The Lord will provide.

Four years ago, I bought some very expensive recording equipment with top-quality studio microphones. I invested close to $2,000 in anticipation of recording the Gospel Messengers for a CD. I was just starting how to use the recorded when our tenor, Derrick, moved to Florida. I ended up putting together a CD of the four of us drawn from home recordings on tape and some live recordings. (One of my better sources were two CDs tha the folks at the Greater Washington Folk Song Society gave me of a concert that the Messengers did there. After four years of seeking a tenor with only disastrous results, I've finally moved the equipment here into my office with the intention of trying to learn how to use the stuff so that I can start recording a long backlog of traditional and original folk music (Using the definition losely) and gospel. I've managed so far to come up with excuses for not starting to TRY to use the equipment because I had no luck the first time. I hate failing. You'd think that I'd have enough experience by now that it wouldn't get to me as much as it does.

So, suddenly...

I've met a couple who run a Christian Book Store in the area, and the husband is looking for a group to sing with. Turned out that he doesn't like the Messengers music because it's too black gospel sounding. At least we got that right. The blessing is that he is an electrical engineer with a fair amount of experience recording groups, and has offered to help me learn to use my equipment.

Now all I have to do is bring in my leaf blower, blow the pile of dust off the equipment and get to work. As I say, I have at least one CD of folk music in me, and one of gospel as a companion to the book that I wrote.

All will be well again. Eventually.

Jerry