How To Play The Acoustic Version Of Be Thou My Vision…
January 1, 1970
OK, many of you have got a hold of the big guitar driven, full band,
anthem-ic version of Be Thou My Vision from Mercy Tracks Me Down – but
what do you do if you only have an acoustic guitar?
Well, here’s what I do
I’m giving away Be thou My Vision from the album…
January 1, 1970
Let me tell you the story behind this song and why I’m giving it away for FREE.
For years, I’ve been using a unique version of Be Thou My Vision as part of my worship set and it always has a profound effect on congregations and audiences around the world.
In fact, at the time of writing this I have just returned from Eastern Europe where my band (A Perfect Stone) and I have been playing in such diverse venues as churches, bars, night clubs and orphanages. On each occasion we finished our set with this guitar driven, anthemic version of Be Thou My Vision.
Every single time we sang the song it was a sublime moment.
For the party goers of the bars and clubs it was amazing to see their response to His presence in the midst of worship that they didn’t realise was going on. U2′s Bono has described these kind of moments as ‘like God walking into the room’. For the Christian believers it was a profound intimate worship experience.
The same experience has been repeated in the USA, France, Ireland in fact everywhere I have used this version.
I even got this email after last Sunday night from one of our folks at Causeway Coast Vineyard church.
“I didn’t get a chance to chat with you after the service, but worship was amazing. I have never sung a more powerful hymn than that night”
And this FaceBook comment
Yet, despite being asked many times for a recording of this arrangement it’s only recently that I got to do it as part of an album project called Mercy Tracks Me Down.
So, why am I giving it away for FREE?
Find out at www.BeThouMyVision.co.uk
There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama apparently…
January 1, 1970
It’s Official, Barack Obama is Irish!
Hardy Drew and the Nancy Boys played at an election night gig in a pub in Moneygall, a small town in central Ireland from where a local clergyman, citing official records, said Senator Obama’s ancestor, Fulmuth Kearney, emigrated in 1850.
Thanks again to Dave Wainscott for pointing this out to me
Well I never!
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'I've known Andy for 18 years - both as a worship leader in the church I attended as a teenager, and then as a friend and co-leader as we grew a little older together.
