New Derek Webb Album

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This is the best news I’ve gotten all day! Derek Webb will be releasing his follow-up release to She Must And Shall Go Free on June 8. His first album is one of my top picks from 2003 and has quickly become one of my all-time favorite albums. So naturally I am quite excited to learn his sophmore album is coming out so soon. It sounds quite unusual actually. “this will be a ‘must-have’ record – a bare-bones music and teaching counterpart to Derek’s critically acclaimed debut record, “She Must And Shall Go Free.””

If you order now from Webb’s Web site you will receive the album two weeks before the release date and it will be signed by the artist.

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