Free Show in Nashville

Our label Centricity Music is putting on a free showcase this Monday night in Nashville so if you are anywhere close come on out and enjoy a free night of live music!

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Lessons From Nashville

I've ingested a lot of mental material over the past couple of days while attending a songwriters retreat thanks to our label Centricity Music as well as a marriage retreat thanks to Porters Call. Speakers I heard include Reed Arvin, Dr. Dan Allender and artist Cindy Morgan as well as others. I would like to share more about it but I am just too fried right now to dig into it too deeply so here are a few key quotes/ideas I'd like to share for starters.

Concerning the technological revolution going on in music today:

-Skill has been displaced due to it not being necessary. What is necessary and most valuable today are ideas.
-We have less silence than any other humans before us. What kills ideas is the lack of quiet.

Concerning creating as a Christian:

-Christians tend to be distrustful of the deepest parts of their lives.
-There is confusion in the Christian writer between earnestness & soulfulness.

Concerning productivity:

-Never hurry, never rest.
-My talent is only set by how much focused work/time I am willing to put in.
-"It is wisdom to savor what is good."

Concerning songs:

-The verse is yours the chorus is the audiences.
-Songs should always stand without a set up.

Concerning men and women and God:

-Man struggles with not being enough and woman struggles with being too much.
-Man and woman in relationship together reveal God.
-Your face has been grafted by God. Every face reveals His glory. Do you love your face? Can you say it's beautiful?
-4 areas too dangerous to talk about, sex, money, children and in-laws.

I know I kind of left these quotes naked, without explanation. If there are ones you are more curious about mention it in a comment and I'll post more in depth in the coming week.

GL

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New Favorite Email

As most of you are aware I play in a band named "downhere". By the way, we are giving our album away for free for just a few more days this month in case you were unawares. Anyway, we work with a company called Centricity Music. They are great to work with and they really do a good job at creating a family like atmosphere within the company, between artists and employees. So we sometimes like to have a little fun with each other.

Below is the first email all of the artists received from Steve Ford our VP of sales and marketing at Centricity. Below that you will find the response of Circleslide's very own Gabe Martinez. I love it!

GL

"All,

Greetings. I hope all of you are well as you are spread all around the
world.

We have manufactured a sampler CD that features a song from each of
you. We are giving this away for free with every purchase on the web
store. We have produced enough for each of you to have some on your
tables to give away with each purchase.

Would you be interested in carrying this with you? If so I would love
to give each of you a box of 150 (same size as your 30 CD box). Please
let me know how I can get these to you.

Thanks all.

Steve Ford"

Thanks steve,

I guess the best way to get this to me...do you know the barnes and noble in
cool springs? Inside in the 'sci-fi' fantasy section there is a book called
'elfsong' by elaine cunningham. If you open that book you'll find a detailed
map of the inside of the parthenon that I drew up. Go to the parthenon,
follow the map...and it will reveal a hidden passageway behind the men's
restroom. In there, you'll see a set of keys for a 1988 chrysler lebaron.
Grab those keys, and go get the car (it's parked in front of LP field)...and
at the stroke of midnight, in the back lot of 'the dog of nashville' there
will be three men of middle eastern descent. Get out of the car slowly ( I
can't stress this part enough) and walk backwards towards them speaking the
password that you found in the glove compartment underneath the tony robbins
signed 8X10's.
They will proceed to search you for any weapons...don't be alarmed...then,
after you give them the secret handshake...also in the glove
compartment...you can give them the CD's...and they, in turn, will give them
go me.

Or, if it's easier, I'll be at a meeting at the Centricity offices on Friday
afternoon...and I can pick them up there.

Whatever is more convenient for you.

Peace,

gabe

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