So I am sitting here at a coffee shop with my good friend and videographer Drew Raklovits and racking my brain for what our first blog post should be about. All weekend I was looking forward to grabbing my iPad, driving over to Biggby Coffee on West Main, getting a coffee from Maddi and Katie on the morning shift, and just sitting and writing this blog. I had so many ideas this week on what to write about but of course I knew that I would remember them all come Monday (like ya do...)
So since my memory is failing me and my ADD mind keeps jumping from one idea to the next, I thought I would talk about an upcoming recording project I will be recording with my good friend Beth. I met Beth Rowsey as I was finishing up my graduate work at WMU. I had known her sister in the Gold Company program earlier in my college career and really enjoyed making music with her so I knew that I would get along great with Beth. After working with her in Gold Company, and having her as a leader in a campus ministry, I had the pleasure of having Beth as an intern while I was the Worship Leader for a local ministry called The Bridge. For a full summer, I got to work with Beth on a variety of music/ministry related projects. While I would love to geek out on the coolness of projects like effective rotation scheduling and recruiting of volunteer worship teams or which way batteries go into wireless microphones (that's right Beth... I said it... ) the best project of the summer was the songwriting project.
Now, I had heard Beth's original music a few times already and I already knew her vocal performance talent was off the charts, but the song she produced from this project took it all to the next level. Beth used the book of Psalms for her inspiration and wrote a completely personal yet utterly relatable song called "Mightier" reminiscent of Bethany Dillon. The song uses sometimes unexpected harmonic progressions matched with powerful lyrics while still remaining accessible to the listener. The lyrics weave the often cryptic and metaphorical lines of the Psalms into a beautiful and inspiring reminder of the "bigness" of God amidst our seemingly complex lives.
Over the next year, Beth has written and collaborated more and more and now (at the begging of the masses) is finally going to release an album of her music. The album will feature a variety of other collaborative artists in the Kalamazoo area and I am honored and excited to have the privilege of being the recording engineer for what I'm sure will be a masterpeice.
So today I wanted to tell my vast audience of readers (hi mom!) about this great upcoming project. Believe me that I will post when it's ready to be released and demand that each of my readers buys a copy so the album goes platinum.... then I will ask you to ask 1,000,000 more people to read my blog to make good on some claims I may have made...
Happy October!
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