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Nobody likes you...., *nobody*~! hahahahahaha
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MrNobody wrote:
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On Oct 14, 7:16 pm, Robby Rob <rflo...@mchsi.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On Oct 13, 10:23 pm, "SRobin6...@aol.com" <SRobin6...@aol.com> wrote:
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Here's the article:
A chat with Amy Grant
Written by Russ Jones
Monday, 13 October 2008
Christian Press Exclusive
Wichita is one of Amy Grants stops for the 20th anniversary Lead Me on
Concert Tour. Heralded by CCM Magazine as the #1 Christian Album of
All Time, Lead Me On turns 20 years old this year. Grant will be at
Central Christian Church Sunday, November 16.
After 30 years with Word, the six-time Grammy Award winner signed with
EMI Christian Music Group last year, which recently issued a 20th-
anniversary edition of her landmark Lead Me On album. Her reunion tour
this fall features most of the band that accompanied her on the
original Lead Me On trek. She's also promoting The Christmas
Collection, which hit the streets Sept. 30. She and her husband Vince
Gill will embark on a Christmas tour around the holidays.
Last week Amy took a few minutes to visit with Christian Press
newspaper about life and her upcoming tour.
Tell me about the Lead Me On tour and the 20th-anniversary edition?
We’ve re-packaged some of the recordings we did years ago that have
never been heard. While you can’t turn back the hands of time, many of
those musicians have come back to help me on this project. On the tour
we’ll have some new songs, but will mostly play songs from 1988 and
before. Seven of the original 10 have come back to join us after all
these years.
What was happening in your life twenty years ago that comes through on
Lead Me On?
I was facing some pretty tough issues in my marriage [with ex-husband
Gary Chapman]. I was pregnant with Matt [my first child]. Many of the
lyrics deal with the messy things in life.
What’s it been like for you as a Christian after these years following
your divorce?
Well, there has been a long tunnel of change. Heartache tends to
soften you. Listening now to my music from years ago, I heard a lot of
energy that has got lost somewhere. I am ready to re-engage again.
Many in the Christian community were pretty rough on you following
your divorce. How have you handled the judgment?
I’ve tried to remove myself from the judging voices. I don’t read too
many newspaper or magazine articles. Every once and a while someone
will call and tell me there is a piece I really need to read or need
to watch and I will, but at this point in my life I don’t need to live
by other people’s agendas.
You really see judgment during the political season. Some seem to be
dead-set on undermining everyone. How can a candidate stand under such
malice?
I wrote a song called Find – with Mindy Smith. One of the verses goes
– ‘What would you find if you uncovered my tracks?’ Most likely you
would find many of the same things that are in you. There is the good
and bad in all of us. I’m just not sure how scriptural it is for
people to be so judgmental.
Once you’ve been judged – you learn real fast that you don’t get to
where you are because of you – because of me.
What do you say to those who believe you have gone too “main stream”
in your music?
Well, everyone has an opinion. I am simply trying to be as normal as
possible. To do what is normal. For example – is it really normal to
spend so much time in all these chat rooms and blogs to read all this
material? I am trying to be even… to be steadfast and most of all be
true to God and be true to myself.
Are you working on any new songs for a new album?
Over spring break I worked on about a dozen songs. It’s been a long
time since I’ve done that much at one time. The days are long gone of
the 200 day road tour, but I’m feeling a new enthusiasm and a new
energy. There's a song I wrote about Vince and there's a song that a
friend and I wrote when she found her birth mom. Shovel in Hand I
wrote on the airplane flying out to the [Academy of Country Music
Awards] in Las Vegas. I was meeting Vince, but I had come from the
cemetery watching my son and his friends bury one of their classmates.
It's always songs inspired by people in my life.
For the Christmas album I wrote I Need a Silent Night with Chris
Eaton. It’s been around eight years since he and I had written
together. The verses talk about the commercialization of Christmas –
“It’s so commercialized, but I need a silent night.”
On Baby It's Christmas, Vince was playing with some chords that
sounded rather romantic. We wrote that over a cup of coffee one
morning. I don't think anybody really thinks about Christmas Eve as
being the most romantic time, especially if you have children, because
you are exhausted. But if you could have a very romantic Christmas
Eve, what would it be like?
Amy Grant and Vince Gill will launch a 15-date Christmas tour on Dec.
4 in Manchester, N.H. The tour will conclude with shows at the Ryman
Auditorium in Nashville on Dec. 22 and 23. Gill's daughter, Jenny,
will serve as a harmony vocalist in the 12-piece band, which will
include a horn section. "Some of our earlier Christmas tours were with
a symphony orchestra," said Gill "This time, though, we wanted to
create more of an intimate, living room feel." In addition, Grant will
release a new Christmas album, The Holiday Collection, on Tuesday
(Sept. 30), featuring songs from her previous holiday albums, as well
as four new songs. She and Gill co-wrote one of the new songs, Baby
It's Christmas.
To purchase tickets for the Amy Grant “Lead Me On” concert at Central
Christian Church in Wichita go to praisecalendar.com. |
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On Oct 15, 1:04 am, "SRobin6...@aol.com" <SRobin6...@aol.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On Oct 14, 7:16 pm, Robby Rob <rflo...@mchsi.com> wrote:
On Oct 13, 10:23 pm, "SRobin6...@aol.com" <SRobin6...@aol.com> wrote:
http://www.thechronicleonline.net/content/view/984/12/
I get an Internal Server Error when I go that link :(
Here's the article:
A chat with Amy Grant
Written by Russ Jones
Monday, 13 October 2008
Christian Press Exclusive
Wichita is one of Amy Grants stops for the 20th anniversary Lead Me on
Concert Tour. Heralded by CCM Magazine as the #1 Christian Album of
All Time, Lead Me On turns 20 years old this year. Grant will be at
Central Christian Church Sunday, November 16.
After 30 years with Word, the six-time Grammy Award winner signed with
EMI Christian Music Group last year, which recently issued a 20th-
anniversary edition of her landmark Lead Me On album. Her reunion tour
this fall features most of the band that accompanied her on the
original Lead Me On trek. She's also promoting The Christmas
Collection, which hit the streets Sept. 30. She and her husband Vince
Gill will embark on a Christmas tour around the holidays.
Last week Amy took a few minutes to visit with Christian Press
newspaper about life and her upcoming tour.
Tell me about the Lead Me On tour and the 20th-anniversary edition?
We’ve re-packaged some of the recordings we did years ago that have
never been heard. While you can’t turn back the hands of time, many of
those musicians have come back to help me on this project. On the tour
we’ll have some new songs, but will mostly play songs from 1988 and
before. Seven of the original 10 have come back to join us after all
these years.
What was happening in your life twenty years ago that comes through on
Lead Me On?
I was facing some pretty tough issues in my marriage [with ex-husband
Gary Chapman]. I was pregnant with Matt [my first child]. Many of the
lyrics deal with the messy things in life.
What’s it been like for you as a Christian after these years following
your divorce?
Well, there has been a long tunnel of change. Heartache tends to
soften you. Listening now to my music from years ago, I heard a lot of
energy that has got lost somewhere. I am ready to re-engage again.
Many in the Christian community were pretty rough on you following
your divorce. How have you handled the judgment?
I’ve tried to remove myself from the judging voices. I don’t read too
many newspaper or magazine articles. Every once and a while someone
will call and tell me there is a piece I really need to read or need
to watch and I will, but at this point in my life I don’t need to live
by other people’s agendas.
You really see judgment during the political season. Some seem to be
dead-set on undermining everyone. How can a candidate stand under such
malice?
I wrote a song called Find – with Mindy Smith. One of the verses goes
– ‘What would you find if you uncovered my tracks?’ Most likely you
would find many of the same things that are in you. There is the good
and bad in all of us. I’m just not sure how scriptural it is for
people to be so judgmental.
Once you’ve been judged – you learn real fast that you don’t get to
where you are because of you – because of me.
What do you say to those who believe you have gone too “main stream”
in your music?
Well, everyone has an opinion. I am simply trying to be as normal as
possible. To do what is normal. For example – is it really normal to
spend so much time in all these chat rooms and blogs to read all this
material? I am trying to be even… to be steadfast and most of all be
true to God and be true to myself.
Are you working on any new songs for a new album?
Over spring break I worked on about a dozen songs. It’s been a long
time since I’ve done that much at one time. The days are long gone of
the 200 day road tour, but I’m feeling a new enthusiasm and a new
energy. There's a song I wrote about Vince and there's a song that a
friend and I wrote when she found her birth mom. Shovel in Hand I
wrote on the airplane flying out to the [Academy of Country Music
Awards] in Las Vegas. I was meeting Vince, but I had come from the
cemetery watching my son and his friends bury one of their classmates.
It's always songs inspired by people in my life.
For the Christmas album I wrote I Need a Silent Night with Chris
Eaton. It’s been around eight years since he and I had written
together. The verses talk about the commercialization of Christmas –
“It’s so commercialized, but I need a silent night.”
On Baby It's Christmas, Vince was playing with some chords that
sounded rather romantic. We wrote that over a cup of coffee one
morning. I don't think anybody really thinks about Christmas Eve as
being the most romantic time, especially if you have children, because
you are exhausted. But if you could have a very romantic Christmas
Eve, what would it be like?
Amy Grant and Vince Gill will launch a 15-date Christmas tour on Dec.
4 in Manchester, N.H. The tour will conclude with shows at the Ryman
Auditorium in Nashville on Dec. 22 and 23. Gill's daughter, Jenny,
will serve as a harmony vocalist in the 12-piece band, which will
include a horn section. "Some of our earlier Christmas tours were with
a symphony orchestra," said Gill "This time, though, we wanted to
create more of an intimate, living room feel." In addition, Grant will
release a new Christmas album, The Holiday Collection, on Tuesday
(Sept. 30), featuring songs from her previous holiday albums, as well
as four new songs. She and Gill co-wrote one of the new songs, Baby
It's Christmas.
To purchase tickets for the Amy Grant “Lead Me On” concert at Central
Christian Church in Wichita go to praisecalendar.com.
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