Now Tracking : Gone
Posted: November 29, 2013 Filed under: Christian, Client News, Now Tracking | Tags: Gone, Jamie Grace, Michael Jackson, now tracking song Leave a commentA second song in queue at Play It Again Demos is by Michael Jackson, titled “Gone.” It’s a wonderful song with some interesting chord and lyric twists.
This would be a song I could hear Jamie Grace doing. I’m excited and looking forward to experiencing what I hear in my head coming to life.
The charts are finished and we’re tracking tomorrow, it should be mixed the first week of December!- b.e.
Update 12-1-13: The rhythm and overdub tracks are cut for Gone, the singer delivered some truly exceptional vocal tracks, now it’s on to mixing which is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon/Thursday!
Update 12-5-13: You can listen to the finished mix version here!
Rockin’ Contemporary Christian Sample Demo
Posted: November 15, 2013 Filed under: Christian, Samples of Our Work | Tags: Bill Watson, Christian Demo Sample, David Northrup, Jessica Brooks, Nashville singer Taryn Murphy, We Pray Leave a commentLooking to have a Christian song produced that needs to rock? Please give a listen to We Pray.
Jessica Brooks delivers a heartfelt, emotional lead track as Nashville session singer Taryn, lays down those awesome gospel influenced bgvs… eight tracks of stacked bgv tracks, no less!
We Pray:
Lead Vocal: Jessica Brooks
BGVs: Taryn
Piano: Ron Fairchild (The Oaks)
Drums: David Northrup (Travis Tritt, Boz Scaggs, Rick Derringer)
All Acoustic, Electric Rhythm & Lead Guitars and Bass Guitar: Bill Watson
Produced and Arranged by Bill Watson for Nashville Trax for songwriter Dan Mathews.
Pro demos make everyone- friends, family, artists, record company A & R and music publishers- take notice.
If you would like a quote on making a professional version of your song simply drop an e-mail with your MP3 rough version attached to: nashtrax@bellsouth.net with the details of what you want. Your project can be completed over the Internet or you can be present. We do bluegrass, rock, country, pop, rap, hip-hop, blues you name it!
Writing Christian Worship Music
Posted: November 13, 2013 Filed under: Christian, Songwriting | Tags: christian songwriting, Writing worship music Leave a commentTwo very good books that will help anyone interested in writing Christian songs.
The Craft of Christian Songwriting:
How To Write And Select Songs For Worship:
When I finally got serious about my Christian walk it took a while to figure out that there was a difference between the songs chosen for church service and most of the songs you’d hear on the way to church on Christian radio. Contemporary worship songs are subset of Contemporary Christian music. I think the second book really makes that distinction clear.
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The Freemans : Voice In The Desert CD
Posted: October 31, 2013 Filed under: Christian, Music Industry News, Song Pitch Opportunity | Tags: Hendersonville, The Freemans, The Isaacs, The Oak Ridge Boys, TN, Voice In The Desert CD Leave a commentThe Freemans are just one of the big name Southern Gospel groups that call Hendersonville, TN home base, H-ville is about a 15 minute drive north of Nashville. The Oak Ridge Boys, The Isaacs and others do the same, as well as several top nationally known bluegrass groups. I’m not sure why there’s such a concentration in such a small area, obviously the proximity to Nashville plays a part but there are probably historical and family connections as well.
I met Darryl Freeman and his son, Caylon, the drummer in the band, for the first time about 8 weeks ago. They gave me a free copy of their newly released Voice In The Desert CD which I’ve since listened to several times and found to be super.
Reading the liner notes I noticed they didn’t write their own music on the CD so that might be a pitch opportunity for you if you have something that’s dead on target for their next project. I highly recommend you purchase their VITD album and listen thoroughly beforehand, just because you wrote a song that mentions Jesus it doesn’t mean it will fit their style- b.e.
Now Tracking: Oh Lord I Sing To Thee
Posted: September 5, 2013 Filed under: Christian, Client News, Now Tracking | Tags: Paul Stookey, Play It Again Demos Song Recording Service, The Wedding Song Lyric Leave a comment
This is a Play It Again Demos client project: gospel piano and vocal demo with female lead and harmony vocal ($250 for a piano/vocal plus $65.00 for harmony/bgvs = $315 total).
I feel blessed to have the opportunity to produce this beautiful, heartfelt worship song for a lady named Heather who is wheelchair bound and convinced God is going to let her walk again.
Do you believe in miracles? Please pray for Heather.
Don’t dismiss it. We had a mini-miracle occur at one of the churches I attend a couple weeks ago. A member lady’s father was rushed into surgery at a local hospital, died and the nurse came out to tell her there was nothing they could do. (Later, the surgeon said sewing together what was left of his aorta was literally like sewing two pieces of wet toilet paper together, they couldn’t do it.)
A team was still working on the father but it was a legal formality. The daughter started frantically texting church members asking for prayer, saying her father had died on the op table but the doctors were still working on him. (I was not at the church but did get the texts).
As the pastor told it the following Sunday, the husband, who happened to be at an event at the church, received the text, and asked all present for prayer. The entire church hit their knees. Soon a text came in saying his father in law had revived. Three times he flatlined. Three times his heart started again, each time after a prayer request was texted by his daughter and the church prayed mightily until the next text came in saying he had revived.
He’s alive today. The doctors are dumbfounded, They can’t explain it as medically as it was simply not possible.
Coincidence? IMHO Just Jesus doing His thing.
That’s not to say every prayer evokes a miracle but I do believe Paul Stookey had it about right when he paraphrased Matthew 18:20 in The Wedding Song: “Whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name, there is love.”
That’s one of the most beautiful lyrics ever written I think: The Wedding Song Lyric Thought provoking intelligence and simplistic innocence working in parallel. I’m not positive the human mind can create that alone.
He is love. Gather, pray and He will be there. The serendipity for we mortals is how that love plays out-b.e.
P.S. Update: The song is now tracked. You can listen to the before and after versions here!
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Evolution vs. God : What a Hoot!
Posted: September 4, 2013 Filed under: Christian | Tags: atheist, college, converts to Christianity, Damascus, Darwinist, Evolution, Evolution vs. God, finch, Francis Collins, Genesis, global cooling, global warming, God, Human Genome Project, Isaiah 17, Israel, macroevolution, PhD, Piltdown Man, professors, proof, Psalm 111:10, Richard Lundtrom, world has been cooling the last 15 years Leave a commentI saw this on TBN last night and just have to share it, it’s a hoot! Watch as college students majoring in various sciences are tripped up by simple questions about God, evolution and creation.
Here you can see their pied pipers (college science professors) stammer and draw blanks when asked to name one example of true Darwinist Type-To-Type Evolution.
I suppose that’s because there are none. It’s not that there’s scant evidence for anything beyond adaptation confined within a species, there’s zero evidence:
It’s a little scary this is an example of the “best and brightest” our colleges are producing. No surprise though, how can wisdom be injected into the equation when the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and atheists are doing the teaching?
I don’t agree with the tactics employed, I’d prefer to see the love of Christ on display rather than intellectual combat but the video is still educational and a blast to watch because it’s a microcosm of the decades-old situation of scientists and creationists talking past each other. Creationists can’t understand how the “proven fact” of macro-evolution can have no observable evidence and scientists don’t understand what God has to do with science or why creationists use phrases like “it’s adaptation, not evolution” that have no meaning in scientific circles. “Evolution is evolution, period,” they say. If adaptation occurred, it’s also evolution, therefore evolution is a fact beyond debate.
The battle is over Genesis. Christian children are taught in their homes and in Sunday School that God created everything, including creating man in His image. Then in public school (why are they there to begin with, public school attendance being the very definition of child abuse?) they’re taught something that contradicts their parents and their Sunday school teacher. Often, the conclusion resolving that dichotomy is that the Bible is not truthful; that evolution is a fact; that man was not created by God in His image. They’re taught man evolved from a fish that became a small furry mammal, that became an ape that turned into man, deal with it. “Look,” they say, “Here are some illustrations to make this progression easy to see.”
It’s easy to pull the wool over the eyes of children. It’s easy to plant the seeds that will help shake their faith someday.
Like everyone else I was taught Darwinist evolution in elementary school and accepted it until 2002 when I met someone who didn’t believe in it. I was incensed! How can you not believe in evolution when it’s proven fact, I argued? I initially thought their position was at once ridiculous, unintelligent and untenable. Three days of intense debate and research later I began to realize The Theory of Evolution had gaping holes in it and was, in fact, obviously false. I published and sold a paper on that research for a few years and made a lot of money, but unfortunately, it didn’t drive me closer to embracing Christianity at that time.
Besides the flaw in the way The Theory of Evolution is being taught, I discovered dozens of discrepancies in the Theory itself, two of the more glaring flaws being:
1) Adaptation within species occurs often, but Darwinist species-evolves into-new-species evolution? There’s not a shred of evidence for it. Yet macro-evolution is taught as if it’s a proven fact, using adaptation, a.k.a. micro-evolution, as the evidential basis. Of course the scientist says, “micro-evolution IS evolution, therefore The Theory of Evolution is scientifically sound and valid as stated.”
Basically, scientists demonstrate adaptation within a type then postulate, “It’s never been observed and there’s no evidence but over long periods of time, over millions of years, these micro changes obviously must lead to types becoming other types because nothing else plausibly accounts for the variety of types.”
Try God? I choose to put my faith in Him. Scientists, however, don’t have that choice, they must invest their hope, belief and faith in time passing; science does not allow supernatural explanations. Scientists may believe otherwise privately, but in a scientific capacity they must “believe in evolution.” God isn’t allowed into the equation so evolution is the best remaining explanation.
2) Present day observable data demonstrates the exact opposite of the basic tenets of evolutionary theory. Radical anomalies that appear in a population, no matter how useful, disappear over time, they do not assimilate. In other words, babies born with two heads don’t turn into a branch line of two headed humans, the progeny of two headed parents typically have one head. (In spite of the fact we all know two heads are better than one, (LOL!).
There are no isolated branches of humans that have some radical difference from other humans such as a third eye in the back of the head; a third arm; a prehensile tail growing from their abdomen; fins, wings, or anything similar and useful that would show they’re evolving into something other than humans.
Do some mathematical calculations on the prevalence of mutation, the prevalence of adaptation and a world population of over 7 billion people, then please explain why there aren’t dozens, if not hundreds of branches of the human species evolving into something non-human.
False circular reasoning is common to all atheists. They reach incorrect conclusions because they’re unable to think outside the box of misleading information they’ve been fed by their pied pipers. They are allowing themselves to be led off the cliff of sound thinking because “wisdom begins with a fear of God.” (Psalm 111:10).
They don’t believe in God, therefore their logic skills and ability to reason erodes. It dwindles to the point long pauses, blank stares and stammering is displayed when requested to dive into the ocean of deeper logic instead of wading in the shallows they’ve confined themselves to.
More falsified missing links and data altered to fit agendas are coming. Technology is at a point where a scientist willing to be deceptive in pursuit of fame or in pursuit of an agenda can manufacture a convincing fake. It took scientists over 40 years to conclude Piltdown Man was a hoax. Just two years ago we found out the top two scientists studying Global Warming data didn’t like the fact field data wasn’t supporting their conclusion that the world was warming, falsified it, and were caught only because their hacked e-mails were made public.
The recently released correct original data reveals the world has been cooling for the last 15 years yet the atheist/leftist faction of the scientific community spouts nonsense as they attempt to save face. “Global Warming is still occurring, it’s just in a cooling phase, the heat is possibly being stored in the deepest part of the oceans.”
Hmmm. So it’s still warming, it’s just that it’s cooling?
How do you spell “convoluted logic?”
Par for the course. Remember, this brilliance originates from atheist and agnostic minds turned to mush who believe in Darwin while rejecting The Holy Bible, even when Bible prophecy about Israel comes true before their eyes. Even when this morning’s news headlines regarding Damascus sound like prophecy straight out of Isaiah 17.
How did someone who had little education, was Facebook deprived, and likely never ventured more than 50 miles from their place of birth write prophecy 2,500 years ago knowing that Israel, Damascus, etc. would even exist in the future let alone figure prominently in the daily news? How could they possibly know and correctly predict Israel would cease to exist, come back into existence, then become the absolute center of world events?
It couldn’t possibly be because the biblical prophets were dialed into a God called Jesus? A God who walked the earth in the flesh. A poor man and a handful of nearly destitute followers who created a tiny ripple in the fabric of history that became a mighty wave and only grows in intensity as time passes?
A man who was born to nearly penniless parents and never achieved much material wealth or official title, yet has influenced this world like no man born before or since? The man who forever turned logic upside down with the most profound statements ever spoken? The God-man Jesus, who the majority of past world history has revolved around and nearly all of it to come will? Could it be the biblical prophets were dialed into that dude?
Nah, that’s just too stupid to believe, huh? I bet you’d need some proof of that. “Exactly what sign would you believe?” He asked 2,000 years ago.
Jesus walked the earth, we know that. It’s independently confirmed even by secular writings of the day. It’s even confirmed he was crucified. Was he a lunatic, a liar or exactly what he claimed he was? Was He God in the flesh, who came to save us and demonstrate His love for us by satisfying the demands of ultimate justice with His mercy?
Here’s a clip of former evolutionist and biology professor at Tulane University, Dr. Richard Lundstrom, describing his remarkable conversion from atheism to Christianity as he realized that evolution is not supported by the latest discoveries in the various fields of science and it wasn’t supported mathematically. He no longer felt okay about duping his naive students with the half truths and lies necessary to teach The Theory of Evolution in total, as proven fact:
Even the head of the Human Genome Project, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, converted from atheism to evangelical Christianity! He says that DNA strands mapped for the project have a pattern that could never have occurred by chance, a creator had to be involved! As he studied them and realized exactly what he was seeing, the former atheist spontaneously began to worship.
Want wisdom? Open your Bible to Genesis 1:1 and read daily until you reach the last verse of Revelations- b.e.
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Get On Track With The God Of Wonders
Posted: July 31, 2013 Filed under: Christian | Tags: Beyond our galaxy, Chris Tomlin God of Wonders, focus energy Leave a commentThe radio alarm sounded this morning with this song and it was such a perfect wake up call I thought I’d share. A GREAT way to start the day or anytime really.
Focus and energy just pour on in!- b.e.
Phillip’s Song : The Healing That You Have is Finished, Charity Benefits!
Posted: July 24, 2013 Filed under: Christian, Client News | Tags: Hope Strength, Love, Philip's song: The Healing That You Have, Reverb Nation, Winston Harold Leave a commentHere’s the second song we’ve finished for the songwriting trio, Winston Harold:
It benefits a charity for the family of Philip, a boy who unfortunately died of cancer before the song was finished and recorded.
Why not download the song? 50% of sales at Winston Harold’s Reverb Nation page go to the Love, Hope Strength charity.
“Love the fat bridge and how the arrangement progresses! All of us thank you from the bottom of our hearts. It is excellent, We are very pleased!” Rob C., Winston Harold.
The Healing That You Have Copyright 2014 Winston Harold.
What’s A Good Studio for Recording Christian Music?
Posted: July 9, 2013 Filed under: Christian | Tags: Christian singers, Christian songwriters, free recording studio time, nashville trax, recording Christian material, What's A Good Studio for Recording Christian Music Leave a commentJust because a studio claims to be “Christian” doesn’t mean its the best choice to record your Christian material. It also needs to be a studio with the right commercial gear and reputation.
Consider Nashville Trax At Nashville Trax the owner/producer, singers and musicians who will work on your songs are Christians who understand the process of recording Christian material. Its what we listen to. In fact, most of us, when not touring, play in the worship bands at local churches on Sundays, constantly learning the best of the latest Christian music.
One major benefit here is we have at Nashville Trax combination of session quality Christian musicians you can get nowhere else on the planet.
Most Christian singers or Christian songwriters will benefit from working in a studio where their efforts are respected so they can focus completely on their project.
Nashville Trax does record secular material but Christian and country are the studio favorites. You can’t beat the equipment at Nashville Trax or being surrounded by believers as you record your single, your demo or your full blown CD.
And if you’re doing at least three Christian songs on your project, Nashville Trax automatically gives you up to 8 hours of free recording studio time to help defray or eliminate your travel expenses!
Why not forward your rough MP3 files now to nashtrax@bellsouth.net for a price quote?
Christian Songs About Faith
Posted: July 1, 2013 Filed under: Christian | Tags: Building 429, Chris Tomlin, Christian Songs About Faith, Faith vs. logic, Jesus, John 20:29, kutless Leave a commentHere is an inspiring collection of faith building contemporary Christian song videos:
There are songs by Kutless, Building 429, Chris Tomlin and more. Listen long enough and you’ll hear the same songs on Christian radio but here they’re back-to-back in a powerful, faith building array!
Faith vs. logic? Faith is everything.
Jesus is like a fantastic pair of shoes that don’t look all that comfortable to walk in and aren’t as fancy as some options but try them on in faith. Experience how much lighter your step is, how much farther you can go with them than without, and how much better you feel with them on; you’ll wear them every chance you get. Get Him living inside you and you’ll never want to be without Him.
Logic tells us to strike back at our enemies. Jesus says love them.
Logic says crush your competition. Jesus says to be counter-intuitive, help them out instead. Have faith that your work won’t decrease. Know that all your work comes from Him and He will bless you with even more.
Logic says if there’s a God he’d surely respect the highly intelligent, the rich, the powerful. But Jesus, God in the flesh, walked the earth hanging out with the weak, the despised, the blind, the poor.
Your logic skills won’t impress Him. Your IQ won’t save you. Your love will.
Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” – John 20:29
Christian Song Demo Service and Christian Recording Studio
Posted: June 10, 2013 Filed under: Christian, Studio Services | Tags: Christian radio stations, Christian Recording Studio, Christian Song Demo Service, Christian songwriter tipsheets, K-Love, King of Kings, songwriting, The Fish, The Way Leave a commentNeed a Christian Song Demo Service? A Christian Recording Studio?
Try:
Play It Again Demos’ Christian Demo Service
If you believe in God, make the Lord Jesus Christ the center of your life and write music that would best fit on Christian Radio Stations like:
K-Love
King of Kings
The Fish
The Way
…then Play It Again Demos is the Christian Demo Service for you!
The producer, Bill Watson who produces for both Play It Again Demos and Nashville Trax Recording Studio is a Christian and listens to Christian music of all types. The musicians and sraff who work for both the demo service and the recording studio are Christians.
Most, like Bill (who plays bass guitar) serve on worship teams at local churches on Sundays. Most of those teams play contemporary Christian music so the musicians keep up with the latest trends in the genre.
Having quality demos made of your best songs is an important step that will position you as a serious Christian songwriter whether you are writing sinply to glorify The Lord or you’re pitching them directly to a popular Christian artist in the hope they’ll record them.
If you already have a solo act or a band a Christian Recording Studio like Nashville Trax will be needed to start recording songs professionally and offer them for sale on CD, download or at live performances.
Christian Singer Seeking Songs For Project
Posted: June 9, 2013 Filed under: Christian, Song Pitch Opportunity | Tags: christian singer seeks songs, Hannah Belle Leave a commentHannah Belle, of Lorman, MS will be recording here in Nashville this summer and she’s seeking uptempo hit single country material. She’s a Christian and wants clean lyrics but the song submissions need to be country, not pop country, not Christian. If you have something you’d like to have cut specifically for this pitch send in your rough for evaluation.




