Monday, July 17, 2023

Music Monday: Friend Of God

It’s been raining cats and dogs here! I took Joey, our 85 pound Golden Doodle, with me yesterday up to the Blue Ridge Parkway to record some “B” Roll for the church, and specifically, Music Monday. The video that have been using is not very long and I have to loop it a number of times to cover a MM segment. That’s always bugged me so I decided to do something about it. Well, it turns out from all this rain we have been experiencing, the small lake dam on the BRP that’s close to the James River / Big Island entrance to the Parkway was experiencing some serious water flow. I got some video of that as well as some other parts of the water near there and will be using some of this footage here on Music Mondays, until I tired of that haha! Today’s song, Friend Of God, was another one of those opportunities where I was able to bring in some of our singers to record. It was doing a time when we were closed due to Covid, so they came one at a time to record. The backdrop video I set it with was drone footage I shot early one morning of the front of the church, going straight up - 400 feet. The mountains were beautiful that morning. When I first used this arrangement, which takes advantage once again of my flugelhorn friend, Lynn Nash, as well as myself on trombone, the comments I got were good, but a lot of them said the beginning sounds like the opening music to the original Love Boat TV show haha! What do you think? Here’s Friend Of God.