Worship Confessional: 4/13/2008
I wasn’t scheduled to play this week, but a last minute change to the worship schedule had me playing this morning. I had only played with one other band member who played today, so it was good to be able to sit in with some other musicians. Totally different feel for a lot of reasons. Our set:
- With All of my Heart (Dave Fife)
- Let My Words Be Few (Matt Redman)
- More Than Ever (Robbie Reider & Allan Fuller)
- Invitation Fountain (If You Lead Me, Lord, I Will Follow)
- Holy God (Brian Doerksen)
The only tune I hadn’t played before was the Invitation Fountain tune, and I think that’s because it was written by our leader today, Dave Florea. He’s known for not crediting himself when we do a tune that he wrote. And that’s too bad, too, because he writes some really good stuff. This particular song only had two chords through the whole thing, so you had to get creative when going back and forth. Even so, it had a great melody and fit in nicely with the set.
Dave led, with Jeff on Bass, his wife Eilene on djembe/backup vocals, Brad on drums, and me on keys. If you ever have to sit in on a worship time, cold turkey, with no rehearsal time, this is the group to do it with. Musically, this is about as solid of a group as I’ve played with in quite a while.
April 15th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Rick - I’ve been thinking about that old Redman tune “Let My Words Be Few”, I think we may pull that one out soon. Love that song.
Invitation Fountain had been on my list to do since 2002. I think it was on the Vineyard album “If You Say Go”. Is your worship leader on that CD? If so…COOL! If not…STILL COOL!
Later!
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April 16th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
@Ben: I figured one of you worship leader-types might be able to set me straight. No, he wasn’t on that album, but he’s a pretty darn good guitar player and song writer. Thanks for the comment!