In 2010, Alliance Music Publications published my arrangement (for TTBB choir + piano) of the Irish folk song “Mick McGuire.” It’s a comical number about a hapless bloke who woos a girl but, astonishingly enough, doesn’t get on quite as well with her mother. Since then, it seems to have achieved a wee bit of [...]
One of my many musical pursuits is a band called Thornfield, in which I play with my wife Carrie and our friend Jenna. If you haven’t checked out our website or Facebook yet, now is an excellent time: We just uploaded a bunch of new live recordings from a previous concert or two, and you [...]
Fifth in a series featuring songs from my CD New Creation. For more information, read this link. The Song Behind the Song Carrie Elizabeth Ellis Breck (1855-1934) was a natural poet. Although she claimed she had no sense of pitch, she wrote more than 2,000 devotional lyrics while holding down the full-time job of homemaker and mother to [...]
Here's a little treat for those who enjoy the sillier side of my music. "The Doctor Song" was composed many years ago and has often provoked laughter from unsuspecting audiences, but some have denied its existence since there was no recorded proof of it. Last weekend at a party for artists at a friend's house [...]
If you like my music, Or Carrie's music, Or Jenna's music, Then you'll really like this: www.thornfieldmusic.com It's the brand-new website for Thornfield, which is the brand-new name of our collective band. It fits precisely in the "acoustic singer-songwriter folk jazz classical blues" genre. I play the part of a keyboardist / vocalist / multi-instrumentalist, [...]
The Song Behind the Song Isaac Watts (1647-1748) is known as the “Father of English Hymnody” for very good reason. If he wasn’t the very first to ever write a hymn in English, he was the one who showed the rest of us how it was done. A precocious youngster with an inborn knack for rhyme, [...]
Third in a series featuring songs from my CD New Creation. For more information, read this link. The Song Behind the Song Cornelius Elven (1791–1873) was a Baptist pastor in Suffolk, England, and a close friend of Charles H. Spurgeon. Spurgeon described him as “a faithful servant of the Lord, and an intensely fervent and sincere preacher, filled [...]
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