"Cry of My Heart" MRW & Friends - (9/24/2000 Reality Check)
Posted May 30, 2006
I have to tell you, I listened to this tape for the first time in about 2 years a couple weeks ago and I couldn't help but laugh when I heard this song. For those of you who are keeping track, this is from the first night of Reality Check 2000 at East Baptist Church in Charlotte (if at this point you're completly lost, head on over to www.myspace.com/timhoeksema and check out the "Stand Up and Praise Him" blog).
This was the night where the congragation was invited to get a little taste of what would be going on that week. Some way or another it was decided that David Cruse (our choir director) would be involved with the music that night. He, along with Tammy Miller (our pianist) and Gabe Hoff (one of the choir members) joined Luke and I on vocals. The instrumentation simple, it was just the core band that night.
Now the reason I laughed when I heard this doesn't really have to do with anyones performance or even the audio quality. It was all because when we would play this song in our youth service, everyone would yell out "Oh Oh, Ooohh!" in between the verse and the chorus. It pretty much makes me laugh every time I hear it because it's pretty silly, but this version of the song has an extra goofball quality to it. See I learned this song when I was still living up in Michigan and had played it there with my friend Andy Lloyd. Andy is probably the most talented musician I have ever met, and played countless instruments, one of which is the steel pan. When he and I did this song together he used his steel pan and so our version had a islandy kind of feel to it so the "Oh's didn't seem so bad then..... Not the case in the version with the choir here! I guess what it really boils down to is that I am amazed I got those folks to do it! (With the exception of Tammy, cause she has some soul).
Well thats all for today. I hope your week is off to a good start. Hopefully I'll get the rotation back into swing this week and get some Reflections of Glory stuff up on Thursday. See Ya then..
