"We're looking at music from the divine liturgy, labor songs and love songs, " said Mr. Tritle, adding that he hopes to present music from around the world as a way of matching the church's international outreach.
With track titles like "29 Acts of Love, " "Lovers In The Bathroom, " and "Love Songs, " it's clear the Los Angeles-based trio Gliss concerns itself largely with matters of the heart.
Freud has it that we become ill if we do not love, and songs tell us we must succumb to a love that - bonding us - will devastate us too.
His style is rooted in the Gypsy Lautari tradition of slowly paced melancholy love songs, laments and drinking songs.
Dekker and his backup singers, a group of brothers dubbed The Four Aces, produced a string of hits, mostly love ballads and songs with hints of religion or advice to parents.
With his band Red House Painters, he took things like "Long Distance Runaround" by Yes and Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs, " slowed them way down and gave them entirely new emotional meaning, which to me is the mark of a truly great cover version.
For many, Thanksgiving is all about traveling home to be with loved ones, so to mark the holiday, Melissa Block travels to Nashville to hear country-inflected singer-songwriter Kim Richey and her band perform songs about home, travel and love.
The melodies are catchy and fun, but at the heart of his songs are themes of love and heartbreak.
When Neko Case toured in support of 2006's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, she claimed that she didn't like love songs, and that she was incapable of writing one.
The singer and songwriter, 68, whose tracks include Across 110th Street and Lookin' For a Love, said he had trouble remembering songs and names.
The timid 1940s had tragic films with the hero and heroine thwarted in the path of love and dying singly or together while singing memorable songs.
Dylan's long marriage to Sara Lowndes inspired some of the finest songs about love and loss ever.
But even with more orchestrated songs of love and hope, Infinite Light remains somewhat elusive, with a sound that belongs, unmistakably, to Lightning Dust.
" 'I Can't Make You Love Me, ' 'Angel From Montgomery, ' 'Something to Talk About, ' you know, people who haven't seen me in a long time, they love those songs, and they're the ones who paid for the tour bus, " she said.
Their latest album, Infinite Light (which you can hear in its entirety here, two weeks before its release), illuminates the dark corridors of the duo's earlier work with uplifting, if mysterious, songs of love and all we do to find and hold on to it.
This was immediately followed by her hit songs Crazy In Love and Baby Boy.
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But as it turns out, such frailty is well suited for bittersweet love songs about missed connections and doomed romances.
Huge metallic claws resting on uplit pedestals compete for attention against giant inflatable rats singing love songs to each other and a boardwalk twisted into rollercoaster-like hoops by a pallet truck.
This disc falls into the latter category, but Lawson expresses his spirituality here via old-fashioned love songs, not honky-tonk love songs, mind you, which usually involve drinking and cheating and possibly firearms.
What's left is two intensely likable people trying urgently, through very few words and a baker's dozen of eloquent songs, to come to terms with love they've lost and collaborate on the future.
La Llorona was a dark, sensual album filled with songs in Spanish about love and loss.
What if you wanted to listen to Coldplay and all you had to do was tell your TV and it responded by playing the Coldplay songs you love?
But it's being presented to you in a whole different fashion, and that's what I really love about cover songs, is their ability to have that kind of balance.
Most country songs are about some sort of love and loss, and they usually tell a story.
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O'Rourke's explanation of "Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage" -- using the thrillers of John Grisham and songs ("noise") of Courtney Love -- is a classic.
For his new album, Other People's Love Songs, Corey Dargel wrote 13 personalized songs on commission for couples of all configurations: Husbands and wives, siblings, and friends.
But on her sixth studio album, due out March 3, Case offers up what she calls "a bunch of love songs, " which are heartbreakingly beautiful and, at times, comical.
Dealing with poverty, love, work, prison and family, these were candid songs about real life and all its hardships.
Her songs tell of long and sometimes desperate searches for love or a little clarity of thought or for instant solutions to life's problems.
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