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My experiment

For a long time I’ve wanted to find a way to share some of my favorite music here. Music is a great coping technique for me. I’m quite the shower and living room (when no one is there) singer. It’s hard to be depressed when you sing. The lyrics of my favorite music have comforted me when I’m down, made me laugh, helped me get off the couch when I didn’t really feel up to it etc.

But, I don’t want to “give away” someone else’s music. I just want to give a little publicity to some of the musicians I really like and share what I’m listening to these days.

Then it hit me. I could set my camera next to the speaker on my computer and make a video clip (with no video) of a few songs. The sound quality isn’t great – but hey, if you think you like it you can go out and buy the CD and have much better sound quality. Grin!

So, the song I picked for this experiment is by a Christian artist named Jennifer Knapp. She’s sort of a folk/rock artist. Her music varies from pretty “rock’in” to more of a folky bent. I like the folk stuff.

This song is called Oceans of Mercy.

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