Take my hand

To write a blog about what Fred Hammond's music and ministry has meant to me would take a year's worth of blog entries...

Here's one of his newest songs which I'm in love with.

Top 10

After you look over the list, you'll notice a few things.

1. I'm inspired by a wide variety of music
2. There's probably a good number or artists you have never heard of
3. There is no "explicit" music on here

Here are my 10 favorite & most influential songs

10. Rich Mullins - Elijah



9. 4th Avenue Jones' - Take Me Away

8. Fred Hammond - When The Spirit Of The Lord

7. Christopher Cross - Back Of My Mind

6. Anthony Hamilton - The Truth



5. Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror

4. Stevie Wonder - Ribbon In The Sky



3. dc Talk - In The Light

2. Fred Hammond - Please Don't Pass Me By



1. Commissioned - Find Myself In You

20-10

I'm very excited about this year. I am excited about completing the District Connection project and am still working on getting its message heard. It has been getting great response thus far and its message is reaching people in all sorts of situations, which is my main goal for it.

I'm also excited about beginning to work on my solo music. I have a LOT of music that I've collected over the years and am thrilled about being able to finally write to it and record it. I will definitely keep everyone posted and promise this will be the best music I have ever done!

When I started this blog, my intent was to do much more than just share - or plug - my music, but to let my readers know more about the person behind the music. One way to do that is to give a list of my favorite 10 songs of all time. However, making a list for this turned out to be much more difficult than I thought it would be. So I ended up making a list of 20. While the top 10 will have explanations for each song, I will list 10 others as an "honorable mention".

I did not include any "Praise and Worship songs". They will have a seperate list.

20. Linkin Park - In The End

19. 4th Ave. Jones' - U Know

18. Take 6 - Sunshine

17. Michael English - Mary, Did You Know?

16. Marvin Gaye - God Is Love

15. dc Talk - Jesus Freak

14. Kirk Franklin - Imagine Me

13. Gospel Gangstaz - Change

12. Anthony Hamilton - Pass Me Over

11. Stevie Wonder - All I Do

If you haven't heard any of these, I highly recommend looking them up. Stay tuned for the Top 10 next week...

God bless,
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95 North

My solo song off the District Connection CD

Monumental is here!!!

District Connection's MONUMENTAL is available

On iTunes

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/monumental/id340735787

CB Baby

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/districtconnection

District Connection is

Shamel Shiloh - MattyB - seanISrael

with appearances by

Cy - Andale' - Chalwell - Frontline Movement - PROlifik - Michael Trotter Jr.

and production by

Tony Stone - Juice 2020 - Mister KA - Rugged Cross - J Fuzion

http://www.myspace.com/districtconnection

NEW MUSIC!!!

Helping Worship Leaders Lead Well

My little brother, Jamie is the contemporary worship leader at The Falls Church. He has started a page which is extremely helpful to anyone involved with leading worship in any way.

http://worthilymagnify.com/

Round and round we goooo...

Sarah and I had a much needed vacation. First off, we had to see the family in South FL.

My cousin, Kelly, had twin girls last year and we finally got to meet them!

Sarah is incredible with babys and is going to be a great mom one day. Maybe in a few years?...

I loved watching my grandma "Nonnie" in action, feeding Kayla...

Kayla and Braelyn have me wrapped around their finger!

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Now, off to the cruise....

Elegant night 1

Elegant night 2

Here we are in Belize, one of the 3 stops our boat made

Enjoying our last night, before packing everything back up

So greatful to take some time off and see my incredible family and have an incredible trip with my incredible wife. Now it's back to the grind!

-It's Here!-

The first single off the forthcoming "Monumental" project by DISTRICT CONNECTION

http://www.myspace.com/districtconnection

Finally

05-05-2009

New Music by

"DC - District Connection"

Shamel Shiloh, MattyB, seanISrael

www.myspace.com/districtconnection