#primarysongs

I undertook a big project this year - I made audio recordings of 17 Christmas Songs, six of those I recorded in both English and Spanish. Not just any Christmas songs but the songs from the Children’s Songbook. I’ve been serving in primary music callings for more than four years now and so I’ve got primary songs on the brain, in my soul and what have you. I noticed that some of the songs were very familiar and a few of them I didn’t even know very well so I thought it would be a great project to learn all of them and record them. I didn’t want to just make piano versions of them though (don’t get me wrong, I love the piano! but it’s all so familiar) I decided to put my spin on them with acoustic arrangements, using classical guitar in my own JGT style.

I worked on it starting at the end of October and I finished them Thanksgiving weekend. They are all posted on my youtube channel, one playlist of 16 songs in English and another playlist of 7 songs in Spanish (Estrella de luz is found only in Spanish). Not only do they have acoustic guitar accompaniments but there are some spots of tasteful percussion, bells, and a few other fitting instruments along with my voice doing overdubbed harmonies in many places. It turned out very well, I really like the vibe and I think that even in all the many Christmas recordings there are in the world there is a place for these. They have a sort of down to earth vibe, maybe almost a neo-folk hipster sound with latin accents and one western leaning cowboy campfire sounding song (Once Within A Lowly Stable). 

So it’s definitely not a polished pop sound but that’s not really ever what I go for, if you’ve heard some of the other projects I’ve done you’ll know I have a more loose and eclectic sound but still they are very respectful and Christ centered of course and I’d love for you to listen to them - start here and if you like them please go to my you tube page and subscribe/like/bookmark or whatever you want to do so you can play them whenever you’re in the mood. Subscribing will also help you find my future videos which I will most definitely be posting of lots of original and well known sacred music.

Thank you and Merry Christmas - He Lives!