dynamics -- it sounds, really, like a contemporary country album, which means it has way more
Eagles in its DNA than it does
Merle Haggard or
George Strait. It sounds radio ready, but this is pop music bent to utility -- it’s praise and worship stuff (
Brewster is, after all, the worship arts pastor at Bayside Church in Sacramento, CA and is a columnist for Worship Musician magazine). Among the highlights here are the upbeat opener, “Best Days,” and the redemption-seeking “Reaching for You.” ~ Steve Leggett