some songs I’ve written

@Audie

That is amazing!  Well done !

The lyrics remind me of this song by “The Pretty Wreckless”. Although I like your lyrics better.

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Anyone who keeps the faith in these times is an amazing person. Same with anyone who grows in faith despite all the adversity. Gospel musicians are the best ones. I miss that Hammond organ sound. Music is an odd thing in that it’s the simple and basic that reaches the masses. I’ve always tried to be respectful of religious people and their roots. I admire the missionaries. I still listen to them often because they’ve tried to replace it with bread and circuses and it just is not a very good experience whereas the people that go to those religious camps seem to have something that endures. One thing that always struck me about the gospel musician is how much rock and other music ripped from gospel and the religious people never got upset and never cried about cultural appropriation. They just wished the artists are better life.

Not my type, but she is good. I will post a Hammond organ. I also like the red-haired lady on youtube who plays old gospel. I did not grow up with gospel music, that came later. Grew up with normal singing. That lady you posted reminded me of an old revival I saw, but can’t find it. The pastor brought up this black lady and said she was a mute. He performed his healing miracle and she started singing. It was quite funny. Pure showmanship, but I loved it. Real good quality gospel music is something I missed out on. That’s why I like to explore roots in gospel music from the country. It’s so positive.

I vaguely pay attention, but I heard that Ray Charles, Little Richard and others ripped a lot of their songs directly from gospel. Same with Elvis, which comes as no real surprise, as he had Graceland.

Sean Feucht was smart. During the lockdown, he jumped and started a tour called Let Us Worship. I had never heard of him before. Normally, I will sometimes listen to Air1 or KSOS. Hillsong, Tomlin, Brewster and some others I know, but never this guy. Shows you that timing matters and what stance you take.

The only reason I’m really posting this is because there is a lesson in the timing of action. They showed up without masks. This amused me greatly that a Jesus bible-thumper would have a spirit of freedom and liberty when all the “hardcore” artists were sheep and lemmings and doing whatever the state and corporate told them to like little sissy submissives.

During the later half of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic was ongoing, Feucht arranged worship concerts across the United States that drew crowds of thousands to protest government restrictions on people gathering during COVID-19 lockdowns. His posts were shared by senator Josh Hawley who stated “Cancel culture meets #BigTech. Now @instagram is censoring a Christian worship leader who wants to post videos of praise and worship from places where there has recently been unrest.”

Thanks for posting. Sounds wonderful and I like the picture, too. Wish I would’ve been part of something like that in life. Massive worship. Good choir fellowship.

Here’s the lady I was talking about. She plays hymns on piano. I guess she’s doing a live now, but here’s a past video.

Natalie Raynes Music

Rap is the number one musical category now. Glad to see and hear that rappers are doing gospel content. There is infinite content for rappers and song writers in the sermons of the past. I like listening to ministers and preachers but if songwriters can take the message and the points and put them in song form, that is genius art communication. I used to be a huge music junkie. I was way into it. “Hiphop and R&B” was what everyone used to say. It was the standard when I was growing up. Metal, rock and all that. Listened to it all. At my age, I went back to classical and jazz. Only reason was because I found that too much TV in my youth lead me to be too easily persuaded and influenced by messages and I find lyrics very distracting, so I went back to my roots of instrumental music. Musicians that can actually play.

Hiphop is the number one consumed music now. I learned that the other day as people were talking about the Travis Scott stampede, where fans lost their lives to needles, heart attacks and being trampled. This is something you won’t see happen at a gospel concert. It won’t happen with preacher rappers either. I left thug life rap behind a long time ago. Any music that leads to violence and chaos is something I want nothing to do with. The youth are strong, so they thing they can take it, but clearly, no anymore. For example, I felt the same way about Guns and Roses. Anything that leads to riots is not for me. There may be times when strength in numbers and the power of the mob is necessary, but not for entertainment purposes or music.

Thanks for posting gospel music and preaching. I do not go to church anymore. I wish I would have been more religious and done it regularly throughout the course of life.