I know we all have our favorite tab sites, but sometimes we Google a song and come up empty. Sometimes we find a chart that just doesn’t seem to be exactly right. If you find this to be the case, you might want to try the artist or songwriters website. I know a lot of popular Christian bands and songwriters actually put their chord charts/lyrics online. What better place to get a chart than from the actual songwriter or performer.  Here are a few of my favorites that have their songs online:

• Pocket Full Of Rocks
• Brenton Brown
• Jesus Culture Music
• Big Daddy Weave
• Fee Band (Steve Fee)
• Lead Worship with Paul Baloche
• Addison Road

I am sure there are many more out there, these are just a few of the artist that I know put their chord charts online.  Feel free to comment with others that do the same.

Well Awaken 2010 has come and gone, and it has taken me a couple of days to get my head back together and get a good nights sleep.  Man what a night, what a day.  Got to the venue about 10:00 am and left about 1:00 am, man I am glad I don’t do that every weekend.  First, I need to say thanks to so many people that made this happen.  I can’t list them all, but you know who you are.  This event couldn’t have been a success without so many great volunteers.  No we didn’t have a sell out crowd, but the event was a success!  We had some great bands and a great night of worship.  For those of you who bought tickets and didn’t make it, you really missed out.  Just ask anyone who was there.  Would I do it again?  Yes, definitely.  There is no doubt in my mind that we were supposed to do this.  Sure I wish it would have been a packed house but the 5 or 600 that saw the event got a blessing.  There is no doubt we learned a lot.  Sure we made some mistakes, but we will know a lot more about what to do next year.  The most important thing we saw was that doing something like this takes a tremendous amount of time and effort.  Getting it together in three weeks was difficult but not impossible.  Next year we will take about 3 months to put it together.  Secondly we won’t plan the event the night of the Gum Tree or college graduation.  We will definitely double check to see what is going on before we set a date.  Of course we choose May 8th for a specific reason, and I don’t regret that at all.

I must say a big thank you to the bands that came:  Shane & Shane, Brenton Brown, The Glorious Unseen, Northstar, Notus, and Cross-Eyed.  From the pre-show to the finale everyone was great.  We got a little late start with sound check running long, but everything came together great.  It was amazing to get to be around so many great Christian artists.  And I picked up a few little tips and tricks along the way.  Even joined Cross-Eyed on the stage to play a few songs.  It was nice to be able to crank up the Vox for a change.

Thanks to Gary Permenter!  He did a great job.  If you are looking for a speaker, you need to check this guy out.  Not only is a very funny, but he is great man of God.

Another big THANK YOU to everyone from ICC who helped make this event possible.  You guys are great and made this a first class event.  This wouldn’t have been possible without you.  The Davis Event Center is a awesome venue for any concert.  I can’t believe more people haven’t made use of it.

And last but definitely not least, Thank You God.  Without you none of this would be possible.  You make all things good and you definitely had a big hand in this event.  THANK YOU

I hope to get some event pics and videos added later today so check back often.

photos by Lee Adams

Like the Angels by Brenton Brown

When I am sinking down, when I am lost at sea
No solace to be found, no ground beneath my feet
I turn to you as i go down, i reach for you through roaring waves
My only hope is in Your arms, my only prayer is that you’d save me

Cause you make me soar like the angels
You let me walk on the water
You let me run with white horses
Jesus my strength when all is gone
You are my strength when all is gone

When i am all alone, no land is in my sight
All others lost from view, and comes the darkening night
I reach for you as i go down, i look to you through wind and waves
My only hope is in Your arms, my only prayer is that you’d save me

brenton brown
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Got the Awaken website up and running, going to be a awesome event for Northeast MS.  Shane & Shane, The Glorious Unseen, and Brenton Brown, its going to be great.  Can’t wait until May 8th……