The Unfinished Music of Justin Brock
Justin Brock is a singer/songwriter from Mississippi - the kind of songwriter without any hits, albums or fans. Basically, a nobody in the music industry. These are the unrecorded albums of Justin Brock.
Not All the Blood - A collection of hymn arrangements that I started using devotionally in 1996. Since I have failed to learn how to read music, and since most of the arrangements have no correlation to the original settings, I call them ruined hymns.
Rebuild These Ruins - This album has existed in my mind since 2000. The songs have all been written, I just haven’t recorded it yet. Rebuild These Ruins is full of songs about brokenness, but it is laced with the hope that a devastated life may be rebuilt.

Locust Years - Locust Years spans a decade of my songwriting. The first song was written in 1999 - the last in 2009. The album is a chronicle of sorts. I find myself digging up Jews with all my Old Testament allusions, but the emotions and hurts are nonetheless my own.

400 Years of Silence - 400 Years of Silence is the least finished of all my albums. I have only written the title track. The vision is to create a Christmas/winter album full of allusions to well-known hymns. If I write it like I dream it, the songs will help remove the blindness of familiarity and give the listener a fresh view on the truths in the old songs.


I watched The Elf over Christmas with my wife and some friends. Afterward, the thought occurred to me the the movie was, in part at least, about the awkwardness of public singing. I was only half joking.



