A few more musician followers this week. I hope my sharing your music will get word out about your music. Please take time to listen/share/purchase the song I wrote with the wonderful Lily Messer and Ceylon Wise at the bottom of this page. Thank for the follows.
My Girl’s Hand by Mitch Goudy –
She’s My Kinda Party by Dana Michael –
Moving On by Waiting Hill –
Juliet by Anastasis (Jacob’s Well Records) –
Some new music from non-followers I have been listening to this week:
This Corner by Denaun –
Love You More by Nichole Nordeman –
Airplane by Langhorne Slim –
Another Man’s Words by Vintage Trouble –
Every Giant Will Fall by Rend Collective –
Blind Love by Bon Jovi –
Father I Stretch by Kim Burrell –
He Knows What He’s Doing by Jason Crabb –
Break by Katharine McPhee –
How Did You Love by Shinedown –
December by Neck Deep –
Driftwood by Cody Simpson –
Eye Of The Storm by Scorpions –
Real Men Love Jesus by Michael Ray –
Everything Breaks by Jewel –
Who remembers this oldie:
December 1963 (Oh, What A Night) by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons –
and our song:
I Question You by Lily Messer –
Now on i tunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-question-you-single/id1018588943
A few more new musician followers this week to give a shout out to. Think if this keeps up I might have to start doing two of these a week. Thanks for the follows. Don’t forget to check out our song on the bottom and feel free to share it.
Tate Olsen- cellist for Skillet –
Raised By A Good Time by Steven Lee Olsen-
Never Walk Away by Sleep Signals –
Transformed by Survivor Q –
Star in Your Car by Genny Sokoli –
No Distance by Those Among Us –
When You’re Not Looking by Alyssa Mae –
Good People by Silvertrain –
Let’s Make It Last by Michael Danielson –
Rise Up by Cenacle –
Final Seconds by Lord (Andy Dowling) –
Call My Name by Melancholic Metamorphosis –
Our song:
I Question You by Lily Messer –
Now on i tunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-question-you-single/id1018588943
Here is the official, last version, mastered, edited, mixed etc version of the song.
I need help and prayers though.
When I do something, I usually go big. I want the best results. I want to be faster each race I run. I want the world to read my blogs, listen to my music, but what does God want?
We are not putting it on itunes yet because we are praying on where we should go. Ceylon Wise, who produced, mixed and mastered the song, is taking a leap of faith and starting his own record label. We could sign with him, which means the rest of our songs would get recorded without any out of pocket expense from us. He would get more royalties since he is taking the chance of recording the EP, which really doesn’t bother us any. We are wanting to get the music out there to have an affect on peoples lives and have the songs touch people. If we sign with him, he wants to get rest of EP done then release the song on itunes.
Answer to our prayers right?
So what’s the problem?
I feel like I want to get the song out to bigger labels and see what happens. Everyone that has heard the song and Lily’s voice is telling me it is good and she should be on the radio.
Is this what God wants though?
It would be exciting to be with a start up label and maybe be one of the founding artists that helps it grow. It would be exciting to be heard on the radio and be on a big label, if God leads us that way, but would we get lost in the shuffle.
Speak to me God, I will wait and listen. Lead me in the way you want us to go. Lead us to what will glorify your name the most. Lead us to what will touch someones life.
All Beauty Fades by One Less Reason – I stumbled on these guys a few years back and I don’t think there is a song by them I don’t like, so they get two here.
Life In The Way by One Less Reason –
Amen by Matt Papa – older song but it always touches me
Fight Song by Rachel Platten –
Clair Huxtable by Louis York –
God Held Me Together by Zacardi Cortez – older but new to me
Here is our song. This isn’t the final version because it still needs mastered and tweaked a little but this is pretty much it. I wrote the lyrics, Lily Messer is the voice and did some of the music- she is amazing and every time I hear her sing she just captivates me, David McGuire who also is part of our church is on drums and Ceylon Wise from too wise productions did the rest of the music and mixing and production work.
This is how amazing God works and how it is all in His time. I wrote this song five years ago and when I was throwing away everything else I wrote, for some reason I kept this one. Five years ago Kylie started kindergarten and out of three teachers she could’ve had, she had Mrs. Chaffin. Over the next year or so I had thoughts to give the song to our worship leader or see if he knew anyone that would do it but God kept telling me to wait. Fast forward a few years and our church had a senior graduation party for the seniors, which Kayhla was one. While we were there, the band played and Lily, who was a junior, was one of the singers. When I heard her voice the world stopped and God said that’s who I want you to give the song to. I wasn’t listening to God then because I still had fear and didn’t think the song was anything. Fast forward seven months and my wife gets her personal training certificate. Two months after that she runs into Mrs. Chaffin at the park and she knew Kim ran and worked out so she asked Kim if she had her personal training certificate. Why yes she does, she just got it. Turns out Mrs. Chaffin’s husband ran his own personal training business and needed help. Kim signed on. Six months later Mr. Chaffin decided he was going to give the business to my wife and help out his brother-in-law in a production company. Kim took over and renamed it 5k’s Healthy Ways. Five months after that Lily sung in front of the main worship center and her parents just happened to be sitting beside us and I told them how amazing Lily was. Her mom Katie said you should tell her that because she is thinking about quitting, doesn’t think she is good. I was listening to God now so I told her and we connected and I gave her this song. Nine months later Lily went to college. I was fine with waiting, it’s already been five years. All in God’s time. Lily decided to come back home over winter break and we talked and started to get the ball rolling, but we didn’t have anyone to write music and produce for us. Then Kim said, you know Mr. Chaffin went to producing with his brother-in-law. I reached out to Mr. Chaffin and he connected me to Ceylon Wise of too wise productions and here we are. Sorry a long paragraph but see how God has worked over five years putting all these pieces in place. It is amazing.
We also need help with donations to finish the ep or cd. Each song is around $500. I paid for this song to be done and we have $200 in donations so far. That leaves $1800 to finish 5 songs. It seems like a lot but that is only $10 for 180 people. (and you get a copy of the cd when it is done).
Ask anyone that knows me and I am not one to ask for help or to owe anyone. I am really out of my comfort zone, all this is out of my comfort zone, by asking for help but God has brought me this far. I trust He will do the rest. I could get it done by putting on credit card but maybe this is God reaching out to some of you. Maybe the call isn’t for you to donate but to share with someone that could. Beats me, however the song moves you and God asks you to move I just pray we listen.
Let me know what you think. Do you like it? Not like it? Think you could hear it on the radio? Think it will move people that hear it? This is my first attempt at a video also so…Feel free to share it.
Also if you like my blogs, please hit the follow button and follow me. I am not sure how all this social media works but maybe the more followers I get, the more word gets out and more people will read and be moved by God.
In trying to keep the music relevant to the posts, I am not being able to get some artists out there that I think should be heard. I came up with new music Friday, give all of you all weekend to listen. I will try to to have one song from country, christian, pop, rock, r&b and gospel. Sometimes there may be two from one category and sometimes there may not be any from a category. Keep in mind these are new, forgotten and unknown songs/ artists that I am just now discovering or remembering. They could be very popular.
My God, My Music, My Life 