CHRIS TOMLIN: WHITE FLAG
FRED McNAUGHTON – One of the top questions we receive at WJTL is, “What was the name of that song you played yesterday at 8:05?” Followed closely by, “I’ve heard a new song a couple of times now and it has the words ‘Love’ and ‘Jesus’ in it. Can you tell me the title and who sings it?”
Now when you go to the playlist page at WJTL.com you can search by artist, songtitle, or even by day and time period you may have heard a song.
Do a search in the songtitle cell for ‘Grace’ or ‘Love’. You can even search by partial words. Or if you heard a song yesterday morning you can do a search between 6am and 11am yesterday (for instance) and find the song you’re looking for. Want to know how many time Chris Tomlin as been played recently? You can do that too with the new search favor. Check it out and put it through it’s paces. We hope it helps you find what you are looking for!
EDDIE DANIELS – I’m writing this blog from my hotel room after Day 3 of Creation 2010. The Creation Festival is a yearly music festival nestled in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania. The easiest way to describe it is to call it the “Christian Woodstock.” The radio station I work for goes up each year, we set up inside a trailer, and we try to get as many of the performing artists to pop in for an interview as possible. I’m always in charge of filming the interviews and then I spend the next few weeks at work editing them down and posting them on the station’s YouTube page.
This year we did something a little different. For those of you who don’t know, I enjoy drawing doodles. This year I doodled all of the artists appearing at the 4-day festival (43 of them in all). We compiled the black-and-white drawings into a collection we called the Creation Coloring book. Then, we brought the book with us and when the artists came through for their interview, we had them color and autograph their page in the coloring book. We’ll be posting the book on eBay and donating all the money received from the auction to Compassion International.
I gotta tell you, it’s been a blast so far. Not only has it been fun seeing the artists react to their doodle, but it’s also been fun hanging out with them for a few minutes. I’ve captured some really cool moments on video so far, and we still have one more day to go.
Here’s a brief rundown of some highlights the first few days:
There was more, but…well…I’ll let you see for yourselves. Starting next week I’ll begin posting the videos of our time at Creation so you can see some of it for yourself. Unfortunately we weren’t able to catch up with the Newsboys or TobyMac or our old pal Trevor from Thousand Foot Krutch, but we’re having a good time.
When you see some of the videos, you’ll get what I’m talking about. Until then…well…here’s the David Crowder video from 2007 I mentioned earlier. The one where he yells at the kid with JIMMY on his shirt. Still cracks me up.