Recording :: Recovering Our Creative Calling

Yesterday was awesome.  It was full of awesomeness.  I spent time with four young people with whom I served this summer at Institute, a United Methodist youth camp held at Baker University.  We visited my friend Kevin Norris, who runs a sound and production company called GroovySoul, and my musician friends laid down four tracks. [...]

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Words and Instrumentation

It is no secret I’m a music geek.  It is also no secret that I am in love with words.  When I was in high school a great deal of my life was determined by music.  My friend Scott Beimler and I would listen carefully to all kinds of music, mining the lyrics for kernels [...]

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J.J. Heller :: Small

Cardboard cutouts on the floor  People wish that you were more like what they wanted you to be Eventually they won’t have much of you at all in their theology  The walls are closing in on you You cannot be contained at all I don’t want to make you small I don’t want to fit [...]

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Springsteen. Tonight. Sprint Center. I’m there.

I’ll post thoughts after the concert.  Until then here are a couple of YouTube videos that have prepped me for the E Street madness. BtoR Born in the USA Glory Days Pink Cadillac Radio Nowhere

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Amazing Grace

Thanks to Rene’ Evans for passing on this link, which features the video seen below.  Enjoy.  

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Old News :: Radiohead’s In Rainbows is Phenomenal

Some of you may have heard about Radiohead’s move to make their latest album, In Rainbows, available as an online download.  What was unique about this was Radiohead’s decision to make the album available without a set price.  In fact, the person downloading the album could give what they thought the music was worth.   The album was available for [...]

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Expectations :: A Pause for Thought

Caedmon’s Call Expectations :: From the 2007 release Overdressed That boy had the highest of expectations And he heard that Jesus would fill him up Maybe something got lost in the language If this was full, then why bother? This was not the way it looked on the billboard Smiling family beaming down on the [...]

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SP00N to Visit KC

If I recall correctly, back in 2000 (or early 2001) Spoon’s “Lines in the Suit” was featured on Napster as a “Download of the Day” and I jumped on it.  This was back when online file sharing was completely out of control–and I loved it.  Napster, Limewire, and other file sharing networks provided a space where my musical [...]

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