O Holy Night

O Holy Night.mp3 (disabled due to over-traffic… email me for a copy)

Above is a link to the song that I did with the great Michelle Williams this morning for a special music piece at Loudonville Community Church. It’s an arrangement of O Holy Night that Point of Grace did on their first Christmas CD… well, I might as well post a link to the whole album here (see right).

In all honesty… and I know this will totally floor a bunch of you… despite TSO, Mannheim Steamroller, the Merry Axemas’s and Gary Hoey… this one here by POG is my favorite Christmas album (there… I said it).

Ok, time to get self-critical. Quite frankly, my guitar tone was a little harsher than I would have liked… and if I had known how much the recording was going to pick-up (which means that everyone heard what the recording now reveals to me) I would have done more delicate embellishments and been gentler with my volume pedal, for instance at times my sound cuts out for what sounds like no reason, but the reason is that to my ears up on stage I thought my sound was sufficiently faded at times to inaudible levels… so I would cut it with my pedal. Unfortunately, it was only inaudible to me (the guy with the amp pointed at his head), but not for everyone else. Don’t you love it when you as an instrumentalist hear yourself worse than your audience? :-| The violin of course sounded great. :-) It blended so well with the backing track that you’d think it was part of the track, too. We had a few “moments” but only we really know about them. :-) Michelle is super-talented and I’d play with her again in a second.

This entry was written by WarAxe, posted on December 18, 2005 at 10:29 pm, filed under Faith, Guitar, Music and tagged , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. alissa
    Posted December 19, 2005 at 3:39 pm | Permalink

    Mom called me all the way here in New York to tell me how great it was. :)

  2. Ken
    Posted December 19, 2005 at 4:54 pm | Permalink

    Well done.

  3. Tony G
    Posted December 20, 2005 at 10:29 pm | Permalink

    Sounded grrrreat!

  4. Judy Niles
    Posted December 26, 2005 at 4:20 pm | Permalink

    from one of you past teachers Michelle …that was wonderful. I remain so very proud of you. Your playing is very special…a true gift. Love you and a very Merry and Blessed Christmas.

  5. Leighancher
    Posted November 26, 2007 at 6:34 am | Permalink

    is it possible to get the backing track to this song. i love it sooooooo much and some1 asked me to sing it…???

  6. Tim Hitchins
    Posted December 4, 2007 at 12:31 pm | Permalink

    Hiya…….is it possible for you to send me a copy of the recording by email please?….we are thinking about doing this song christmas…many thanks Tim

  7. Christelle
    Posted December 16, 2007 at 1:47 pm | Permalink

    Hi there - could you possibly send me a copy of this by email? And could you tell me how I could get hold of the backing track.. am in desperate need of it as soon as possible!

    Thankyou very much! x

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