Saturdays with Jamie Grace: Writing songs that mean something (Part 3)
DES MOINES, Iowa (WordNews.org) Jan. 26, 2013 – Christian music artist Jamie Grace conducts an interview with Word News from her parked car. She laughs. “I just need to be out of my room, away from my guitar,” she explains, “because I will end up playing it. I’m kind of sitting really weird. My feet […]
Read More →Saturdays with Jamie Grace: ‘Most of my songs come from crying’ (Part 1)
TAMPA, Fla. (WordNews.org) Jan. 12, 2013 – Jamie Grace, fresh from the “Eye On It” tour with top-selling Christian music artist tobyMac is on yet another tour – the Winter Jam – that will take her to about two dozen states with the likes of Sidewalk Prophets, Royal Tailor, Newsong, and, of court tobyMac. It’s […]
Read More →A conversation with Chris August: Songwriting: Part inspiration, part perspiration (Part 3)
NASHVILLE (WordNews.org) Oct. 11, 2012 – Christian singer/songwriter Chris August said songwriting can be work, requires discipline and needs to be treated like a job. “If a writer just waited for inspiration to kick in, a lot of the greatest work in the history of writing probably wouldn’t be written,” August told WordNews.org. August broke […]
Read More →A conversation with Chris August: Writing songs on the fly (Part 2)
NASHVILLE (WordNews.org) Oct. 10, 2012 – If you’re sitting next to Christian recording artist Chris August, don’t be offended if he doesn’t talk to you. He’s probably writing a song. Unlike some artists who have compiled a number of songs before landing that first record contract, August was writing new songs as he was making […]
Read More →Touring with tobyMac
CYPRESS, Texas (WordNews.org) Oct. 6, 2012 – tobyMac kicked off his latest tour in Arlington, Texas, playing to a sold out crowd in College Park Center. Last night, the Billboard-topping hip hop artist was in Siloam Springs, Arkansas and tonight he’s in Cypress, Texas, where he sold out his VIP package – the best seats […]
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