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About Buried Talents Band

In July 2006, Chris Solaas was sitting in a church service, half-listening to his Pastor Tim Lampley talking about the parable of the talents.

Suddenly, something the pastor said got his attention - 'The talent mentioned here could be anything God has given you that you have NOT invested in His kingdom.'

'That's YOU,' God suddenly seemed to say to Chris. 'YOU are that wicked servant. You buried the songwriting talent I gave you.'

It was true. Chris had written songs early in life, from 1976 - 1986, he wrote about 30 love songs, many depressing, some rather good. But since 1986, he'd written only a few songs, all pointedly Christian, when God pounded them into his skull.

God had told Chris this before, but all that came out of it was the song, 'A Reward'.

This time, God wasn't going to take 'no' for an answer.

So Chris said 'ok, God, I'll take whatever songwriting talent I have and use it for Your glory.'

Since that time, God has given Chris about a song a week.

What you are hearing is the first installment in that investment, our first album, Painted On Smiles.

Our second album, Forever and a Day, is due out this coming fall. I should be replacing a couple of these songs here eventually with 2 songs from that album, but you can listen to samples of it on our website at


www.buriedtalentsband.com

You can also listen to full tracks of most of these albums at our SoundClick site at www.soundclick.com/buriedtalentsband.com

Chris has already written Two additional Albums, 'Come And See', 'Broken Pieces', and is working on an Advent Story Album. These albums won't be out until next year.

As you can see, the band will have a hard time catching up with the writing.