I will get to the title of my post in a minute. First...
- Follow-up to my fishing adventure. After the first evening and next morning in Poudre, I didn't have a single bite (!) until the last morning when we fished our way out of the canyon. There was a man fishing at one of our holes along the way who was just leaving and had caught a number of very nice browns. This kind stranger gave Sid and I each a lure that he was having success with and we proceeded to land about a half-dozen each of very, very nice browns. That was a pleasant ending to this year's fishing excursion.
- I have to make another comment about the LefsetzLetter. I have really appreciated his observations about changes in the music industry. If you are interested, Google it and sign up. Very interesting reads.
- I will be working Monday and Tuesday this week then driving to Nashville for the annual Songposium event. I signed up for 5 classes that fall on Thursday and Friday -- three of them with songwriter Pat Pattison from Berklee College of Music. Looking forward to that. I will be staying upstairs from the Commodore, so Wednesday and Thursday evenings I will get to listen in on a number of songwriter performances. I will also get an hour at Brett Manning Studios to get some vocal coaching. An action packed three days.
- On that note, the post title, like I promised. I am standing up a new site called SongsAboutUs (thank you, Trace Adkins) that will deal with how a believer in Jesus can interface with the arts world -- with a specific focus on music. It is barely in its infancy but I hope to be providing some good content and things to think about. Oh, yes, the post title. A few years ago I wrote a ballad called "Stranger on Mars Hill" which was a retelling of the apostle Paul's visit to Athens found in Acts 17. You could say that SongsAboutUs is a re-visit to the same idea. Even though God is a staple in country music, sometimes I wonder if it is not like Athens, where the "Unknown God" is where Paul had to start with telling God's story anew.
- Follow-up to my fishing adventure. After the first evening and next morning in Poudre, I didn't have a single bite (!) until the last morning when we fished our way out of the canyon. There was a man fishing at one of our holes along the way who was just leaving and had caught a number of very nice browns. This kind stranger gave Sid and I each a lure that he was having success with and we proceeded to land about a half-dozen each of very, very nice browns. That was a pleasant ending to this year's fishing excursion.
- I have to make another comment about the LefsetzLetter. I have really appreciated his observations about changes in the music industry. If you are interested, Google it and sign up. Very interesting reads.
- I will be working Monday and Tuesday this week then driving to Nashville for the annual Songposium event. I signed up for 5 classes that fall on Thursday and Friday -- three of them with songwriter Pat Pattison from Berklee College of Music. Looking forward to that. I will be staying upstairs from the Commodore, so Wednesday and Thursday evenings I will get to listen in on a number of songwriter performances. I will also get an hour at Brett Manning Studios to get some vocal coaching. An action packed three days.
- On that note, the post title, like I promised. I am standing up a new site called SongsAboutUs (thank you, Trace Adkins) that will deal with how a believer in Jesus can interface with the arts world -- with a specific focus on music. It is barely in its infancy but I hope to be providing some good content and things to think about. Oh, yes, the post title. A few years ago I wrote a ballad called "Stranger on Mars Hill" which was a retelling of the apostle Paul's visit to Athens found in Acts 17. You could say that SongsAboutUs is a re-visit to the same idea. Even though God is a staple in country music, sometimes I wonder if it is not like Athens, where the "Unknown God" is where Paul had to start with telling God's story anew.
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