too much top three songs on project opus

Project Opus is still rocking with new artists coming on board every day.

Here are the Top Three Songs on Project Opus from "Too Much For Me."

Top 3 Songs	Chris Carder's Too Much For Me top songs march 2006 (collected from data on project opus)
1	California Dreamer	listen	purchase
2	You Can Call On Him	listen	purchase
3	What Kind of Love	listen	purchase

be sure to check them out.

Strange and Wonderful is up as well - watch for a post with SandW's top 3 coming later this week.

t00-m0ch,
Chris

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tags: Chris Carder Music mp3 download listen project opus projectopus christopher carder Top Songs songs california dreamer

Niskey Lake: Taste of Heaven

Niskey Lake is a small body of water in the Southwest area of Atlanta, Goergia. When someone asks me where I grew up, I think of Niskey Lake. We moved around a bit while I was 'growing up', but from age 6 until I was like 12 we lived on Niskey Lake. And for me, it was like being in the land of Narnia. There were adventures everywhere and everyday. There were no wardrobes, per se, but there were woods to discover and beasts to fight off and friends to battle alongside. Yeah, it was almost like a glimpse of heaven. I wasn't Prince Caspian and the animals did not talk but there was an excitement there most children do not know these days. You may say it was almost magical.

We lived next door to the Summers family. My mom and Mary Anne Summers have been best friends since they were young children. During some very 'dry' years (financially speaking) the Summers offered their cottage for our family to use. Some would say we were poor, but in reality it was the richest childhood I could have dreamed of.

I went back a few years ago and the houses had been leveled and new homes put up....yeah, and the place looked a lot smaller than it was when I was but a youth......but I took a stone from the entrance wall that had been the drvieway entrance. I keep it as a reminder of the days gone by and of the promise of the days to come.

t00-m0ch,
Chris

christophercarder.com

tags: Atlanta Niskey Lake Narnia Prince Caspian

Music in the Blood

My dad was one of those Tom Brokav's Greatest Generation guys. He spent a tour on a ship as a Navy man during the Korean War and after he returned home he started playing the drums. He became pretty well known in the South. He played Dixieland Jazz and he could go. I remember many times as a kid helping him pack his drums in the car and watching him drive off for another gig. He was known as 'Smilin' Jack Carder'. He loved people and having a great time with them.
I don't know that he ever saw any 'action' in the Korean War, but I think he was part of those who tested special bombs in the ocean...and in that way the war killed him anyway...he was diagnosed with Leukemia when he was like 39 or 40 and died at 44 when I was a sophomore in high school. Here is a very typical picture of a guy that seemed to enjoy life moment by moment...knowing how short life really is. I guess music must be in the blood.

t00-m0ch,
Chris

christophercarder.com

tags: Tom Brokaw Greatest Generation Korean War Dixieland Jazz Leukemia

A Little Gigging History

Some friends back in the mid-80s at Smyrna First Baptist all came together to form my first 'band'. I don't even think we had a name. But soon afterward we joined in with a couple of guys from Berry College in Rome, Georgia and formed a group called 'Staircase'. We layed down three or four songs one day at some studio in Avendale Estates in Stone Mountain, Georgia. We played at churches, coffehouses, and a college or two. Later, after a few years just doing my own stuff, I came out with my first project in '92 called 'Too Much For Me'. I released it through my own record label called Too Much Records.

I also started touring with a couple of guys not too long after that....Mark Blackburn and Frank French. Mark had played with Jacob's Trouble and Frank was best known from the band Drivin'-N-Cryin', and pruducing the first Indigo Girls album. We became known as 'Carder, Blackburn and French'. Here is a photo of me and Mark. Look at that hair. You got to check out Blackburn's site. Here is a link with him singing with 70's star David Cassidy.

t00-m0ch,
Chris

christophercarder.com

tags: Stone Mountain Mark Blackburn Frank French Smyrna First Baptist Berry College Jacob's Trouble Drivin'-N-Cryin' David Cassidy

Indonesian Missions

I spent the summers of 1989, 1991, and 1993 in Manado, Indonesia on mission trips. I had my first trip in 1984 to Liberia, West Africa. I went with an organization known as World Outreach Fellowship. They merged with Pioneers in the early 1990s. On that first trip, I met a family who soon basically unofficially adopted me ... Jim and Beth Britton. They had spent 7 years in Indonesia with New Tribes Missions and had come on board WOF. I fell in love with their family and was blessed to be a part of all the teams we went on together. Jim and Beth are still on staff at Pioneers and they keep travelling over to Banda Aceh to help in the relief efforts to get that part of the world back on its feet and show the practical love of Jesus to everyone. They left again last week for a short time. This photo below was taken in 1991 while we stopped over in Bali for a couple of days on our trip back to the States. I took this photo at sunset on Kuta Beach. This is just one of the many memories of incredible sunsets and sunrises all over Indonesia, truly one of the most beautiful places on earth.

t00-m0ch,
Chris

christophercarder.com

tags: Jim and Beth Britton Pioneers Kuta Beach Bali

Pastor Rob Turner

I have a great friend name Rob Turner who lives in Kettering, Ohio. He is pastor of a church called Apex Community Church. Rob and I met one day when we were both attending The Southern Baptist Seminary in 1996. He had been a Centrifuge summer pastor that year and had met a good friend of mine named Mac Powell. Mac told Rob I was headed up to Southern and if he needed a worship leader anytime to look me up. I walked up to check a book out at the library one afternoon as classes were getting underway and there was Rob behind the desk checking out material to students. One thing led to another and we spent the next four years travelling around the country doing conferences and retreats. We had some incredible experiences. Tomorrow, he is speaking at Southern Seminary chapel services. Apex Community church is the best thing going in the Dayton, Ohio area. Check out the church. You will not be disappointed with the church starting from their humble, honest, and humorous pastor, Rob Turner.

t00-m0ch,
Chris

christophercarder.com

tags: Rob Turner Apex Apex Community Church Dayton, Ohio The Southern Baptist Seminary Lifeway Centrifuge Mac Powell

Walk the Line

Walk the Line. What a great movie. I bought the new release last week and saw it with several friends last night. A great movie about the early days of 'Rock-n-Roll' with Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Elvis, Jerry Lee (The Killer) and many more. What an honest story of the life of Cash as he struggles with drugs, music, and relationships. It makes a person want to search deeper into the things that made him tick. I would give it a five out of five stars, in my humble opinion.

t00-m0ch,
Chris

christophercarder.com

tags: Johnny Cash Walk the Line Elvis project opus

podcast: too much for me
on the opus player: too much for me

Third Day/David Crowder Concert

Went to see Third Day and The David Crowder Band last night at The Palace in Louisville, Kentucky. What a great concert. The night started off with Crowder and they rocked the house with several of his great songs, such as, 'Here is Our King', 'Undignified', and 'O Praise Him'. During intermission, Tai Anderson, Third Day's bass player showed a short video he filmed just a week prior to the Wherever You Are tour. He spent some time in Uganda and wanted to share his (and Third Day's) burden for the Children of War victims in that country. Third Day and World Vision have partnered together to get the message out to their fans on how to make a difference in Uganda. Tai expressed the overwhelming feelings we face today after the incredibly devastating time of natural disasters and the pressures of life that have dropped on our shoulders in the last 15 months. But his plea was that, even though we can feel there not much we can do to change the problems, we can make a difference in this area of helping the kids in Uganda.
Both Crowder and Third Day kept the packed Palace crowd jumping and celebrating the hope we have in what Jesus has done for us. I have never been disappointed when I have gone to a Third Day show. They are serious about their walk with Jesus. And they can rock. From Tai's low-end thumping and David Carr's drumming, to Brad Avery and Mark Lee putting the heart into the music with their lead guitar licks...you haven't experienced church like this....but that is what it is about! Mac Powell's voice and heart bring you to the throne in truth and spirit. The time was special. A wonderful worship experience. If you get a chance to go to the Wherever You Are tour, you will be glad you did. Take a friend who needs the hope Christ gives.

t00-m0ch,
Chris

christophercarder.com

found on search sight (pretty cool)

song: old man

tags: Third Day The David Crowder Band World Vision



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