So often, the closing song on an album carries a significant weight of meaning, depth, and honesty. We are featuring all final album tracks on this episode, including songs by Tal & Acacia, Andrew Osenga, Griffin House, and Sara Groves.

This July we held the biggest event of UTR's year, Escape To The Lake 2015. In this episode, we bring you an audio recap including testimonials from artists and attendees, LIVE performances from the Main Stage, and THREE radio world premiere songs!

We revisit this episode from UTR's 2nd year which featured songs on the theme of Redemption - including Sandra McCracken, Downhere, Andrew Peterson, and Johnny Cash.

We were thrilled to welcome Josh Garrels back to UTR for one more week - this time not as an interview guest, but rather as guest co-host. Yes, Josh is in charge of all the music this hour!

In 2013, we had Josh Garrels on the show to talk about his art, inspirations, and the changing culture of the music industry.

We travel back in the archives for this classic hour of UTR, including exclusive interview clips of each artist sharing the story behind one of their songs - including Jon Troast, Ginny Owens, The Farewell Drifters, Andrew Peterson, Phil Keaggy, & more.

We revisit the time that Andrew Peterson joined us and was in charge to pick out all the music - great stuff. Plus AP shares an in-studio performance.

This flashback episode from 2013 features modern remakes of classic hymns from the likes of David Crowder, Cindy Morgan, and Benjamin Dunn & Friends.

We put our Critics Panel to work once again, this time to focus on the best individual songs that really perked their ears in the first half of 2015 - including tracks by Nichole Nordeman, The Lone Bellow, and 16-yr-old Gracie Schram.

At this half-way point of 2015, we put our Critics Panel to work to pick out some of the best albums released in the first half of 2015 - including music by Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors, Sufjan Stevens, Andrew Osenga, and Josh Garrels.