A New Thing

So my blogging record has dwindled to once a year and I'm really embarrassed about it. I have a lot of (in my estimation) really profound thoughts, but I lack the fuel to get the thoughts from my head to the computer.

Anyhoo- I want to tell you about this new thing that is going on in the Youngman family. NO, IT'S NOT ANOTHER YOUNGMAN and don't even think it lest it become true!! Although, it does feel a bit like birth; I've been working on a record for the last nine months or so. At first I was too shy or emarrassed to say that I say out loud that I'm a songwriter, especially in Nashville. Seems a bit cliche. But this last year God just did some amazing things in my life to bring these songs to the surface. And, I got connected to a really great producer in Nashville, David Henry of Brother Henry, who helped me live into the idea of being an artist.

In the last month I have opened for Beth Neilsen Chapman who was very complimentary of me to the point of wanting me to send her the record when it's finished so she can pass it on to some crazy-famous artists that she thinks might want to cut a song or two; I have printed an EP to get a few of the songs out there before the whole thing is finished (the nights and weekends production plan takes a long time to complete); I had one of my songs selected for the emergent podcast; and I just walked out of the studio realizing that I had nine songs in the can. That means I've got one more to go and I think we'll call it an album.

I don't really know where this whole thing is headed, but I have to say that I am really cognizant of the way God lets various aspects of our callings percolate in us until just the right time. All of this is to say that God is always doing something in our lives and when we pay enough attention to it we can, almost tangibly, feel the presence of God doing a new thing.

My website is coming together. You can read my press kit and listed to a few songs at my epk site. Stay Tuned.