Can I come to Your House and Play?

It’s a killer idea and I love the sound of it. House concerts. Why try and pack people into a coffehouse or church sanctuary and rock star it up when you could get 30 friends together in your living room and celebrate the songs and the God who inspires them.

Here’ s the set up: you host a house concert in your living room and invite your friends. Do it as a party, serve hors d’oeuvres and coffee…or don’t…and with no sound system in a corner of your living room I’ll play and sing and tell the stories of the songs. It’s intimate and authentic. No special effects, just songs.

Here’s the catch, after doing a month of these, how do I pay the bills and feed my family. Not sure yet. Maybe I can sell enough CD’s along the way to make it worth while (doubt it) or maybe hosts would pay to cover travel expenses and CD sales would help with income. As an equation, the sum is not very satisfying yet. But as an idea, it’s really rich!

Tell me how to make it work and I’ll come to your house and play!

October Update

I’m staring out a window at a yard. Our yard, freshly mowed (by my wife) and littered with Fall leaves. The temperatures dropped into the 30’s last night and it’s only October! Nashville is still foreign to me. After six weeks of cancelled events, it felt wonderful to get back on the road last week. Made some new friends in Petal, MS and saw some old friends in Hattiesburg. A new song showed up in the chapel at FBC Hattiesburg as I waited for a collgiate event to start there last Friday. I’ve posted it at the myspace site and it’s called “Foreign is Familiar.” I’ve re-written the lyric a bit since I recorded the worktape but I love the thoughts. It’s not a song about telling the world about Jesus. It’s a song about WANTING to tell the world. It’s about the place my desire meets the real difficulty of translating this hope I’ve found in Jesus Christ into different cultures and languages and the hurdle of our impurities and imperfections as the Church. Check it Out!

I will be traveling for most of the next six weeks and then have a break over the Christmas holiday. If you’ve stopped in to check out what’s going on in my world, take another second to say “hello” by leaving me a comment here.

Peace,
James