Category Archives: Work

The Midtown Project

Back in January, I wrote a couple string arrangements for an album my church, Midtown Fellowship, was recording featuring songs written by members of our music team. Besides arranging strings for two of the songs, I wrote three instrumental interludes, … Continue reading

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“Makes people out of strangers.”

You may have noticed that most of my posts from the Festival of Faith and Writing consist of quotes that I scribbled down during the talks that caught my ear. Today, I was reading a friend, Eric Peter’s, latest post … Continue reading

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Music video for Will Hedgecock’s “I Don’t Know”

Back in August, I wrote a couple string arrangements for the debut project from Will Hedgecock, Reflections. One of the songs I wrote strings for, I Don’t Know, is the first radio single from the project (I posted the press … Continue reading

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What did you do last night?

Here’s what I did:

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This made my week better…

After a friend told me the news yesterday, I hunted around and found this press release: Will Hedgecock Releases Debut Adult Contemporary Single ‘I Don’t Know’ BEAUTIFUL BALLAD FEATURES STUNNING VOCALS, STELLAR MUSIC FROM NEW ARTIST IN COLLABORATION WITH GRAMMY–WINNING … Continue reading

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Nothing like it…

When I listen to music, more often than not I am thinking of how I would orchestrate the song, if given the chance. But since most of the work I’m doing now is in music preparation, that usually stays in … Continue reading

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Music I’ve worked on – Casting Crowns

The new CD from Casting Crowns, The Alter and the Door, releases on August 28th and is produced by Mark Miller (Sayer Brown). The strings for this project were arranged by Bernie Herms. He sent me the MIDI files and … Continue reading

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Work and writing

Sorry for the dearth of new posts here recently. I’ve been working 16-20 hour days more often than not for the last couple weeks, and it’s been hard trying to find time in there to sleep, much less blog. Just … Continue reading

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John Michael Talbot

Although most of my interactions with 21st century American Christianity leave me skeptical and wanting to listen to Sara Groves’ song Maybe There’s a Loving God again, every once in a while I come across someone who reminds me of … Continue reading

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6 Months

Today marks 6 months since I moved to Nashville. Since I’ve been here, I’ve been involved in some way (mostly music prep.) working on projects for artists as diverse as Nanci Griffith, Bob Seger, Ronan Tynan, the Nashville Symphony, Vince … Continue reading

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