10.30.2007

Back from DownEast Maine

I just returned from DownEast Maine a couple of weeks ago. You know.... blueberries, moose and Bar Harbor. Had a blast with the whole family. The Head of the River Baptist Church flew us all up and showed how gracious the Maine people are, once again. We had the opportunity to sing at two coffeehouses and two churches on the short trip. It is always such a blessing to be with all of them. Can't wait to do it again....God willing, of course.

Here is a video of the song 'Mile of Sunshine Boulevard' captured in July while at a coffeehouse in Louisville, KY. I played with a band named Mile7. If you get a chance, check them out. They are hot in this area, up-n-coming with great hearts and music to match. Well, here is the video.....





t00-m0ch,
Chris

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10.14.2007

Chris Carder's Swicki Search



Be Sure to try Chris Carder's Swicki Search: Carderville Dependent Artists where your choices, votes, and searches help form a "search community" shaped around the fans, family, friends, and favorite artists.

It's good clean fun for the whole family :-) - at the very least it's a great way to find things online with a community powered search Swicki (search wiki) build by and for Chris Carder fans.

http://christophercarder.com/dependent.html

t00-m0ch,
Chris

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9.17.2007

Chris Carder Sings "Double Cure"



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This is a song by a guy name Bill Mallonee called Double Cure. I have loved this song for many years.

I saw Mallonee's group 'The Vigilantes of Love', only one time....but had followed VOL many years before.

'Double Cure' is up there on my top list of all time songs. There is a lot of passion in the lyrics and music. The struggle of walking your talk, overcoming the life of a hipocrite, being the man of God I am suppose to be....are all addressed to me in this simple but powerful song. If you get a chance, find Mallonee somewhere in concert.....maybe he will play it for you.

This video was captured on a little Sony camera at Forest Park Community Church in Jeffersontown, KY, back in July. Hope you enjoy it. Give me a shout if you do!

t00-m0ch,
Chris

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8.01.2007

Trust up on Fan Faves at Indieheaven.com

I have put my best song up at Indieheaven.com on their Fan Faves charts. Check out the radio version of the title track of the CD Trust and vote for the song. You just click the banner below, go to Fan Faves and find TRUST. You will have to scroll down a ways as it has just been added to the charts. You can vote once a day and that is all. It is sort of like voting at American Idol.


Click the banner, go to Fan Faves and give 5 Stars for TRUST!

IH is dedicated to exposing quality unsigned (Indie) Christian artists. It is a great time to be an indie artist. But exposure always depends on a fan base. So, click over and vote for Trust! And check out some other artists while you are there. Three of my favorites are Mile7, Charis and the Dustin Burke Band.


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Chris

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7.06.2007

Indie Christian Artist Chris Carder on Last.fm

Find Chris Carder at Last.fm

If you want to listen to me and other indie christian artists - then visit this page and click on my song: Shoebox

All Star Cast Lends Hand in Chris Carder's Trust

http://www.last.fm/music/Chris+Carder
http://www.last.fm/tag/indie+christian/artists
http://www.last.fm/user/Carderco/journal/2007/06/28/462176/


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Chris

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7.04.2007

8 Chris Carder Songs














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7.03.2007

Trust is now available at CD Baby

Trust is now available at CD Baby

click the baby's nose to find out more...


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Chris

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7.02.2007

YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2007 when...


YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2007 when...

1. You accidentally enter your PIN on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that
they don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if
anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't even have
the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )

12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing (or you're not reading this and yet still nodding and laughing).

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to send this post to.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on
this list.

16. This is actually the 16th time you've seen this list and you read it again.

17. You realize that this stopped being funny after number 3 and yet you still will read the next one.

18. See, I told you that you'd read this one (and probably the next two if you're not careful).

19. You begin tilting your head sideways to frown :-(

20. You know better but you're going to click this link and waste more time taking a very hard IQ Quiz.

21. You're going to accept a "Thank You for Visiting My Blog" note from me, and I hope you know that I really mean it,

Thanks for reading my blog today. Come back anytime.



t00-m0ch,
Chris

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6.28.2007

My Celebrity Look Alikes?



Saddam???!!! For that matter any of them, I don't see it!!! Do you?

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6.27.2007

Chris Carder Popularity Curve (BlogScope)





Hmmm, We've got to get those numbers up! You can help: Google Chris Carder which might be worth the effort as new stuff is coming out ... Even I do not know exactly the day and the hour when it will appear online or in Google Search Results. Plus, maybe this little chart will change with your help :-)

t00-m0ch,
Chris

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6.25.2007

20 Links from Chris Carder ... maybe more

Here's a list of links from Chris Carder.

But first, if you ever google, msn, or yahoo chris carder you'll notice one of the paid ads almost always associated with my name. as of yet, this link does not have any Chris Carder Music, thus a warning label is in order:



  1. Carderville Dependent Artists (a swicki - a search community)
  2. You Can get Trust Now Online at indieheaven.com (be sure to click fan favs n vote for me)
  3. Help Chris Climb the Charts Click (direct fan favs link from indieheaven)
  4. Chris Carder Top Music Today (see me chart on Project Opus)
  5. Get Your Fan Face On! (it's easy to do - just follow the link)
  6. Photos (currently featuring the 'Trust Sessions' with mac powell, brad avery, david carr (all of third day), dave clo, scott klopfenstein, shawn lewis, pat malone, etc.,)
  7. theSpiritradio (check it out)
  8. Guestbook (stop by and sign my lonely guestbook)
  9. Too Much Records (the little shop of carder's is up and running ... improvements coming)
  10. Get the Chris Carder Newsletter (and stay up to date on music, news, charts, new releases, and deals coming out all the time)
  11. Last.fm (there are two chris carders on last.fm ... if you're a last.fm'er ... list me, share me, widget me, scrobble me, and above all enjoy)
  12. CD-Baby (so many have wanted to get Trust on CD - here's one way)
  13. Order Trust by Mail (some people don't trust the net ... gotcha covered ... you can order by regular mail if you wish)
  14. Shoutlife (yep, check it out ... a christian spaces kinda place)
  15. Myspace (yes, of course - it's mine all mine ... myspace/chriscardersmusic)
  16. Two Wrongs on Odeo (star me ... star me ... star me)
  17. Music Search Engine (no results ... anyone wanna help me with that?)
  18. Chris Carder Concerts (book 'em, er book me)
  19. More CC Links (yep, it's not updated yet ... but plenty of good links)
  20. Biography: The Chris Carder Story (well, at least you can see some of my musical influences ... which I'll list below for you:
Chris Carder's Musical Influences: Third Day, Stephen Curtis Chapman, Bill Mallonee and the Vigilantes of Love, John Cougar Mellencamp, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sting, Michael Jackson, James Taylor, Russ Taff, Johnny Cash, Dan Fogelberg, Eagles, Keith Green, and many more.

More than 20 links if you count them all ... check them out. Comment if you find something cool not listed here.

Bonus Link: Subscribe to A Day in Life by Email

t00-m0ch,
Chris

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6.12.2007

Old Hymn used at Forest Park Community Church

This past Sunday at Forest Park Community Church we used my arrangement of 'O For a Thousand Tongues'. It was a great gift to come up with the arrangement. I remember praying that God would give me a special anointing to find some great music for a song. I had been reading through some hymns from a book my pastor let me read....after I came up with the music, I found the book opened to Charles Wesley's monumental hymn. I put the words to the music just to get a great melody....hoping to change the words later.....but the words fit so well....well....they stuck.

O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
O for a thousand tongues to sing
my great Redeemer’s praise
The glories of my God and King,
the triumphs of His grace
Chorus:
O for a thousand tongues,
for a thousand tongues
To sing of Your great name.
O for a thousand tongues,
for a thousand tongues
To sing of Your great name.
Verse 2:
Jesus the name that calms my fears,
that bids my sorrows cease
It’s music in this sinner’s ears,
it’s life and health and peace.
Bridge:
He breaks the power of cancelled sin,
He sets the prisoner free
His blood can make the foulest clean,
His blood availed for me
For me, His blood availed for me,
His blood availed for me,
His blood availed for me
© Public Domain. Words by Charles Wesley.
© 2006 Too Much Records. Music by Chris Carder.

t00-m0ch,
Chris

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6.09.2007

Mile of Sunshine Boulevard at Indieheaven.com

I have Mile of Sunshine Boulevard up at Indieheaven.com (IH). It would be great if you would take a few seconds and vote for the song on Indieheaven's Fan Fave page. Just click the banner below and it will take you IH's home page. Currently Mile of Sunshine Boulevard is at #3! You vote by just dragging over the stars next to the song. Click on the song and give it a listen. Then, after you have voted, click on my name (which will take you to my IH page and listen/vote for all my songs!
Mile of Sunshine Boulevard is a song of the abundant life we find in Christ! Yes, here on the earth now....and yet we greatly anticipate the time when we will be with Him in heaven! I wrote it with a dear friend, Frank French. Here are the lyrics.....

Mile of Sunshine Boulevard
Travelling down the Mile of Sunshine Boulevard
Seeing things I never dreamed I see
Comin’ round a bend, I lean into the wind,
Finding new life with every breath I breathe.

Never believed it could get any better than this,
But this is really only a glimpse
When the road is done and I’m finally home.
Well I will shout and I will sing
I will dance to the King of Kings
And I will rejoice to be travelling down
The Mile of Sunshine Boulevard.

Ya better watch on the Mile of Sunshine Boulevard,
There are those who want to take you out.
Just keep lookin’ straight ahead,
You will never be misled,
Keep lovin’ the Lord and the road He takes you down.


click the banner, go to Fan Faves and vote for 'Mile of Sunshine Boulevard'!

t00-m0ch,
Chris

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5.21.2007

Carder in the top 25!

#22 this morning!


Awesome. We have broken into the top 25! You guys are awesome. It will take a miracle to get to the top ten, but that is my heart for this song. I appreciate your sincere help. Keep voting please. Keep sending it to your friends, please. And keep asking them to vote and pass it on to their friends! It all will help. Just click the banner to go to the IH home page.
click the banner then go to Fan Faves to vote for Trust (currently #22)
After voting, click my name by the song, and listen and vote for all the songs on the Trust CD.


God bless! THANK YOU!!!

t00 m0ch,
Chris

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5.15.2007

Me Me Me - a Chris Carder Playlist

The following collection of tunes in this playlist - are some of my own. The title doesn't really mean, "Me Me Me - it's all about Me!" But, you do kinda feel that way when posting your own tunes. Think of it as the opera singer on Bugs Bunny warming up, "me me me meeeee!"

Enjoy the tunes ... Go! (A Day in Life) is presented here followed by Thief - which is the way the songs were intended to be heard (Thus why thief is such a short song - it's a coda to Go! and really the whole album, "Too Much for Me."











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4.03.2007

Indieheaven.com

If you get a chance go to Indieheaven.com and search for my music....but more importantly go listen to a lot of the new independent Christian artists you can find at the site!


This will take you to the main page at IH.


or go straight to my page and vote for some songs! Listen to 'Shoebox' everyday!!!!


t00-m0ch,
Chris

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CIA Summit 2007 in Franklin, Tennessee

Wow! I just spent the weekend at the CIA Summit conference in Franklin, TN. One of the best weekends I have had in a long time. The event is put on by Indieheaven.com and they sponsored the most professional conference I have ever been to as an independent artist. They had the top professionals in the fields teaching us how to get the music and message out to the world.....but it felt more like a huge family reunion with the most amazing times of worship and teachings. Keith Mohr started IH many years ago, but I have just heard of it in February and am so blessed to be a small part of it. I can not wait to get to another Summit......but I don't know how it could be any better than this years. We were led in worship on Friday morning by Bread of Stone....they were great. The day was packed with speakers and panels....then the night was topped of with a talk from Margaret Becker. Saturday the worship was led by The Dustin Burke Band and that night ended with Shaun Groves teaching us how to walk in integrity. Each night was filled with bands playing to close out the evenings....I was sorry to have to go home. What a great time.

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Chris

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3.10.2007

On meeting the great Pat Day

What a blessing it was to go meet Pat Day last Saturday morning. He is internationally known for his championship horse racing for many, many years. He is the most successful jockey of all time. Pat was speaking at a prayer breakfast in Louisville, Kentucky. Afterwards, while sporting my UGA shirt I went down to give him a Trust CD and asked him for a photo. What a way to kick-off March Madness!

He is a gracious man and has a powerful testimony of how our Creator God moves. If you ever get a chance to hear him share, then make an effort to get there.

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Chris

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2.27.2007

Song by Song: Wise Thing To Do

Wise Thing To Do
from: Strange and Wonderful (download here)

About this song... I came up with this song while driving home from church one night. I just started whistling the tune and when I got home wrote the chords down. The lyrics came from just the divisive world we live in which has infiltrated the church. James epistle describes the tensions between believers even in the early church. But we are also told to forgive....up to 70 X 7....and that's a lot of forgiving.

lyrics:
Wise Thing To Do

I've got my own agenda, you've got yours,
We just don't see eye to eye.
I didn't mean to cut, did not mean to hurt you,
You gotta know I hate to hear you cry.

We can leave this
We can put it all behind.
You gotta know it's the wise thing to do.
We can forgive this
And just move along,
Darling, it's the wise thing to do.

Wear your hair up, baby, put it in a tail,
I don't really mind what you do.
Sprinkle or dunk or maybe,
Burn me from above,
I'm only searching for the truth.

We can leave this
We can put it all behind.
You gotta know it's the wise thing to do.
We can forgive this,
And just move along,
Maybe it's the wise thing to do.

Didn't He tell us to love one another?
Didn't He tell us now?
Didn't He show us how?

© 1996 Too Much Records. Written by Chris Carder.

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Chris

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2.26.2007

My Top Five Favorite Artists of 2006

My top 5 music artists from last year (2006) are as follows:

1. Third Day: I really like their song on the Christmas Offerings called 'Born in Bethlehem'.

2. Leeland: what impresses me about this young band is that Leeland himself is so young and I feel a bit of Keith Green in his heart. You need to check out their Sound of Melodies project.

3. Casting Crowns: I love how the song, Lifesong' the title cut of Lifesong, was easy to use in worship when my pastor went through a series of sermons in James.

4. Mark Roach: I got the chance to use his song 'You Are' several times last year.

5. Keith Green: Since I mentioned him before....Green changed Christian music with his passion and heart for God. He changed me. Check out many of his CDs at Amazon.com.
t00-m0ch,
Chris

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song: You Came Along and Shoebox

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2.21.2007

Bill Mallonee and The Vigilantes of Love

I have always loved the gutty sound of Mallonee and V.O.L. He would never need any help finding his site....but just go and check him out. He is from Athens, Georgia...home of the Dawgs! I would love to meet him one day. You can find his website here.

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Rob Turner blog

Hey if you get the chance go check out my friend's, Rob Turner, blog. Rob is Lead Pastor at Apex Community Church in Dayton, Ohio. If you live in the area go check out the church.

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2.20.2007

Song by Song: You Came Along

You Came Along
from: TRUST (mp3 sample)

About this song...

You Came Along was driven by the remembrance of how life was without Christ. Things in my life were pointless, hopeless, empty. I began to get involved in a youth ministry, the year after I graduated, at First Baptist Church of Smyrna, GA. I saw a committment to God and each other I have yet to see again in a youth group. As I look back on it, I remember that Jesus said 'They will know Me by your love." I gave my likfe to Jesus in the Spring while the youth had a one night revival at a local church. I got saved, born again, or whatever you may want to call it. I exchanged a pointless life for one with direction. Jesus lifted the weight I carried and freed me. I will not forget that day.

You Came Along reflects that moment in a person's life when they surrender to The Creator! If you get a chance request the song for me down below. I would really...really appreciate it. God bless.

lyrics:
Thought I was fine and I knew all the answers
Sure that I was doing everything right
You came and opened my eyes to a different light

Just like a fool taking all things for granted
Living my life thinking I had it all
Didn’t know I was so wrong till I heard You call

You came along and You wanted to save me
It was all wrong but You made it all right
Gave me a hope that I needed but never had known
Didn’t know love until You came along

I was a ship in a storm on the ocean
Lost and not knowing which way I should go
You shined Your light in the dark and then led me home.

© 2001 Too Much Records.
Written by Mac Powell and Chris Carder.


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You Came Along on theSpiritradio.com (request it for airplay here or here)

Get TRUST here

t00-m0ch,
Chris

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2.14.2007

Search Me, O God... Psalm 139 an old school song

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Psalm 139:23-24
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23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts! [3]
24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting! [4] [psalm 139 esv]
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Pslam 139... as stated before, is one of my favorites. David has spilled his guts before the Lord and then tells God how he 'hates' those who hate God...Here it these last two verses of this chapter he reaches inside once more and asked God to search him.....because King David knows that our heart is deceptively evil. His own heart. I can relate to him here. How can I praise God with my voice and later on damage others with the same tongue, the same heart. So, examine me Doctor Jesus and heal me as well! Seems pretty appropriate here on Valentine's Day. But please no massacre.


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Chris

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