No new musician follower this week. Take a listen, find some new music to listen to. Please feel free to share/purchase the song I wrote the lyrics to, Lily Messer is the voice and Ceylon Wise is the producer.
Thanks for all the follows, musicians and non-musicians. Some other music from non-followers I have listened to recently. Pick out a few you haven’t heard and take a listen.
Alison Krauss:
River In The Rain
You Don’t Know Me –
Andrew McMahon:
Shot Out Of A Cannon
Walking In My Sleep
Island Radio
Birthday Song-
Blackie & The Rodeo Kings:
Beautiful Scars
Bury My Heart
Long Walk To Freedom
Land Of The Living-
Brantley Gilbert:
The Ones That Like Me
The Weekend
Bro Code
Tried To Tell Ya
Way Back-
Brett Eldredge:
Phone Call To God –
Brooke Eden :
American Dreamer
Diamonds-
CeCe Winans:
He’s Never Failed Me Yet
Dancing In The Spirit
Lowly
Let Them Fall In Love –
Charlie Wilson:
In It To Win It
Better
Made For Love
I’m Blessed
Amazing God –
Delbert McClinton:
Pulling The Strings
Bad Haircut
Rosy-
Dierks Bentley:
Days Of Dark –
Elbow:
Little Fictions
Magnificent (She Says) –
Ellie Holcomb:
Wonderfully Made
You Love Me Best
You Are Loved
Find You Here –
Jake Clemons:
Hold Tight
Janine
Shadow
Just Stay
Fear & Love –
Jean Watson:
Wonder –
Kari Jobe:
The Garden
Let Your Glory Fall
Lover Of My Soul
Heal Our Land
Fall Afresh
Closer To Your Heart
Oh The Power
The Cause Of Christ
I Will Sing
Speak To Me –
Lauren Alaina:
Holding The Other
Pretty
Three
Road Less Traveled –
LeAnn Rimes:
Mother
I Couldn’t Do That To Me-
Little Big Town:
Beat Up Bible
Better Man
When Someone Stops Loving You –
Lupe Fiasco:
Pick Up The Phone –
Muna:
So Special
I Know A Place
Promise
Everything
If U Love Me Now –
Old 97’s:
I Don’t Wanna Die In This Town
All Who Wander
Those Were The Days-
Reba McEntire:
Sing It Now
From The Inside Out
Say A Prayer
There Is A God
Back To God –
Ryan Adams:
Breakdown
Outbound Train
Do You Still Love Me? –
Starset:
Die For You
Ricochet
Satellite
Unbecoming
Last To Fall
Bringing It Down
Monster –
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill:
Keep Your Eyes On Me –
We Are Messengers:
I’ll Think About You-
Zach Williams :
So Good To Me
Fear Is A Liar
To The Table –
and our song:
I Question You by Lily Messer –
On Itunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-question-you-single/id1018588943
The signs of spring are here. Spring training baseball, Nascar had its first race yesterday, people are talking about March Madness, and we had five blue jays in our yard yesterday. That is good news for us that do not like winter, but that is not good news that changes people or the world like the following stories.
Alyssa Kamm thought she had more than two years to plan her wedding. But she found her prep time cut to three weeks after learning her father had cancer.
The abbreviated schedule came courtesy of more than a dozen strangers, business owners and managers throughout Rochester, New York, who donated flowers, a venue, photography, music and numerous other services to help give the bride and her groom their dream wedding on Feb. 4.
Just three weeks earlier, on Jan. 13, Alyssa learned her dad had been diagnosed with advanced multiple myeloma, which affects the bone marrow and quickly weakens the bones. Her dad began chemotherapy treatment immediately.
One of the women shared her family’s story and sought advice about nice but inexpensive venues and services on a Facebook page for Rochester-area wedding vendors.
“It touched my heart and I knew I wanted to be a part of this,” she told TODAY. She immediately began messaging with a good friend of hers who is a DJ and the two “started chatting about who we needed to ‘tag’ in the post and how we could really make this happen for Alyssa and her family.”
Colburn, who donated a full wedding photography package, said she was excited to see the event come together so effortlessly.
“We are surrounded by negativity and sad stories and sometimes it’s easy to forget that there are still good people in the world,” said Colburn, who hopes vendors in other cities “continue to spread the love” by helping others in need.
Alyssa’s dad, Karl Jones, 55, said he was amazed at how so many people he didn’t know coalesced to help his family.
“All the vendors — we call them our fairy god dream team. They didn’t know us, and they just started offering their services and the ball kept on rolling. It shocked me,” he said.
“This is something that makes him happy, to let people know that there are good people in the world we live in,” she said. “This story, even though it’s rooted in something that’s really sad, and it stings for us, it has such a happy ending, and that gives him something to live for.”
source: Eun Kyung Kim -TODAY
February 3 was a big night in Norman, Oklahoma. The Norman High School Lady Tigers basketball team was facing its rival, the Timberwolves of Norman North. By the end of the fourth quarter, the Lady Tigers had a comfortable lead of 57-35 — for all intents and purposes, they had won the game.
But when the coaches sent in one player who had sat on the sidelines all night, everyone in the arena shared a victory.
That player was Lainy Fredrickson — a special-needs senior whose epic basket at the game’s close had the crowd (and the internet) going wild. Detrick Watts, a special education TA and assistant girls’ basketball coach, told TODAY that having Fredrickson on the team is “a blessing.”
“She always puts a smile on everybody’s face,” he said. “You know your day is going to be better just from coming into contact with her.”
“As coaches, you try not to show your emotions, especially during the game,” said Watts. “But the reality sets in that this is something more than basketball … it’s fulfilling a dream. For the coaches, and I think for the players, it’s something I’ll never forget.”
It made a similar impression on Michael Vanderburg, the alum who took the video. “It is a testimony to the awesome community of Norman, Oklahoma, and my alma mater Norman High School, and how there is still hope for humanity out here in this world,” he told TODAY. “If we just focus on the good instead of the bad, we could come together and really make a difference.”
source: Embry Roberts – TODAY
When Todd Steinkamp was told that his car wouldn’t make it all the way to a Wisconsin funeral he wanted to attend, he believed it was the beginning of a terrible day—but he hadn’t yet met the man who would turn it around.
The driver was forced to pull his vehicle into the closest auto repair shop after it started making a dreadful grinding sound midway through his route from Iowa.
The mechanic, Glenn Geib, told Todd that his car would not be able to travel the remaining 70-mile distance to the memorial service.
Things looked bleak, but after seeing Todd’s reaction, Glenn offered up his own wheels as a substitute.
“I must have looked pretty stressed-out at this time because Glenn then reached into his pocket, pulled out the keys to HIS own vehicle and said ‘Take my truck. Fill it up with gas, don’t turn on the emergency lights and get going’,” wrote Todd on Facebook.
Not only was the younger man able to make it to his funeral, but his would-be terrible day was totally turned around.
“We sat and talked for a while when I got back as I thanked him and he told me more about himself. The 74 year-old mechanic with a grip of steel turned a terrible day into a good one with a great lesson… ‘just be kind and help if you can’.”
source : McKinley Corbley – Good News Network
A waitress who did a good deed for a pair of firefighters was overwhelmed when they returned the favor—for her father.
Instead of a bill for their breakfast, Liz Woodward brought a pair of New Jersey firefighters a thank you note. They’d just spent 24 hours battling the blaze at a local warehouse, and the waitress wanted to do something nice for them.
“Your breakfast is on me today,” the note read, along with little drawings of a fire ax and helmet. “Thank you for all that you do.”
Firefighter Tim Young posted the story and a photo of the note to Facebook, urging people to eat at the diner where she worked. But then, he found out the waitress had a GoFundMe campaign that she was using to raise $17,000 to buy her father a wheelchair-accessible van.
Turns out, the young lady who gave us a free meal is really the one that could use the help,” Young wrote in another post.
The firefighter’s plea spread like wildfire. His posts were shared thousands of times and 1,000 people donated more than $67,000 — $50,000 above her goal.
“This is just one example of how so many people in this world have incredible hearts and they pay it forward, so the circle keeps on moving,” Woodward told TODAY.
source: Terry Turner – Good News Network
Of course, there are much, much more but did not want to get this into 2000 words so hopefully, other bloggers joined in today to give us more #goodnews stories.
Check out www.goodnewsnetwork.org, www.huffingtonpost.com/section/good–news, www.sunnyskyz.com/good–news, www.today.com/news/good–news, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news, abcnews.go.com/US/Good_News as well as many others.
It has been awhile since I did one and was thinking we are due.
However, let’s do it together on Monday 2/27. That will give you all weekend to search the internet, magazines, newspapers, news – yeah good luck finding good news stories there.
Then on Monday let’s all post good news stories. Let’s #goodnews and send it out to the blogging world and maybe someone will take notice.
One new musician follower this week. Big list this week but I liked just about every song I heard so…Take a listen, find some new music to listen to. Please feel free to share/purchase the song I wrote the lyrics to, Lily Messer is the voice and Ceylon Wise is the producer. I have many more songs I would like to get out there but can not financially afford to record them. If interested in teaming up together, feel free to contact me.
Awkward by Hailey Knox –
Thanks for all the follows, musicians and non-musicians. Some other music from non-followers I have listened to recently. Pick out a few you haven’t heard and take a listen.
Disciple:
Spirit Fire
Forever Starts Today
Black Hole
Spinning
Empty Grave
God Is With Us –
Flaw:
When You Grieve
My Letter –
Frank Foster:
Good Country Music
Louisiana
Carolina Blue
Pete And John –
I Prevail:
Outcast
Rise
Pull The Plug
One More Time
My Heart I Surrender
Worst Part Of Me –
John Legend:
Same Old Story
History Has Its Eyes On You
Start A Fire
Darkness And Light
How Can I Blame You –
Muddy Magnolias:
Take Me Home
Shine On
It Ain’t Easy
Train
Leave It To The Sky –
Trapt:
Anchor
Getting Even
Fallen Angel
Castaway
Not So Different –
Amber Run:
I Found
5AM
Good Morning
See You Soon –
Alexis Taylor:
Nashville Girl
Until I See You Again-
Ben Abraham :
You And Me
This Is On Me-
Boyce Avenue :
Your Biggest Fan
Lovely Mess-
Brantley Gilbert:
Bullet In A Bonfire
You Could Be That Girl
Three Feet Of Water
We’re Gonna Ride Again-
Bright Light, Bright Light:
I Only Want To Please You
Careful Whisper –
Brooke Eden:
Daddy’s Money
Act Like You Don’t-
Carmen Justice :
Flaming Arrows-
Chris Quilala:
Welcome Here
After My Heart
Only One God
Because Of Your Love
Encounter
The Length Of The Cross
Heart’s Cry
Heaven Came For Me –
Claudia Hoyser:
I Won’t Forget –
Cory Asbury:
Where I Belong –
Danny Gokey:
Masterpiece
Slow Down
Stronger Than We Think
Chasing
What Love Can Do-
Fight The Fade:
Embers ( Beside The Dying Fire)
Lying To Myself (Confessional Of Lies)
New Perspective (Second Horizon)
Prison (Cut Me Off)
Tomorrow –
Gemini Syndrome:
Alive Inside
Remember We Die-
The Gray Havens:
Shadows Of The Dawn
Ghost Of A King
Band Of Gold-
In Flames:
The End
Through My Eyes
Greatest Greed
Save Me –
Japandroids:
True Love And A Free Life Of Free Will
Near To The Heart Of Life-
Joyce Manor:
This Song Is A Mess But So Am I
Do You Really Want To Not Get Better –
Mari Burelle:
It’s A Beautiful Day
If My People Pray-
One Less Reason-
The Lie
One Day
Rainmaker
Sometimes-
Rebecca Ferguson:
Waiting For Me
The Way You’re Looking At Her
Bones –
The Ruins:
Deliverance-
Seth & Nirva:
You Are With Me
Should’ve Been Mine –
Tauren Wells:
Hills And Valleys-
Taylor Noelle:
Too Good-
Tom Chaplin:
See It So Clear
Bring The Rain
Quicksand –
Travis Ryan:
You Never Give Up On Me
Until My Voice Is Gone-
Wolves At The Gate:
The Aftermath
Chasing The Wind
Hindsight-
The XX-
Say Something Loving
I Dare You
Test Me
Performance-
and our song:
I Question You by Lily Messer –
On Itunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-question-you-single/id1018588943
I know it is Monday but wishing it was Friday. Not last Friday since I was a little under the weather.
Two new musician followers this week. Take a listen, find some new music to listen to. Please feel free to share/purchase the song I wrote the lyrics to, Lily Messer is the voice and Ceylon Wise is the producer. I have many more songs I would like to get out there but can not financially afford to record them. If interested in teaming up together, feel free to contact me.
Radiant by Hope City Worship –
Spark by Amy Hooper –
Thanks for all the follows, musicians and non-musicians. Some other music from non-followers I have listened to recently. Pick out a few you haven’t heard and take a listen.
Amanda Shires:
Slippin
I Know What It’s Like
The Way It Dimmed –
American Football:
I’ve Been So Lost for So Long –
Andra Day:
Burn –
Andy Shauf:
Quite Like You –
Ashanti Feat. Ja Rule:
Helpless –
Bizzle:
Royalty
Work It Out
From The Outside –
Bright Light Bright Light :
Little Bit
How Does It Feel
Where Is The Heartache
Running Back To You –
Disciple:
First Love Long Live The Rebels Come My Way Underdog Fight Song Erase –
Dropkick Murphys:
4-15-13 –
Erika Hughes & The Well Mannered:
Solid Ground Songbird Little Bird-
Flaw: Do You Remember Fatal Fall Let Me Go Heal –
Frank Foster:
Unwind Where The Road Gets Rough Red Bird Gabriel –
Grace VanderWaal
Light The Sky Gossip Girl I Don’t Know My Name –
Hart Valley Drifters:
Standing In The Need Of Prayer
Sitting On Top Of The World –
I Prevail :
Stuck In Your Head
Lifelines
Come And Get It
Chaos
Alone
Scars –
In Flames:
Greatest Greed
Wallflower –
John Legend:
Love Me Now
Surefire
Right By You (For Luna)
I Know Better –
Kelly Clarkson:
It’s Quiet Uptown –
Kevin Devine:
Before You’re Here –
Kevin Fowler:
Livin’ Proof
A Guy Like That
The Bouncer
He Ain’t No Cowboy
Sellout Song (Featuring Zane Williams)
Texas Forever –
Margaret Glaspy:
Situation Somebody To Anybody –
Muddy Magnolias:
Brother, What Happened?
Got It Goin’ On
Why Don’t You Stay?
Broken People –
Nas, Dave East, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Aloe Blacc:
Wrote My Way Out –
Neil Young:
Indian Givers
Glass Accident
Terrorist Suicide Hang Gliders –
Placebo:
Too Many Friends
Breathe Underwater (Slow)
Bright Lights
Broken Promise
A Million Little Pieces
Running Up That Hill –
Radkey:
Hunger Pain
Feed My Brain
Marvel –
Regina Spektor Feat. Ben Folds:
Dear Theodosia –
Rhonda Vincent:
Midnight Angel
I’ve Forgotten You
You Don’t Love God
The Old Rugged Cross
If We Would Just Pray –
Rich Robinson:
The Upstairs Land
Life
For To Give
Surrender
The Music That Will Lift Me –
The Roots Feat. Common & Ingrid Michaelson:
Who Tells Your Story –
Sho Baraka:
Words, 2006 –
Sting:
I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
If You Can’t Love Me
The Empty Chair –
The Sword:
Empty Temples [Acoustic]
Seriously Mysterious [Acoustic] –
Trapt:
Human (Like The Rest Of Us)
It’s Over
Changing Hands
Unforgiven
Passenger –
Two Door Cinema Club:
Lavender
Invincible –
Usher:
Wait For It-
The Weeknd:
Secrets
True Colors
Nothing Without You
Die For You
I Feel It Coming –
and our song:
I Question You by Lily Messer –
On Itunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-question-you-single/id1018588943
It has been a few weeks so maybe some of these would be considered classics by now.
Three new musician followers this week. Take a listen, find some new music to listen to. Please feel free to share/purchase the song I wrote the lyrics to, Lily Messer is the voice and Ceylon Wise is the producer. I have many more songs I would like to get out there but can not financially afford to record them. If interested in teaming up together, feel free to contact me.
Lanterns ( In The Dark) by Fight The Fade –
Nashville Girl by Alexis Taylor –
Get Spun by Shadow –
Thanks for all the follows, musicians and non-musicians. Some other music from non-followers I have listened to recently. Pick out a few you haven’t heard and take a listen.
Bradley Walker:
Why Me
Call Me Old Fashioned
I Count My Blessings
Sing Me To Heaven
Don’t Give Up On Me
Pray For God
The Right Hand of Fellowship
His Memory Walks On Water
With His Arms Wide Open
In The Time That You Gave Me
I Feel Sorry For Them –
Bruno Mars:
Straight Up & Down –
Butch Walker:
Wilder In The Heart –
Childish Gambino:
Stand Tall-
Confederate Railroad:
Lucky To Be Alive
Played The Game
If I Ever Cross That Line
Somebody Like You
Goodbye Song –
Delain:
Hurricane –
The Devil Makes Three:
The Angel Of Death
Come On Up To The House –
DNCE:
Almost
Blown
Truthfully –
Donovan Woods:
The First Time
Do I Know Your Name
Leaving Nashville –
Elizabeth Chan:
The Prayer –
Emeli Sande:
Selah
Happen
Right Now
Shakes
I’d Rather Not
Lonely
Sweet Architect –
Empire Of The Sun
Two Vines –
Frank Foster:
Red Bird
Louisianna
Carolina Blue –
Garth Brooks:
Weekend
Ask Me How I Know
Pure Adrenaline
Cowboys And Friends –
Gord Downie:
Don’t Let This Touch You –
Grouplove:
Welcome To Your Life
Good Morning
Don’t Stop Making It Happen –
Jamestown Revival:
Company Men
Poor Man’s Gold
Almost All The Time –
Joey & Rory:
If I Needed You
Nothing To Remember
That’s Important To Me
In The Time That You Gave Me –
Kevin Morby:
Dorothy
Black Flowers –
Little Mix:
No More Sad Songs –
Martha Wainwright:
Traveller
One Of Us –
Miranda Lambert:
You Wouldn’t Know Me
Pushin’ Time
Use My Heart
Good Ol’ Days
Things That Break
For The Birds
I’ve Got Wheels
We Should Be Friends –
The Naked And The Famous:
Higher
Falling –
Neil Young:
Indian Givers –
NOFX:
I Don’t Like Me Anymore
I’m So Sorry Tony –
Olivia Newton-John :
My Heart Goes Out To You
Immortality
Don’t KNow What To Say
Impossible
There’s Still My Joy –
The Piano Guys:
Okay –
Rachael Yamagata:
Money Fame Thunder –
Reckless Kelly:
How Can You Love Him
The Champ
Forever Today
Volcano
Who’s Gonna Be Your Baby Now
Moment In The Sun –
Rend Collective:
Free As A Bird
Live Alive –
The Rolling Stones:
I Can’t Quit You Baby –
Rumer:
A House Is Not A Home
What The World Needs Now Is Love-
Sam Roberts Band:
If You Want It
Lake Effect –
Set It Off:
Uncontainable
Upside Down
Admit It
Never Know
Me W/O Us –
Sho Baraka:
Here
Fathers –
Sully Erna:
Your Own Drum
Falling To Black –
William Michael Morgan:
Vinyl
I Met A Girl
Spend It All On You
Beer Drinker
I Know Who He Is
Somethin’ To Drink About
Lonesomeville
Missing –
and our song:
I Question You by Lily Messer –
On Itunes : https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-question-you-single/id1018588943