Charlie Peacock wrote a piece for the final print issue of CCM Magazine, on the future of Christian Music. Well worth a read:
In the future, young musicians will think that all Christian music is dated and boring, and they will create something they think is current, relative and exciting. They will say things like: “We just wanna show people that you can be a Christian and have fun, too.” Or, “We’re not gonna hit people over the head with the Bible. We’re not Christian musicians; we’re musicians who are Christians.” Or, “We are totally sold out to Jesus. We don’t write vague, sugar-coated lyrics.”
It will be nothing but retread hubris though. I will roll my eyes and grumble that history is hell-bent on repeating itself.
Well, if we had any hopes of keeping in the good graces of the CCM crowd, I think we can kiss them goodbye. Anytime you use poker as a metaphor, I think you can forget your chances of a lot of airplay on Christian Hit Radio.
Please excuse me while I go on with my life.
Erica came to me a week ago and said: ”We need a mindless fist-pumper. There are a lot of great songs, but as usual, they trend towards the thinky side of things.” We sat down and started kicking ideas around, and within about, oh, I dunno, 45 seconds, we’d landed on this tune.
I think it has the biggest hook of the whole record. Stick nominated this tune as The Dailies song most likely to get licensed by a casino. I will say, truly, it’s not really about poker. Erica and I are basically laying our lives on the line. This season of our lives has been the biggest risk we’ve ever taken. We’re going all in, and hoping that someone will call.
Stay tuned next week, as we’ll post blogs all through the week from Eldorado, both here and at the official Dailies site.
Well. I wish to assure Mike and Corey that I have not slunk off anywhere. All of the bittersweet couplets are already written.
This past week has been very, very busy. Anyways… here is something new for you all to hear. I will again send you to The Dailies website to hear it. This one’s got a little fundie-bait in it, not to mention a pretty sweet bass part. :)
Sorry for the downtime - I upgraded the PHP5 software language that the site runs on, and it ended up breaking everything all to hells. Welcome back, my blogging friends.
For 120 minutes tonight, the public face of the church was Gerald Martinez and his family. Rough hands and tender heart, reminded me of a certain carpenter.
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