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A Mighty Fortress is Our God
Posted on October 7th, 2009 in Church Life, Faith, Worship Leadership by Fred McKinnon
Several months ago, my pastor, David Yarborough (blog | twitter) started asking me about this new Christy Nockels song, “A Mighty Fortress”. We have an incredibly talented (and I’d add anointed!) vocalist, musician, worship leader in our church, Ms. Kim Dixon who could cover this song perfectly.
If you haven’t heard this wonderful anthem, check it out on iTunes.
(and yes … the link is an affiliate link. Your purchase of this tune will add somewhere around a nickel to our bank account. My kids say thank you!)
While I was at the National Worship Leader Conference in Kansas City this summer I had the pleasure of hearing Christy lead this song. It was powerful – and I couldn’t help myself, I slipped to the back of the room and dialed Pastor David and said “listen what I’m experiencing LIVE”.
Kim is on the praise team this week and I’ve decided to bring in this song as a special. It’s gorgeous! I’d call it an anthem, and it gets bigger and bigger in the middle with full orchestral parts and some driving electric guitars.
With a bit more planning, I would’ve scored out the string parts and given one of our other keyboardist the job of playing these parts live. With our Tech Director, Travis Paulding (blog | twitter) on vacation and the Yamaha M7CL console already setup (and limited time to arrange) I’m going to attempt a click track and loop today. I hope to add a rhythmic loop, perhaps some percussion and some big string arrangements.
I LOVE STUDIO DAYS.







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