Our Sunday Shoes

The initial seeds for this CD project began during the Sunday morning pre-service warm-ups. After the service music was reviewed and while the music director was in the choir room rehearsing the praise chorus, the musician’s of the rhythm section would create music. Someone would start playing and everyone else would join in. We enjoyed a fellowship of music and each other’s creativity.

The drummer of the rhythm section, Mike Lefebvre, hurt his back. It was my intention to take the rhythm section to a recording studio and capture the creativity of the rhythm section once Mike’s back had healed. Unfortunately, Mike’s back was a symptom of a greater problem, cancer. With Mike’s passing I mourned the loss of a friend and the CD project. Mike was very talented musician and a key member of the rhythm section. The CD project was put on hold and would have been abandoned if not for a chance meeting with Brantley Smith. Our paths crossed when the secular band I was performing with was scheduled to play a wedding reception and the drummer for the band was unavailable. Brantley Smith was asked to fill in. I immediately felt a musical connection with the way Brantley played drums. I invited Brantley to participate in the CD project and he accepted. At our first rehearsal for the project, John and I started jamming and Brantley just joined in. It felt like a pre-service warm-up.