source: Mindy Gledhill's Facebook page

While surfing YouTube lately, I stumbled upon the music of an artist called Mindy Gledhill. She's one of those folksy singer-songwriters, the kind that was really, really popular (particularly in commercials) a few years ago. I do love my folksy singer-songwriters, but even within that genre, I find that there are wildly different sounds: there are the really cheerful ones who sound like they should be singing nursery rhymes, and there are the more somber, borderline depressing ones. I like them all, but I find that I tend to listen less to the really cheerful ones, unless I'm really looking for something to cheer me up.

Mindy Gledhill has definitely evolved into a singer-songwriter on the cheerful side of the genre. (It seems she started out as a Christian/Gospel singer.) Here are some of my favorite songs of hers ...