Archive for the ‘Music’ Category

What was the point?

19, May 2010

So why did I spend the time and bandwidth to post all those videos highlighting music I remember from my past? Partly it was an effort to get my foot back in the door of blogging. I'm not sure if that's happened all that well, but I gave it a shot.
More importantly, the whole exercise [...]

Blasts from My Past #15

18, May 2010

Later on, while serving as the music minister at a church in South Carolina, I began to get back into the worship music scene. For whatever reason, I had not really paid attention to worship music for a while, but I was hungry for something new that spoke my language.
No offense intended to all the [...]

Blasts from my Past #14

17, May 2010

After college, my wife and I went to Alaska, where one of my numerous duties was directing the Pep Band. I have to say, by the third year, our pep band rocked every gymnasium we could find. When I was done it wasn't just your typical basketball game band, but a full sonic assault with [...]

Blasts from my Past #13

14, May 2010

I was a vocal major in college, and so I took many an hour of voice lessons. All the way back to high school I learned numerous baritone songs and German lieder, and remember some of them fondly.
This song, Go Lovely Rose by Roger Quilter is still my all-time favorite "art song" to sing. This [...]

Blasts from my Past #12

13, May 2010

While in college, I spent four years traveling around in one of the school's singing groups. We visited churches on the weekends, and traveled eight to ten weeks during the summer singing all across the country in youth camps.
Much, but not all, of what we did was Southern Gospel. Yeah, me singing Southern Gospel. Ironic.
Here's [...]

Blasts from my Past #11

12, May 2010

I graduated in 1990, and during that time partially gotten over my classical only listening. Either way, I was pretty much out of the loop on a lot of music by the time I hit college, and one of the guys on our floor introduced me to this quartet of guys named 4Him. After seeing [...]

Blasts from my Past #10

11, May 2010

I told you I'd get to this one. I grew up in a pretty conservative environment—a Fundamental, Independent Baptist church. (Yeah, those are capitalized.) I heard more sermons during those years about the evils of "secular" music than I ever wanted—enough to last a lifetime.
One year our youth group all got caught up in the [...]

Blasts from my Past #8

10, May 2010

Back in 1981, this little experimental channel appeared with the idea of playing music videos round the clock. They called themselves MTV, and little did we understand at the time just how much they would shape the future of media. Pastors preached against it, and kids like me watched hours and hours of it in [...]

Blasts from my Past #7

9, May 2010

A second special Sunday post in my musical retrospective.
I remember going to Six Flags one year with the youth group in my high school years. It was a Christian music day of some sort, and attending that days concert was mandatory. I was in a bad mood and didn't want to go. When we got [...]

Blasts from My Past #6

9, May 2010

Happy Mother's Day everybody, and happy baptism day to my little girl.
How about some early Christian music video for Sunday. I remember when I was in middle school that a Christian music radio started up within listening distance. One of the first things I remember thinking was, "They make church music like this? I didn't [...]


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