Category: songs by Lori Jo

New Song: You Can Have

Hmmm… there’s a story behind this one…but I’ll save it for another day. It’s fairly self-explanatory, and somewhat related to one of the points of the sermon this week: 3.  GOD’S GREATEST CHALLENGE IS TO GET ME TO A PLACE WHERE I AM WILLING TO SURRENDER MY TIME, TALENT AND TREASURE FOR HIS CAUSE. and from stuff…

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Song for Japan Video (Version 2)

Cellphones are not the best audio recording devices, and I am glad my friend recorded it, but she was right about the sound quality, so I spent a bit of my evening recording it “live” from my bedroom, because I know God didn’t give me this song to keep to myself. So here you go….

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song for Japan {hold back the waters}

I went to bed last night with a heavy heart after hearing the devastating news about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. When I woke up today, I had a few thoughts. The first, I was reminded of Psalm 46, one of the few I have memorized, here are the verses 1-7, in the NIV,…

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sneak peek of a song

what you are about to hear is a one-take iPhone recording while i was composing back in december. the beginning of the song is super sloppy and rough, but as i composed a song started coming together, it’s still rough, it’s just a sketch. the end of the song is my favorite part. I need…

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My first february song

I’ll be honest…I’m not really excited or proud of this song….I started trying to compose some intricate piece about creation…sounding like void and darkness and then light…and got overwhelmed by trying to use too many different synth sounds and my weaknesses of playing and it was just frustrating me…so I closed that and opened a…

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New Song and Why I Wrote It: Trust

What you are about to hear is the sound of  yours truly alone in a tiny practice room with a baby grand on a Friday afternoon. I recorded this rough take on my iPhone, it’s an original song I wrote this past summer. It’s rough but I wanted to get it out here and let u have a…

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