Andrew Peterson is tagged as: christian, folk, acoustic, contemporary christian, christian folk Andrew Peterson - The Far Country In the early-80s, Andrew Peterson was a little kid who loved adventure. When he wasn’t staging make-believe wars with GI Joe and building forts in the backyard, he was getting lost inside Hardy Boys mysteries, Lewis’s enchanted Narnia, and Tolkein’s hobbit-lurking Shire. Throughout his adolescence in rural Florida, these stories sparked Peterson’s imagination and soon he began conjuring his own fantastic tales, inventing far-away lands and unusual creatures to inhabit them. Twenty-five years later, Peterson’s love of storytelling has remained a vital part of his life. He’s either huddled down flipping pages for his young sons Aedan and Jesse and their little sister Skye, or he’s out on the edge of a stage, spinning tales as one of today’s most prolific songwriters. With his sixth album releasing August 2005, Peterson invites us on yet another journey to someplace unexpected, The Far Country. Meister Eckhart wrote, “God is at home. We are in the far country.” Peterson read the quote in a book by Annie Dillard a few years ago and scribbled it in his journal. “It expressed so simply the way I feel about life on this earth, and my heart resounded with the truth of it,”... Read More About Andrew Peterson Biography... Send Andrew Peterson ringtones to your cell |
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