This is Levi.. It's been a while since we last connected. I've been doing the school thing this year, learning a tonne about music, but forgetting what it's like to actually play it. I want to play shows, I want to practise with my boys, I wanna tour, I wanna eat ice cream (actually I've been doing quite a bit of that here, to the tune of ten extra pounds..) I just hate sitting in a room and learning about something that I was already happily doing before-hand.
So I was reading about the Christian music industry and, like the rest of the music industry, it's dying. Go down-loaders! Ah, it's the world we live in.. But I stumbled across a quote that I really loved and that shed some light into the whole dreary situation. John J. Thompson in Christianity Today said, "The lack of monetary benefit has filtered out some of the people who should not have been doing this in the first place. If the people who are in it for the money are gone, it leaves more turf for those who had something a little bit loftier in mind."
So there you have it. Us guys who are willing to lose money playing shows are faced with a market that's got a little more room. I'll keep losing money till the day I die. This is what I'm made to do (the music part. Not the losing money part. ... I hope..)
I'm thinking about album two these days, and it's caused me to put album one into perspective. Would You Go is my testimony. It wasn't built for radio hits, rock-ability, background music or any of that stuff. It's my story, written by a beginner guitarist with four chords and the honest truth.
Enter album two. I've got the gents back on board and we even have a new guy potentially joining the gang. This album will be a team project with everyone providing their input. It's not about my story anymore, but the stories of others. We're in a fun situation because we have no label telling us what we can or cannot do. Nobody's worried about how much money this thing makes because I fund it and I don't really give a hoot about money. We want to make good music, we want to please God with what we've been given, we want to be proud of this album and we want ice cream. I'm going to go to my freezer and solve one of those wants right now.
So there you have it. We're back into this, and we're happy you're with us. We have a concert this Saturday night at a little church in Orillia. The info is on our events page. We're bringing in the professional gear and we're going to blow that church away. We really want to see you there if you're in the neighborhood. It's for a really good cause, and I'd love to see their expectations get blown away. I missed you guys :)
-Levi
