Jul 12

Madden singing for RussellI remember taking my senior trip to Hilton Head Island, about 20 years ago (man I’m getting old.) Mike, Skip, Rich and I were walking around HarbourTown and came upon a crowd gathered ’round the old oak tree. There was a guy playing guitar, singing songs and entertaining kids. Here we were, almost in college, too cool for everyone there and definitely above any kind of “wholesome” entertainment. Yet, we sat there for the next hour or so laughing our butts off. Fastforward to this week. 20 years later. Family vacation. My wife, our two kids, my mom and Me. All sitting under the oak tree. Listening to…. you guessed it.

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Jul 03

I’ve never been a huge Christian Music fan. For the most part I just never really thought it had the same quality as the secular music I enjoyed. It just always sounded second rate to me. The Christian music I had listened to seemed to follow the same formula, great inspirational (almost nauseating) lyrics and if they could pull a halfway decent sound out of their, you know, then even better. Then I was introduced to Third Day.

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