Two Recordings

April 9th, 2008

Finished these two tracks December 07. I think I’d still like to go in and tweak a few things, and they still need to be mastered to sound really good. Nonetheless, they are the most completely realized recordings I have to date, so hooray for that. Erica on backing vocals, Johnny on piano, Will on violin, me on everything else.

O In The Grace That Calls Me Home
©2006 Rough Harbor Music

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The lyrics are a conglomeration of lines from various hymns written by Isaac Watts, Joseph Swain and Joseph Hart, which I found in the Gadsby Hymnal. The original music has long been lost for these songs, so I figured it was cool to rework their beautiful writing into something new. Red Mountain Church turned me on to William Gadsby’s wonderful collection of hymns and I have been digging through it ever since.

There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood

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Our take on Karl Digerness’ version of William Cowper’s hymn. One of my favs to sing at Harbor. I love Johnny’s hint of blues in the piano. I think William would have approved. He struggled deeply with depression and he wrote this hymn while recovering from a suicide attempt.

Oh yes, and there are instrumental versions of them both

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