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MP3 Jerry Blair - Words of Christ In Red
11 MP3 Songs in this album (45:18) !
Related styles: Spiritual: Contemporary Christian, Spiritual: Christian Rock, Christian
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I''m a songwriter. I am so honored to be a runner-up in Gary Allen''s "Best Song In The World Contest," a runner-up in the Tennessee Concerts Song Contest, and a featured artist at Tennessee Concerts! I focus on Christian rock and CCM. The world is broken. I write songs/perform to help fix it. I believe that a good song is something that moves you - there must be a movement invoked - whether it moves your body or your spirit or both, and I try to do that in what I write, and if something I do moves people the way I have been moved, I am thankful.
Rich Mullins sang in his song Elijah that music "is the finest thing I have ever found." I agree, having done many things in my life, and also being a veteran combat soldier, an award winning writer of short stories, poetry, and a novel, practicing as a country lawyer whose caseload was primarily very poor people, and many other life experiences. I have a lot of academic degrees, and even attended a Bible college, and people have called me "Doc" as a nickname since I was five, but truly in spite of all that education, I still turned out alright.
I listen to and perform in every genre that I know of at one time or another. I was privileged to grow up around fervent bluegrass, country and country gospel music artists. It was not uncommon for The Lilly Brothers, a successful Bluegrass Band from West Virginia who toured the world and performed with Flatt & Scruggs, to come around to my grandfather''s house. It was through them I started picking on a mandolin and have been banging on instruments since then. I have also been privileged to have crossed paths with many other greats including Billy Edd Wheeler, member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, who has sold more than 70 million albums writing songs for Johnny Cash, Elvis and many others. I discovered rock and the righteous soulful early work of Elton John and his gospelish fusion of blues and rock-n-roll blew me away. Southern Rock pulled my soul. Then Contemporary Christian Music started and carried me away. I was in Huntington WV when the great Michael W. Smith started his journey - I remember his first band’s “I AM”. I was there when songwriter Chuck Lawrence had his “He Grew The Tree” accepted to record by Barbara Mandrell - she sent him flowers with a card that said "He Grew The Tree is my favorite song." ["He grew the tree-that He knew would be-used to make the old rugged cross" - great writing.]
My influences are sincerely too numerous to name, but certainly my fellow West Virginia boy, the great artist Michael W. Smith, and the incomparable Rich Mullins have been a blessing to me beyond words, as was Larry Norman, the father of Christian Rock. I studied a lot of guitar from the music of the Rolling Stones and other rock greats, and piano mainly from Elton John''s amazing works. I am an "old school" musician who believes in helping other musicians and exchanging "licks" and negativity has no place in my life. I believe in Jesus Christ, and I know the world is broken and I want to do my part to repair it and lift people up, and I mean loving one another as a verb and not pie-in-the-sky philosophizing. My attitude is that I''ll play any venue - a bar of any kind the same as a church of any kind, a back room or a stadium, because I believe that is what Jesus would do - I''ll go where people are, I "do" love and don''t judge them, and rock our souls and try to feed them too. I play with different bands and do sets of classic rock, blues, and Christian Rock. It''s about the music, the message, and His love - not about me.
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