ChitChat: NEW SERIES – “Across The Aisle” Highlights CCM
by EJ on Mar.25, 2009 at 4:30 pm, under Music
I wanna take a quick minute to announce a new series I’m starting called Across The Aisle.
In case you’re not familiar with the expression, you typically hear of someone reaching “across the aisle” in a political sense, kinda BRIDGING THE GAP between two separate sides (often, democrat and republican) for the sake of some greater, collective good of the WHOLE.
So, the Across The Aisle series is gonna do just that. GospelPundit.com is a website focused on the Gospel music community, but we often exclude what is termed “Contemporary Christian Music” or “CCM” because it’s not… “our” kind of music. And we play ourselves.
The truth is:
(1) God didn’t call us to define our “genres” in that way. It’s practical and it sometimes makes sense to be able to distinguish what Steven Curtis Chapman does from what Twinkie Clark does. But we often abuse the classifications, creating unnecessary rifts and divides (racial and otherwise) within the Body of Christ;
(2) If you listen, you’ll love it. I enjoy a B3 organ as much as the next guy, but there’s also nothing quite like a simple acoustic guitar sometimes, and maaaaany popular gospel songs are simply re-made from CCM songs in the first place (i.e., “Above All” and “Great Is Your Mercy”). You love it already and you prolly didn’t even know it!
So, that’s what’s fixin’ to go down.
Lemme know if you have a favorite CCM artist you want featured. Aight?!
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March 25th, 2009 on 5:30 pm
You know i’m smiling dude…
March 25th, 2009 on 6:27 pm
ej thaNKS so much I love CCM its amazing!!!!! pure worship
I love chris tomlin and natalie grant
and MICHAEL W. SMITH the father of praise and worship lol
and mercy me and barlow girls and casting crowns ugh I LOVE IT
March 25th, 2009 on 7:59 pm
I love this concept! Really appreciate you for always keeping it real.
March 25th, 2009 on 9:11 pm
Amen! Even if the music may not be my style sometimes, the words are powerful and moving…
I love many CCM artists…
My favorite is Casting Crowns!
March 25th, 2009 on 11:43 pm
I would just like to say….
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
Now I might actually be able to make some contributions to the discussions on this here website
March 26th, 2009 on 1:20 am
Fantastic EJ! I’m so glad you’re adding this. Natalie Grant is definitely one of my favorites. I also enjoy Nicole C. Mullen.
March 26th, 2009 on 8:12 am
@all: glad you’re liking the idea! gimme more names!!
@A. Will: i know you’re smiling. maybe this will get you off my back.
@mdixon: chris tomlin and natalie grant are at the very TOP of my list of “to-be-featured” artists, prolly in that order. you stalkin’ me?!
@Odi: welcome! thanks for commenting– i’m DEFINITELY doing casting crowns!
March 26th, 2009 on 9:15 am
Is tobyMac considered CCM??? It’s a couple years old by now, but I’m still digging ‘Made To Love’ on his ‘Portable Sounds’ project.
March 26th, 2009 on 7:53 pm
YAY!!! I am SO excited! You know I love Natalie Grant, Michael W. Smith, Chris Tomlin, MercyMe, and Kari Jobe! Do it, do it, do it!
March 26th, 2009 on 11:44 pm
how bout nichole nordeman, jeremy camp, jimmy needham, steven curtis chapman…
March 27th, 2009 on 3:13 pm
Thx for the welcome EJ… It has been a blessing to discover this site. Thx for being available to be used through this avenue.
I’m looking forward to the feature on Casting Crowns…
March 27th, 2009 on 7:34 pm
“Across the aisle”, great idea!
May 12th, 2009 on 3:53 pm
We did this thing at my church with my worship team (our congregation is very mixed) I had everyone bring in cd’s or dvd’s that they own to share with others for up to two weeks. So you had some of our white team mates taking home Da’ Truth and Judy McAllister. I took home Phillips, Craig, and Dean, who are pretty good by the way, one of our older team members got Kirk Franklin, and there was Vineyard music flying all over the place. I shared this with an online worship leader community that I am part of and some people also adopted the idea (www.worshipthe rock.com)
Selah is also OFF THE CHAIN!
G
May 12th, 2009 on 3:54 pm
OOH! Jimmy Needham was here in Grand Rapids about a month ago. Seriously, he is the gospel Robin Thicke!
May 15th, 2009 on 10:39 pm
I absolutely love CCM. You talking about some W-O-R-S-H-I-P! I get taken in on the first phrase of these songs. The guitar, the pure voices, I don’t get enough!
June 2nd, 2009 on 3:18 pm
I soooo agree wit you! I love all genre’s of music glorying the name of the Lord! so A to da Men!
June 2nd, 2009 on 3:44 pm
its all about avalon, newsboys, dc talk, third day, natalie grant and newsong. they stay on repeat
June 2nd, 2009 on 4:30 pm
3 absolute musts are Crystal Lewis (the Christian Teena Marie); Jon Gibson (blue eyed Stevie Wonder) and Tim Miner (the blue eyed Brian McKnight who was out BEFORE Brian McKnight).
Also, when talking about Nicole C Mullen, you have to mention that had a career in Christian music years before her so called debut. Back then she was called just, “Nicole” and her music was very Paula Abdul/Jody Watley/Janet Jackson with Christian rappers guesting on various cuts. Back then she was produced by Tim Miner.
August 19th, 2009 on 12:28 am
Love the blog. I am a praise and worship leader, and I absolutely love CCM music. My roots are in Gospel and I love that too, however, being overseas in Japan, working with so many different people, it is important to bridge the gap. I have been trying to communicate this same thing to the praise teams I’ve worked with for sometime now. It has been a long time coming and I believe God meant for us all to come together.