2003

Jesus said ” the last will be first and the first will be last.”  And, “Whoever wants to become great among you must be you r servant.”  And, ” If you try to save your life you will lose it but if you give it away for me, you will surely find it.”  He said those kinds of things a lot.

There is no victory without surrender to God There is no real living without first dieing.  The calculus of the mysterious reign of God seems strange.  How the the way up be down?  It is so because God, who is pure love, makes it so.

Falling – (in love) is what we are here for.  I am grateful for brothers and sisters who help me learn to fall with some measure of grace.  I am grateful to God for patience with all of us as we come to terms (as we all must) with the fact that we are dust and to dust we will return.  “Ashes, ashes, we all fall down.”

Crisis

White Flag

OUr First Lessons

Flora’s Proclamation

Falling Down

The Love in Your Eyes

Good Life

Down

Emmanuel

Up And Down

Somebody Cares

Missing the Point

Turning and Returning

Five Gifts for the Journey

2004

This CD presents several instrumental arrangements of some of my favorite hymn tunes along with several of my compositions.  The title and the title song were inspired by a family trip to the Atlantic coast in North Carolina.  A couple of years before I had been to the other end of the New River (actually, it’s a very old river) in West Virginia.  Our beach house was at the place where the New River finds its home in the sea.  The prelude to the song Ocean of Love is a musical picture of a growing river.   As you round the last bend there is a breathtaking encounter  with the ocean.

Thanks to God who is the Ocean of Love in whom we live and move and have our being.

Slane

Bright Path

Noel Nouvelet

Ocean of Love

Beech Spring

Foundation

Predictable Diety

Holy, Holy, Holy

To Whom Shall We Go?

Picardy

Holy Time, Holy Space

That’s Good!

My Banjo Hangout page   
http://www.banjohangout.org/my/mandocaster

My Daughter-in-law’s blog where I get updates on my grandchildren http://www.dandeelionsoup.blogspot.com/

My church’s website  http://hope-jordan.org/

Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time Music Association
http://www.minnesotabluegrass.org/

Demo of my favorite pedal  (I’ve got one for sale $300) http://www.gazotube.com/LhNC1AMzH0I.html

Duhks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCqDXocucU

2005

I am ever more astonished at the love that is in, with and under all things.  I am convinced that God’s grace is deeper than any of us could ever imagine.  My awareness of that continues to deepen as I grow older.

I n the songs recorded on this CD you will mostly hear the stammering of a man in love.  In the magnificent embrace of my creator and savior I am smitten.  God is pure deep love.  I can’t get over it!

I hope you experience some of the Wisdom, Word, Wind that has affected me as I created these songs.  I enjoy sharing my reflections.

May the deep peace of God abide in you and may you hear the depth of God’s call in the depth of your being.

More

One True Song

Way of the Wind

We are Waiting

Christmas ‘64

The Light of Love

Already Reconciled

Deep Calls to Deep

We Believe We Trust

Picardy

A Mighty Fortress

You Call me By My Name

2007

These are songs about the wonder of life and the generative power of God in creation.  God has made a universe that makes itself new again and again.  Life – death – life… It’s a joy to watch a little bit of it unfold and to reflect on it.  The creator is also the redeemer who romances it all out of nothing — always has, always will!

Down in the Seeded Ground

Love Sings Her Song

Vernal Reboot

My Astonished Heart

Mountain Top Feast

A Future Imagined

Till Earth Mirrors Heaven

Creation Alleluia

Good Enough

Between Exile and Home

It All Comes Home

Computers

multiac and GR-33

2 Home made Athlon 64 tweeked for audio

Software * Sonar 7 Producer * Sony Sound Forge 7 * Sony CD Architect 5 * Antares Auto Tune * BBE Sonic Maximizer

Monitors * KRK k-Rok

* Optimus 7 * Sony MDR 7506s

Mics * AKG C3000 B * Neumann KM 185 * 2 Octava MK-012 * 2 AKG c1000s * 6 Sure Beta 58 * 4 Sure SM 57 * 1 AKG D 112

Interface/digital mixer/mixers * MOTU ultralite firewire * Roland RPC 1 * Mackie 1402 VLZ * Mackie 1202

creation station

Preamps * Aphex 107 * PreSonus Blue tube * The pres. on the Mackies

Signal processors * 2 FMR RNC 1773 compressors * Rane graphic EQ * Rane 1/3 octave anylizer * Line 6 Pod 2 with long board * Tech 21 Bass DI * heaps of stompboxes

Hardare synthesizers * Kurzweil PC 88 * Korg X5 DR * Roland GR33 guitar synth

Instrument amplification * Tech 21 Trademark 60 * Tech 21 Bronzewood * SIlver face Fender Super 6 * Silver face Fender champ * Black face Fender Princton * Crate 5 watt class A * Ashdown Mag 210t bass amp

Power amps * Mackie * Carvin * AB International

Mandolin family

Weber Yellowstone mandolin

Weber Hyalite octave mandolin

1911 Gibson A0 mandolin

Godin lgx sa syth. access guitar

Thompson fretless bass

Thompson silicone string 21.5″ scale bass (awesome acoustic bass tone!)

Godin Multiac nylon string synth access guitar

Thompson mahogany telecaster

Thompson lap steel guitar

Weber square neck resonator guitar

Benson archtop guitar

Thompson 2 neck high string and mandocaster (synth access on mando neck)

Giannini high string guitar

Thompson mandocaster (5 string electric mandolin)

Concertone banjo uke

Carvin Bolt bass

2 Thompson Tubaphone banjos

Thompson “woody” walnut and bubinga banjo

Thompson maple and walnut half fretless banjo

OLP Baritone guitar

Taylor 710 guitar

Various percussion instruments

This is a fretless Banjo with brass overlay.

walnut neck with bubinga fingerboard

flame maple shell with purpleheart tonering

integral flange (no shoes – all wood)

brass on fretboard to the 8th fret

radiused and curved “spillway” type bridge

walnut coordinator rod

click pictures for larger view

wood coordinator rod

2009

It was great fun to record my new songs with a pick up band of some good friends.  My son Josh played bass (a home made upright acoustic electric). Doug Landsverk played guitar (he had never done much of this kind of music before.  He’s an old rocker!)  Dave Rogers played fiddle and I played one of my home made banjos.  I think they did a great job!  We gathered around a pair of ribbon mics in Doug’s new studio and laid it all down live in a day-and-a-half.

Playing with a band sure beats playing all the parts myself, which is the way I did it on previous projects.  We all live in separate distant towns so we may never do this stuff together again.  I cherish the experience.

Procession

Come Lord Jesus

Beautiful Hope

Let My Prayer Arise

Thanksgiving for Light

Waiting In Hope

I Dance My Savior’s Song

Prayers of Hope

Lord’s Prayer

I’ll Keep You Near