I wanted to say a bit more about that!
I like to listen to lots of different types of music depending on my mood, the type of day it is, and more often than not, my passengers!! Of course by that I mean my children. I know there were years when all I heard was abc songs and veggie tales songs, and sesame street songs, and lullaby songs. I loved that time in my life, but am glad to have moved on the more complicated music!!
My go to radio station is 89.3FM, KSBJ. It is a christian music station here in the Houston area which you can also listen to via the web!
Here is that web address. I pull it up when I am close to the computer and need something encouraging to listen to.
It is through this station that I have learned of so many Christian artists who I would probably never thought to even look for.
Chris Rice has got to be one of my all time favorites. His music is a bit folksy, with a touch of rock to it. But more than anything I love his message. He sings about heaven, loving like Jesus and whole lot about how nature declares our Maker, and coffee. hee hee!!
Matthew West is another of my more recent favorites. His song "You Are Everything" is so genius!!! It has a counter melody in stringed instruments and piano that flows through the song...ahhhhh it gets me every time...genius!!!!
I also enjoy Leeland, mainly because I saw them in concert with Brandon Heath and they have an obvious deep love for Jesus that comes through so clearly in their music.
Oh, and have you heard Amy Grants new song "Better Than a Hallelujah"?
Oh, my!!!
Beautiful, thoughtful...gorgeous!
I have been going to the same church now for 16 years now. I have never lived anywhere this long and treasure the church family that I worship with each week.
As I have gotten older and more aware of others I have come to appreciate a few people of talent and wonder around here.
You know how you can know someone, but not really know them? They reveal little treasures of information a little at a time over the years and finally all the pieces start falling into place. Then all of a sudden you realize this person has made a difference in their area of expertise and are sharing it with others. I have a rather large number of these people in my life right now. Maybe I always have, but am finally mature enough to take notice!!
So, I am gonna go out on a limb here today...I say that because I didn't talk to this particular fellow about mentioning him in my blog, but I have nothing but good stuff to say so I will ask for forgiveness instead of permission.
For years, I have thought of Sonny Taylor as just "our Sunday morning song leader". Well, he recently did a class on Wednesday nights for us which taught everything from different types of note reading to the history of a'cappella music in America as well as biographies of some of the great hymn writers in recent history. Ha, my husband just came by and pointed out that 300 years or so might not be considered recent. I am an artist...numbers mean nothing to me!!!
This man has some crazy amounts of musical knowledge.
And a website! What? He has a website, and publications and, and, and...all kinds of stuff I don't understand...just leave it said that he is not JUST the song leader!
When we moved into our new home he and his wife gifted us a couple of CD's as a housewarming gift. I am sure he didn't know just how much I would enjoy them!!!
My favorite of the two is shown just below. I pulled that right off of his website, because it lists the other CD's from that group. It is just straight up a'cappella classic 4 part harmony type music. I mean, it might be more technical than that, but I can pick out my part and sing along just fine!
Main Section - Praise Hymnal - Let Us Adore CD C131
| This CD covers the last 21 songs in the Praise Hymnal, 2008. Songs include: Let Us Adore * A New Anointing * I Bow Down * The Glorious Impossible * In the Name of the Lord * Come Thou Fount, Come Thou King * Come Dwell in Me * Above All * The Power of the Cross * In Christ Alone * Oh the Blood * For All You've Done * Holy Holy * Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross-Boyd Arr. * A Mansion Robe and Crown * How Great is Our God * Surround Us O Lord * Father God * Majesty Here I Am * Blessed Be Your Name * We Declare that the Kingdom of God is Here
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That is my favorite Sonny CD also. Also...did you know that Chris Rice doesn't even like coffee????
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