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As I’m sure you know, I have a Facebook group named “Music Makes Me” that I post a daily music video along with my weekly First Angel Media article. This Facebook group is coming up this week on its one-year anniversary. I can hardly believe it myself. One of the things that I have attempted to do during that time is to not repeat an artist that I have featured in earlier weeks. As you...
Last month’s playlist, Romeo and Juliet, was for the month of February and those that celebrated Valentines Day. Ironically I created this month’s playlist over a year ago and titled it Life. The last couple of weeks have been a bit crazy in my life and as some of you may have noticed I’ve not had an article in three weeks. But I am back again today and hopefully fully back in the saddle. It...
Most week’s my Music Makes Me article is pretty light. For example some of the recent week’s articles have been about music genres that are a little different. This week I discovered a band named Convictions who are a Christian Metal band. Obviously most bands’ lyrics are based on something in their real lives. Convictions is no exception. A lot of their songs deal with the struggles of so many of us. The first Convictions...
Last February’s monthly playlist was titled “Love Songs?”. It had romantic love songs like “Before He Cheats” by Carrie Underwood, “I Hope” by Gabby Barrett and “Love Hurts” by Nazareth. Obviously it was meant for those of us that were not celebrating the Valentine’s holiday for one reason or another. This year the playlist title “Romeo & Juliet” would lead you to believe it’s for lovers, but that was not the case. This month’s playlist...
I woke up Friday morning to the sad news that one of the artists of my youth had died the night before. Michael Lee Aday, better known by most as Meat Loaf, died at the age of 74 surrounded by his wife and daughters. My first exposure, like many of us, was to his Bat Out Of Hell album but that was not his first and was not going to be his last in his...
Last week in Music Makes Me I had talked about the surprise of the sheer number of different genres that music was classified into. After giving it some more thought this week, I thought that it would be interesting over the next few weeks to explore some of the genres that I didn’t know existed or that I thought you would find interesting. As you may recall, last week I talked about some odd ones...
Last week’s article contained a playlist to help you get inspired for the new year. This week I am exploring some genre oddities that I discovered when exploring one of the groups featured this week. A couple days ago in my Music Makes Me group I featured a band with a genre that I had never heard of before I found them. It made me start to wonder just how many genres there are today...
This week I wanted to take a moment to wish all of you, my readers, a Merry Christmas. As I am sure you saw this month’s playlist article had a Christmas playlist. As I do for many of my articles, I talk about memories that are connected to music. Today I decided to do the same for some of my Christmas memories. One of my early memories of Christmas was singing Christmas carols on Christmas...
Last week I gave you some music to listen to when you wanted something to play when decorating your tree or baking Christmas cookies. December is the time where some of us are catching our breaths at the end of a busy year. Some of us reflect on what the year that just passed brought into our paths. At this time of year, if you are a Spotify listener, it has a cool little feature...
Last week I gave thanks to someone who unknowingly was one of the people in my life who started me down my musical path. One of this week’s songs, Steve Curtis Chapman’s “Cinderella”, made me think about how we all connect to the different songs we hear. And it also made me remember that this time last year my series “Music Makes Me” started. Music affects our emotions in so many different ways. If you...
