Tonight Stephen and I attended a concert at BYU-I featuring the Nashville Tribute Band perfoming the albums, "Trek" and "Joseph" . These are 2 staple church CDs at our house and are beloved by each member of our family. If you haven’t heard the songs to these tributes please come and borrow ours or better for you in the long run, buy them! There was a lot to live up to tonight for us and we were not disappointed.
Getting to know the face behind the music was absolutely my favorite part…Jason Deere is the founder/writer and is seriously one neat dude. He has a soft heart and is a musical master. On the way home I kept wondering (even out loud) who he reminded me of…I finally came up with it – my little brother Scott. If you didn’t know it, I really like my brother – so that explains why I instantly liked Jason Deere. He is like a giant professional missionary. In fact, I was delighted to hear him say that he is making a new Nashville Tribute about missionaries! It will be out at the first of the year…you know I’ll be getting that.
Just to those of you who don’t know me well enough to remember that country music isn’t my first choice of music style, this stuff mixed with gospel content just hits the spot for me.
Also something to look for is the newly formed band,"Due West". They have a hit on the country charts, "I Get That All the Time." The band is produced by Jason Deere, and three members of the Nashville Tribute Band make it up. They formed this secular band because they wanted to have a band sing in Nashville with standards to look to (they won’t be singing about tears in their beers or cheatin’ hearts). They hope to someday draw a crowd that will be interested in hearing their testimonies through the Joseph and Trek music. I get it…wish I could explain it better.
Here are two of our favorite songs from these tributes for you to sample:
1. "How much can one heart take" – song about Emma Smith (I love Mindy Gledhill)
2."Crack of a whip" – My children’s personal favorite!