Worship Leader & Christian Musician Chris Tomlin Talks Keith Green & "Oh Lord, You're Beautiful"
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2023
- The story behind the song can be as inspiring or even more inspiring than the song itself. In this Worship Sound Bite, Chris Tomlin talks about the impact that Keith Green's song "Oh Lord, You're Beautiful" had on him in the early days of his ministry. Chris grew up down the road from Keith and this song was one of his first and most favorite worship songs.
It's a true testimony to the power of sung prayer that 40 years after the passing of Keith Green, his music is still impacting some of the biggest artists and songwriters in Christian music. For any songwriter, hearing Chris Tomlin talk about the process of re-recording this classic is inspiring to say the least. Enjoy and share this with your songwriting friends as it's sure to encourage them to continue to write love song's to Jesus.
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Transcript:
"Oh, Lord, You're Beautiful" is really, it's what started this album. When the pandemic happened and kind of clo- and churches closed, most everybody was like, okay, what do we do? And then you go to church online or you... streaming. And I was like, well, this is a great chance to just really have a home church. with my girls. I have three girls and on Sunday mornings we would just gather around and this song, this is the song for this season.
"And so I taught my girls to- this- I said, Girls is this song that I used to love when I was growing up. And it's one of my favorite songs and I wanna teach it to you. And we- and when you hear a seven year old singing and
When your eyes are on this child,
Your grace abounds to me.
I've done this song every Sunday with my girls for two years, and when I went to my team and I said, I want to make a new record, I got a lot of songs, I don't know what the record is going to be, but I want to start with Oh Lord- I want to start with this recording, and you could tell the team"
was like, okay, you're starting with a song that is not yours and is, you know, has been redone so many times. I said, You know, this song has been my song, this is my song. And I- and I want this to start the record and see where everything flows from it, see where everything goes from it.
And so we're like, okay, let's do it. And, you know, obviously, you know, this song is Keith Green and Keith's Ministry is called Last Days Ministries, and it was in East Texas, where I'm from. Ten miles down the road from where I grew up was where his ministry was. This is 40 years since he died in a plane crash.
I was very young when he died. I wouldn't- I didn't know him, didn't know of him. I was just a little kid. But his impact of his songs has obviously impacted the world and impacted all of us, and this song has always stuck with me. And so we went to record it and it- just the way God lines things up, right?
He's doing all this and me in this song and then I sit down with one of the producers whose named Ben Glover. I said, Ben, I want to record "Oh Lord, You're Beautiful." He's like, are you kidding me? I was like, No. He goes, Man, the reason I'm in music is because of Keith Green. This is- it would be an honor to produce this song.
He goes, Let me get this piano player to do this. And he brings in This piano player named Gordon Mote. Gordon is blind, was blind from birth. One of the best session players in Nashville, plays on tons of massive records. Country, mostly country records and incredible heart for the Lord. Comes in and, I'll never forget, I'm sitting there and he's sitting over here in this corner.
I walk in the studio, he's kind of got his hands like this, and he's just kind of looking down. I said, Gordon, hi, my name's Chris Tomlin and it's really great to meet you. And I've known of your work. You're an incredible piano player. Thanks for playing on this record. He's like, Oh man, I love your music. I'm so honored to play on your- on your music.
I said, Well, Gordon, what I wanted- the first song I want to record, is this song called "Oh Lord, You're Beautiful." I don't know if you've ever heard it. And he's just he starts doing this. "Somebody just get me to a piano, get me to piano." And so I led him in to this piano and he said, That's one of my very favorite songs ever.
I just kind of gave him the format flow. And he said, I love this he goes, okay, he goes I don't want any, if you know, recording, you'll love this, he goes, I don't want any computers in my ears and I want any click tracks...
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well said Chris, I couldn't agree more!!
Thanks for watching!
Keith Green is really the only Christian songwriter in the past fifty years to make a deep impression on me.
100% agree! 😊
Keith was a gift to our community. Thanks for watching! 🙏🏼
He had such a passion for the Lord! His songs were truly annointed.❤
God’s blessings to you and your family ✝️☮️
Thanks for watching! 🙏🏼
Thank you fir sharing this!
Thank you for this!
Thank you for watching!
Get rid of the background music lol just let Chris talk without all the noise.
Great talk by Chris! Love the story
Thanks for watching! Here’s our latest interview with Chris: czcams.com/video/Pokcq3SuC5U/video.htmlsi=FLZSGsSRtfrDZ68s
@@TheWorshipLeader much better! No music in this interview 😂 thanks for replying!