Photo by Sandra Huston As 2009 winds down, I am blown away looking back at this year. God is good. While I am a financial nightmare on paper and some may look at some external circumstances I am still dealing with and think things aren't so good, I can say that 2009 has been the best year of my life. Not without deep pain but the growth spiritually and musically has been my greatest blessing. I am deeply thankful.
This last month in itself has been...wow, where do I start...lets just say God is full of surprises.
I'll stick to the music for now.
I have been writing a lot. I have also been working with some new recording equipment and getting the feel for adding tracks and mixing. It's been years since I have done multi-tracking with a cassette 4 track and everything is different now in the digital world.
There is one song that I have mixed and remixed a couple times that I will post here. It's called "Just When I'm Safe". I recorded the main track of my singing and playing together live with the Olympus as I usually do. Then I loaded that track to an SD card and loaded the SD into the VS 100 and added a pseudo-bass track using an acoustic guitar and then tweaking the EQ to make it sound like a bass! That was fun stuff. Then I added a lead/accent track with the same acoustic (Baden, my pal). I used an odd sounding chorus effect from Adobe Audition on that track.
That's the song I have done the most with at this point. So Here it is:
Just When I'm Safe
OK, How about a cover tune? Yes, it happens rarely around here. So I figured I'd do one by someone you all know, Kemper Crabb. WHO?? Look him up. This song is from his underground classic album "The Vigil" released in 1982. The song is called "Doulos" and it is a deeply special song to me. I'll close this post with an explanation from Kemper.
Doulos
Of course I have an instrumental too. It is recorded with the Olympus with my door open so you can enjoy the birds. I added a lead track.
Segue
And last but hopefully not least, I wrote this last night:
Sunset Roses
Oh Yeah, and here is something for Christmas:
Silent Night
So peace to you all. God bless you and Merry Christmas. See you in 2010.
doulos is a Greek word that means bondservant. In the New Testament times, it was not uncommon for a freed slave to voluntarily re-enter servitude to a master whom he loved. This servitude was called bondservice. Only a freed slave could be a bondservant and once he had chosen to become one, he could never be freed again. Neither could he be bought or sold, and he served his chosen master until death. When a man chose bondservice, he was taken to the front entrance of the house, and his right ear was laid against the doorpost. A nail was driven through his ear and a golden earring was placed in it. This golden earring was a symbol to all, of the servants choice and of his immunity to being made merchandise. Paul and Peter spoke of themselves as being bondservants to Christ. There is a service whose true name is freedom. (read I Peter 2:15-17; Luke 12:37). taken from Kemper Crabb's, The Vigil