I have always had sort of a love-hate relationship with Christian Music. I loved it in college. I used to pray to God that I might please, please have a life in ministry oriented music. Pages in my college journal are devoted to this desire, but as yet a life in music has not materialized. I have given up on singing for the past several years, and while my husband IS a musician, he does not often find opportunities to play outside Grace Church. Also in college, I ran a program on the University Radio Station for a time. That is where I first fell in love with a band called Waterdeep.
Don and Lori Chaffer head up Waterdeep. They have recorded solo albums and worship albums and Waterdeep albums. One year when I was in college we brought them here, to Tuscaloosa, to perform with 100 Portraits at what was then The Ivory Tusk.
So the record Parker and I have been listening to lately is called Please Don't Make Us Sing This Song (Various Artists). It is part of a project Don and Lori are currently involved with called The Voice (http://www.hearthevoice.com/), and every song on the recording is based in scripture. The title song is taken from Psalm 137 and says, "If I can't remember [my true home] may I never sing a song again." Lori Chaffer performs it and it is beutiful, but then, I am always and forever more biased in Lori Chaffer's favor.
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I have always enjoyed being around when you you are singing. I agree that Waterdeep has good songs. One for my favorite lyrics of theirs keeps rattling around in my head from time to time:
I don’t think
I’ve ever wanted as much
To be free as I’ve longed to be known.
And of the things that I hate
As I look at my life,
The worst is my being alone.
That's one of my favorites too. It's the last track on Don Chaffer's first solo album, "You Were At the Time for Love," the first thing I think I ever listened to by him.
While I usually think Waterdeep's music is "alright" there is one song, and one rendition of it, that is just amazing. It's got a great groove, the melody has some golden moments, and Lori does a great job at it. It's called "Whether or Not".
The Muncie, IN recording is the one I'm talking about, not the other one.
This is such a great tune. The sound preview on the link above is just an introduction, and it doesn't even get to the groove of the chorus and you don't get to hear Lori sing anything, so please don't let that disappointing sound bite influence your opinion of the song.
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