Love it, usually listen to this on Sunday mornings when I am cooking eggs for breakfast. I have an uplifting playlist for Sunday morning - I need all the help I can get.
Well, maybe that is someone else. I bought it all off Bandcamp, so have it downloaded.
On a related note, many years ago I grew very, very disappointed with Christian music. And I am not even in the industry and never have been. That word - industry - seems out of place when talking about the Hope of the World, but it is indeed an industry. It has been 5 years or more since I have listened to K-LOVE or its equivalents. Many years ago (more than 21 years) one of the stalwarts of CCM was in concert in Pensacola and when I went to see about getting tickets - well, let's just say we wouldn't have been able to afford groceries that week.
I got to the point that I would rather listen to secular music that is clean & thoughtful - at least I knew what I was getting - good quality music with no pretense of Gospel. I would pick some Pink Floyd over the Newsboys. If you haven't ever listened to it, check out "When the Tigers Broke Free", about the death of the singer's father. Soul stirring.
I seek out music that is personal and biblically deep. The shallow "7 words repeated 10 times" approach may be good for whipping folks into a frenzy, but it is not nourishing. Your music is, and I am thankful for that. My "Sunday morning cooking music" includes you, Fernando Ortega, Andrew Peterson, Selah & Keith Green. Great stuff.
At church we are mostly hymns, and I love it. Last Sunday we ended with "Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus." Sink or swim, just dive in!!
Man, I relate to all of that so deeply, Travis. Without casting judgment (as someone who was on the fringes of the mainstream Christian industry for a few years, I saw many things that made me perplexed, which is why I loved playing shows in bars and regular venues more than churches), I haven't listened to KLove hardly ever. Then again, I don't listen to much of anything, and if I do, like you, its old hymns or Bob Dylan or Chopin or Beethoven or Keith Green or some country song that tells a good story.
Grateful for psalmists like Andrew Peterson and Rich Mullins and Fanny Crosby, and humbled to add a few songs to the margins of that great historic hymnal.
This both goes to show how much I need to step up my hymn game, as well as how well written this song is, but I genuinely didn’t know this wasn’t also an older hymn like the bulk of the tracks on gospel hymns vol. 1 until this version was put out.
That’s so funny! You’re the second person to tell me that just this past year haha. But it makes complete sense. Fun fact: I wrote Broken Cisterns, When I’m Standing in Your Presence, and All of Me, right after being asked by our church’s youth pastor to lead music at the upcoming high school camp. I told the Attalus guys we needed some classic pump-up camp style songs, but with a bit more scriptural depth and focus on Christ. Inspiration is such a funny thing. I can literally go years without being able to write a single song. Sometimes I’ll sit down with pen and notepad, straining for ideas, but nothing. Then, some idea pops up at the right time, and suddenly I’m writing four or five songs all at once (Till You’re All I See came in about three weeks tops). A bit like bear hunting I suppose. Some days you get lucky and find a whole family of bears. Most days, you never get anywhere close.
Wow that’s incredible, Seth. Broken Cisterns is one of my favorites for sure. LOVE the use of Psalm 51:10 almost if not just as much as the use of Psalm 23 in Step Out.
Inspiration/creativity is indeed an elusive mistress. I’ve heard numerous stories from artists I appreciate of the writer’s block and feeling of being a tortured poet of sorts. The most creative thing I’ve done was write a novel of sorts that I used to propose to my wife. It’s strange, but it’s like once I had the idea it was as if the words just poured out of me in a way.
Probably not, as I’m not sure it would be appreciated outside of the person it was written for. It was fun to write, however, so I’d love to write something again someday.
Love it, usually listen to this on Sunday mornings when I am cooking eggs for breakfast. I have an uplifting playlist for Sunday morning - I need all the help I can get.
Ah, now I know who that ONE listener is who pops up from time to time haha
Well, maybe that is someone else. I bought it all off Bandcamp, so have it downloaded.
On a related note, many years ago I grew very, very disappointed with Christian music. And I am not even in the industry and never have been. That word - industry - seems out of place when talking about the Hope of the World, but it is indeed an industry. It has been 5 years or more since I have listened to K-LOVE or its equivalents. Many years ago (more than 21 years) one of the stalwarts of CCM was in concert in Pensacola and when I went to see about getting tickets - well, let's just say we wouldn't have been able to afford groceries that week.
I got to the point that I would rather listen to secular music that is clean & thoughtful - at least I knew what I was getting - good quality music with no pretense of Gospel. I would pick some Pink Floyd over the Newsboys. If you haven't ever listened to it, check out "When the Tigers Broke Free", about the death of the singer's father. Soul stirring.
I seek out music that is personal and biblically deep. The shallow "7 words repeated 10 times" approach may be good for whipping folks into a frenzy, but it is not nourishing. Your music is, and I am thankful for that. My "Sunday morning cooking music" includes you, Fernando Ortega, Andrew Peterson, Selah & Keith Green. Great stuff.
At church we are mostly hymns, and I love it. Last Sunday we ended with "Oh the deep, deep love of Jesus." Sink or swim, just dive in!!
Man, I relate to all of that so deeply, Travis. Without casting judgment (as someone who was on the fringes of the mainstream Christian industry for a few years, I saw many things that made me perplexed, which is why I loved playing shows in bars and regular venues more than churches), I haven't listened to KLove hardly ever. Then again, I don't listen to much of anything, and if I do, like you, its old hymns or Bob Dylan or Chopin or Beethoven or Keith Green or some country song that tells a good story.
Grateful for psalmists like Andrew Peterson and Rich Mullins and Fanny Crosby, and humbled to add a few songs to the margins of that great historic hymnal.
This both goes to show how much I need to step up my hymn game, as well as how well written this song is, but I genuinely didn’t know this wasn’t also an older hymn like the bulk of the tracks on gospel hymns vol. 1 until this version was put out.
That’s so funny! You’re the second person to tell me that just this past year haha. But it makes complete sense. Fun fact: I wrote Broken Cisterns, When I’m Standing in Your Presence, and All of Me, right after being asked by our church’s youth pastor to lead music at the upcoming high school camp. I told the Attalus guys we needed some classic pump-up camp style songs, but with a bit more scriptural depth and focus on Christ. Inspiration is such a funny thing. I can literally go years without being able to write a single song. Sometimes I’ll sit down with pen and notepad, straining for ideas, but nothing. Then, some idea pops up at the right time, and suddenly I’m writing four or five songs all at once (Till You’re All I See came in about three weeks tops). A bit like bear hunting I suppose. Some days you get lucky and find a whole family of bears. Most days, you never get anywhere close.
Wow that’s incredible, Seth. Broken Cisterns is one of my favorites for sure. LOVE the use of Psalm 51:10 almost if not just as much as the use of Psalm 23 in Step Out.
Inspiration/creativity is indeed an elusive mistress. I’ve heard numerous stories from artists I appreciate of the writer’s block and feeling of being a tortured poet of sorts. The most creative thing I’ve done was write a novel of sorts that I used to propose to my wife. It’s strange, but it’s like once I had the idea it was as if the words just poured out of me in a way.
Woah, I'd love to read your story as well! Do you think you'll ever publish it or turn it into a longer series?
Probably not, as I’m not sure it would be appreciated outside of the person it was written for. It was fun to write, however, so I’d love to write something again someday.
I’m sure you will, man. Maybe you’re just needing a dip in a North Carolina stream to get the juices flowing!
Sounds like a splendid idea to me. I’ll have to settle on the pacific for the time being…