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Stranger on Music Row

9/18/2010

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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.
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