Speaking of Natalie Grant (see previous post), she just shot a music video for I Will Not Be Moved, my favorite song from her new CD, Relentless.
One advantage pop singers like Natalie have over the singer/songwriters I usually listen to is they can afford to have the top guys mix their projects and make them sound like a million bucks. That is definitely the case with I Will Not Be Moved. It’s a more aggressive track than you’ll usually find on one of Natalie’s projects, with big fat guitar chords and huge rock drum sounds.
And then, of course, the reason I really love the track – the strings. They were arranged by her husband, Bernie Herms, with music prep by yours truly. We recorded them on December 30th of 2006, if I remember right, with about a 20 piece string section at Paragon Studios, on this song and one other track, Our Hope Endures. If you pay attention to the strings while listening to I Will Not Be Moved, you’ll notice they are only there for eight measures, in the instrumental breakdown before the last chorus (at about 2:42). The track breaks way down, and the strings give you that big lift into the final chorus. It’s the perfect track to listen to in your car, with the volume cranked all the way up. Unfortunately, none of the things I really love about the track come through in the music video, with the compressed audio. But it’s still worth watching. If you like the song, you can buy it on iTunes.
I love this song, it is so encouraging and sometimes that’s all we need to make it through is a bit of encouragement.