Target practice (Taken with instagram)
Happy New Year!
Kingdom Of Comfort acoustic version
So it’s 2012…a new year. So why start with an old delirious? song and not a new one?
A little nostalgia?
maybe…
Actually I think that Kingdom Of Comfort is one of the best songs I’ve ever been a part of writing… and I want to go into this new year remembering the best of the past while living in the now.
I want to keep asking myself what am I building… a comfortable life? Or am I still living with big questions about what I’m here for and how does my living affect others?
Am I deaf to the cries of the oppressed, the poor and the powerless?
I hope that this new year is full of clarity, joy, peace, hope, success and fulfillment for us all!
peace
stu
Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas One and All
Wishing you peace and joy this Christmas Day, and very best wishes for 2012
Advent with Stu g Day 24
Santa Claus is Coming To Town by the Family G
Well here we are… It’s Christmas Eve and so the last window to open on my alternative Advent calendar.
I hope you’ve enjoyed these, I’ve really enjoyed doing them it’s been inspiring.
So that’s almost it for 2011, I hope it’s been a good year for you. This year we find ourselves in Nashville for Christmas…with new friends, but missing our family and friends in the UK.
I continue to be amazed by my wife and girls and how they’ve thrown themselves into life here. Along with the good times and happiness, comes pain and transition… resident in any major change…It’s not always easy so…
I thought it fitting that today’s final Advent 2011 post, comes from us all… that’s:
Karen, Kaitlyn and Eden (not forgetting Buddy the dog who also moved here with us and actually has a passport!!)
Thanks for being interested in what I do, It means a lot to me!
Blessings on you and yours, and have A Very Merry, Happy and Peaceful Christmas!
See you in 2012
Stu g
ps “there’s more where that came from!”
Master songwriter John Scott Sherrill (Taken with instagram)
The amazing Stellas (Taken with instagram)
Advent with Stu g Day 23
O Holy Night with Ben Cantelon
It’s been two years since the last delirious? Show, and in that time It’s been an absolute privilege to work with a diverse bunch of artists.
Someone said to me early in 2010: “Stu maybe this season isn’t about striving to be who you are, but about you helping other people be who they are.”
I think about that everyday.
So when I got a chance to write and record with Ben Cantelon from London, I was thrilled.
Ben has a really, really great voice and is a skilled song writer and lead worshipper.
Just last week we were cutting guitars on his new record and I told him about my advent blogs. Yesterday, he sent me this vocal for O Holy Night and I built a little track around it with my (dubiously intonated 1937) Dobro and an ebow orchestra.
Take a listen…and when he hits the high note at the end, if it doesn’t bring a tear to your eye, you have a heart made of “bah humbug” :-)
Happy Christmas Eve…Eve
Trapped in the H (Taken with instagram)
Advent with Stu g Day 22
O Come O Come Emmanuel
This song is probably the most well known advent carol.
Ian Cron mentioned it in his guest blog on 8th December, and my friend Steve Stockman (Stocki) a Presbyterian minister from Belfast Northern Ireland wrote about it on his blog, Soul Surmise. Here’s a part of what he said:
“Over familiarized, this old carol may seem benign BUT this is a subversive prayer! I guess it depends where you are. If you are a child soldier in some ugly war then bring it on! If you are under strict military regimes and yearn for freedom bring it on! If you are living in the middle of destitute township Africa’s injustice in trade and fairness to clean water and cheap drugs then bring it on!
BUT… if you are in the pampered west living in decadent luxury at the cost of so many then this is a dangerous prayer. Are we ready for “the first made last and the last made first…” Are we ready to serve rather than Lording it? Are we ready for when the poor and the meek take over?”
If you want to read more go check Stocki’s blog out HERE
There are many versions of this carol around and I’ve just added my own to the list.
I’ve tried to create a sense of longing with the guitar…
Hope you enjoy it!
3 more sleeps
