Note from John Mark: In keeping with my theme of resurrection, today I’m posting commentary of my song “Dress Us Up” by Dr. John Hurtgen of Campbellsville University. I love how Dr....
Note fromJohn Mark: This week I’ve ask some close friends to comment on the theology of my “resurrection songs”. Today I’m posting comments by someone who may be my big...
A note from John Mark: At the end of the day, I’m a songwriter who dabbles in theology. I don’t sing about Jesus because I want to spread a message. I don’t sing about Jesus becau...
With Easter almost upon us, I’ve decided to re-post this line by line commentary on Death In His Grave that I wrote about about a year ago. I hope you all enjoy it / re-enjoy it.  ...
You would think filming a song in NYC would be easy as falling off a log but it was actually one of the more challenging shoots. First of all, New York is busy, loud, and there are people everywhere....
The new album comes out on Tuesday, Nov 1! I’m obviously stoked all the way around but I’m also excited to share the iTunes LP with you guys. This will be a somewhat deluxe version of t...
We filmed this on a cloudy day in CO. The song is basically a contemplation of psalm 24 that was born from several spontanious live jams at the end of skeleton bones. If you look behind me you can se...
Originally Stephen (my brother-in-law) had this great idea to find an old suitcase and beat on it with a mallet like a kick drum. We tried this in a parking garage downtown, which sounded phenomenal...
We drove down form Seattle the night before and I think we checked into the hotel at about 4 AM. We had to check out around noon and the rest of the crew went to tour the NIke facilities, so ...
If you’ve ever taken a stroll down Hollywood Blvd, you know that the sidewalks are frequented by almost every type of person you can imagine (and then some), including the kind who look as thou...
We filmed this at Kerry Park, kind of a famous Seattle overlook. So even late that night there was still a good bit of foot traffic. This can be good or bad. Good because you have an audience or bad&...
To write “authentic” sounding songs, I think one must be intentionally unintentional, because in order to sound “authentic” you might have to allow yourself to be “aut...
My buddy Jason Windsor just tweeted this and I loved it so much I decided to make it a blog: “You’re addicted to inspiration. You consume it but do nothing. You’ve been inspired eno...
As you’ve noticed, I haven’t spent a lot of time here at the Promenade blog. This is for several reasons. 1. Twitter: Too often I realize that out of 100 words there may be only one good sentence. So...
One of these will be a tour print we’ll be selling on the road for the next couple of weeks out west. Which one should it be? The Organ or the Trees?
It appeared to be a promising Spring for new music form bands that have been past favorites. Fleet Foxes, My Morning Jacket, and Death Cab For Cutie all put out albums. Bon Iver’s new one has...
Here’s a chord chart: deathinhisgrave-lead Due to the overwhelming response to my commentary on the song “Death In His Grave”, I’ve decided to post this little how-to video wi...
“Death in his grave” is loosely inspired by Steve Turners Poem “The Morning That Death Was Killed” and the folk song “Jesse James”. “Jesse James” was originally recorded in 1924 by Basco...
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I really enjoyed this post from Donald Miller‘s blog so i decided to re-post it. I hope it makes you think. Is Church Life Stifling Your Creativity? (by Donald Miller) When Solomon wrote Song ...
We are currently on break from our Mighty Raucous Evening tour and I wanted to take a second to recap. By far, this tour has been my favorite we’ve ever done. Many of these shows would be in o...
Here’s another sweet video from my friends Jonathan and Melisa Helser.
“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.” — Flannery O’Con...
These guys are playing here in town next month at the Visulite Theatre.
These are the last of the special vinyl records I sold on the road last year. This may be your last chance to get one. There are 3 of them, each with songs from “The Medicine” and R...
Tonight some friends stopped by GAT3 studios here in Charlotte where our record is coming swiftly to a close. They came by to sing. Beautiful voices. It felt like Christmas. GAT3 has been an amazin...
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