Thanx to everybody who brought coats to the OldCoatNew show last Sunday night. It was a blast and great to catch up with some folks I haven’t seen in a while. I heard from a couple of you who couldn’t find the place. Sorry for the address confusion. Turns out in downtown Nashville South is North and 8th is Rosa Parks. Who Knew? Big love to Chase and JP for staying around an extra day for the show and to Scott and Greer for helping with Merch. Thomas gave up his whole Sunday to make us sound good. Gary worked up a good sweat moving chairs all over the place and the room looked great.
REDEEMING THE DAYS (EP) has finally released. Buy a song. Leave a review. Tell a friend. I’m extremely proud of these songs and hope the lyrics challenge you the way they have continued to challenge me.
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Just got back from spending the weekend getting unplugged with the crew from FBC Nashville. The showed up technologically as well. Big love to Doy Cave for making some much needed technical updates on the website this weekend. That meant of course that the site and email were “unplugged” for a while as well. If you tried to say hello and the message bounced back. TRY ME AGAIN. Had a blast hanging with Sammy Ward this weekend. Good to catch up with an old friend.
I’ve found some new friends hanging out in a corner of the web called VIRB. As a motivation for coming over to visit this week I am going to make the song FOURTEEN available for download for FREE until this Friday (September 7). So come over to VIRB and visit and download a free song while you’re there. Have a blast celebrating this obscure holiday that somehow relates to LABOR UNIONS. Do those even still exist?
July 29th, 2007
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Recordings of 3 sermons from Fuge Camp at Ridgecrest, NC have been added to the podcast. You can pull them up in iTunes by CLICKING HERE or by clicking on the iTunes button below. (The songs have been removed for copyright reasons.)
The new EP has finally arrived at the store and is available for purchase. Clicking on the CD cover will take you to the store. As always, you can also buy downloads of the songs from the SnoCap store on the same page. It’s been fun to finally do these new songs on the road this summer. Many of you have heard me sneeking new songs into the set over the last few months. Nice to finally play them and have the CD to back ‘em up. Thanx for your patience!
In response to so many requests for the worship playlists at camp this summer, I have created an iMix for you. For those of you that are iTunes users, just click on the iMix below and iTunes will open automatically to the playlist so you can buy whatever songs you like. See ya on the road!
CLICK HERE TO OPEN THE iMIX IN iTUNES.
June 1st, 2007
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In about an hour I will merge into Nashville’s outbound traffic for 8 weeks of summer craziness. I’ll head east first to make some new friends in Ridgecrest, NC. This will be my fifth summer working with Fuge Camps and I am less prepared than ever! Then I’m with a new camp called ReConstruct for a few weeks, West Jackson Baptist, Impact Camp, and then Back to Ridgecrest for 2 more weeks.
The summer sun always brings with it a swell of new names to learn, faces to remember. I’m usually pretty bad at that part of it all. I’ll say “hey bro,” and “man, I haven’t seen you in a long time.” Hopefully trhe summer will also bring some time to breathe deep, to relax. Maybe I’ll get back out on the water this year and let the breeze take me somewhere.
In honor of summer breezes and all the “someones” I’ll meet this summer, I’ve posted a new Random OTHER Song of the Month on the Myspace Page. “Somone” was recorded in a demo session in the Fall of 2006. Aaron Sands from Jars of Clay is playing bass. Geoff Clapp is playing drums. And I laid down the guitars, wurlitzer, and other keyboard craziness. If you’re a drummer, you’ll really dig this track. Clapp is one of the most talented guys I’ve ever worked with and his Jazz flavor on this folk track was a great marriage.
Pray for me this summer. My RoadMonster will roll over the 200,000 mile mark this summer. Fortunately, amidst the swirl of wind and wave this summer, “I’ve found someone who has been there. Someone who can understand. Someone who can walk on water, and take my hand.”
Peace,
James
There’s a new song up on the Myspace site. This month’s random OTHER song is called “Before This Moment Dies.” Meant to be a romantic and playfull song for us old guys
The longer my hair gets the more OBVIOUSLY grey it is. So I go to war inside - I actually really dig it. I earned every grey hair and the salt and pepper vibe blends nicely with all the black and white I wear. BUT - there is this constant reminder. I live and work in a realy young world. This is a world that calls my Grey Crown a Curse.
So, I am a 36 year old at war within himself. Do I look older than I really am? Do I act younger than I really am? I know this: I’ve still got daring, and I’ve still got dreams. Still got me 2 wishes and 8 lives to redeem. I still got swagger and I still got style. Still got enough leg for another mile. And tonight I’m feeling restless and impulsive and unwise. So baby take my hand before this moment dies.
Grrrr.
The new EP will be back in my hands soon. In the meantime, I have put a BONUS VERSION of the EP up for sale on the Myspace Site. When the EP comes out it will include 6 songs - Dawn, Permanent, Foreign is Familiar, Blue Horizon, Fourteen, and Room to Run. On the myspace site, I’ve included 3 bonus tracks for sale - Just a Question, Can Not Close My Heart, and Someone.
This process of trying to get a CD released has been a tricky one filled with starts and stops over the last three years. Universal put the “Echo” project together and then the distribution deal they were negotiating fell apart. Finally, we started another record with Monroe Jones and Eb+Flo Records. We stopped after a few songs to begin shopping for distribution for we had spent all of the money. No one has ever climbed on board to partner with us so we just decided to put out some of what we’ve done as an indie EP.
I’ll have the CD’s for sale as soon as they’re in my hands. In the meantime, head over to the Myspace store and grab yourself a copy.
Peace,
James
MICHAEL OLSON - WHERE FEAR AND FAITH COLLIDE. I really love this record. Yes, this is a selfish post becuase I co-wrote three songs on the CD but I’m telling you, I REALLY dig it. I can’t always say that about the places my songs end up but this is a record I want to give to all my friends. From powerful worship anthems like “God is With Us” and “On the Third Day” to the genuinely moving “Our First Love” and “Tell Me Again” this record is defnintely worth the $9.90 download from iTunes. (Clicking on the album artwork to the left will open the record in the iTunes store). Check it Out!