Top 10 Christian Albums of 2006

10. Phil Wickham by Phil Wickham
Phil Wickham's debut self-titled album has been gaining him a lot attention, and having his hit song "Grace" as a free song download of the week on iTunes and a tour with MercyMe and Audio Adrenaline probably didn't hurt either. Phil Wickham is a new acoustic rock artist who has a very talented voice and all of his songs are passionately delivered. Many people compare him to sounding like Jason Morant and other similar artists. The comparisons are accurate but in that also lies my only problem with Phil Wickham. He sounds like a bunch of other people. Amazing voice but since his album doesn't sound any different than say six or seven other artists it fails to make it any higher on the list.

9. Autobiography: The Best of Scott Krippayne by Scott Krippayne
Scott Krippayne might not be a real well-known name in the Christian music industry but he's had several hit songs since the early '90s. All of Scott Krippayne's lyrics touch the heart and are from the soul. Autobiography does a good job of collecting the best songs from Scott Krippayne's recent career although I thought there should be a few more songs from earlier in his career.

8. Turn Around by Jonny Lang
One of the things I hate more than anything is when an artist has a really good album and then you're looking really forward to their next album. Then once you've purchased the album you find out the artist decided to completely change their style of music and it's not any good. Fortunately for Jonny Lang he is one of the few that has completely changed and remained good. Lang's 2003 album Long Time Coming was a blues guitar album and somewhere between now and then Lang's music turned into R&B, like a Christian Stevie Wonder. I still prefer the twang of Lang's blues guitar over Lang's falsetto but he can do no wrong going either route.