Light Up the Stairs

The Welcome Wagon is a married couple, the Reverend Thomas Vito Aiuto and his wife Monique, who execute a genre of gospel music that is refreshingly plain. Their hymns are modest and melodic takes on a vast history of sacred song traditions, delivered with the simple desire to know their Maker-and to know each other-more intimately.

Light Up The Stairs, the fourth studio album and Gospel Song Records debut for the duo, is an expansion of their much beloved sound. It's loose, it's jangly; it's comfortable gathering of friends making music together. At times, it can be jaunty and toe-tapping, at others quietly contemplative. This charming quality is precisely what sets them apart from the standard fare of contemporary liturgical music. It doesn't feign emotion; it doesn't pander to stylistic pretensions; it doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is: the result of countless, informal social exchanges between friends. A home-cooked meal followed by a few microphones taped to folding chairs. A family gathering, a summary of happy noises, and a room crowded with familiar faces.

TRACKS:

1. Galatians 2:20

2. All These Trees

3. HCQ1

4. In The Garden

5. Light Up The Stairs

6. St. Tom's Lullaby

7. The Outside Road

8. Maybe You're Right

9. Follow

10. It's So Hard

11. Lamb of God

12. The Greatest Gift