I’m really looking forward to hanging out with some new faces in the 129 crew this coming weekend! Pastor James asked me to lead music and said Megan could come, too! Score. We’re hoping to relax, take a few walks in the woods, and make a few new friends. (College Group, we’re not leaving you! so don’t be worried…)
This weekend I’ll be showcasing a few songs from College Group’s upcoming hymns album release. Wow, that’s difficult to say! There’s a lot to be done to pull the project together!
So, I think that some of you are already aware of this, but over the last two months, I’ve been working on a new record with my church – the first ever put out by the college group (“COLLEGE GROUP”, as it’s called). Anyway, I was sitting in front of my Mac, recording some perc, and listening down to what I’ve worked on with a pair of JBL Control 1 speakers, and I realized something: as much as I am working, I am being blessed by the music and lyrics of the songs.
Now let me back up a little here: First of all, when I say “blessed”, I mostly mean the same way that anyone can be “blessed” in life – not in a hyper- wacky-spiritual way… Second of all, when I say “hymns” it usually leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths. Don’t let it! Trust me, the last thing you’d find me doing is recording some old dude behind an organ with a church congregation singing along. This is a ROCK album – ala Jars of Clay’s “Redemption Songs”. Anyway, I think you’ll love it. It will be out somewhere around the beginning of the Spring college semester of this year (Spring 2008).