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That might be confusing, but RussHutto.com is fully hosted over at RussHutto.com now.

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Thanks,
Russ

Yet another song in my 50 songs this year challenge.

Today I didn’t want to write. At all. So it felt more like an exercise back in college when my composition teacher’s would assign us something and we basically had to write it. Don’t get me wrong, once I got into it and started channeling the BeeGees I had a bunch of fun.

But ultimately this isn’t a song for worship, it isn’t gonna make me a songwriting legend, and odds are you probably won’t like it.

I will say this though, I actually do like it, and I think with the right artist, or band it has potential.

Oh and if anybody wonders why the verses don’t really rhyme…it’s because I just freestyled them. This is the rough beginnings of what could be a fun song.

Sorry for all the bg noise, I recorded again with the wrong headphones and straight into the onbaord mic of the MacBook Pro. One day I’ll actually have some equipment of my own. Until then I keep on writing.

So without further ado. Grab a glass of wine, throw a log on the fire, and put your arm around your hunny and let’s do this!

 

 I Love You: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Over the next few days RussHutto.com will be going through some changes. It’s been a process that started back before the new year, but hasn’t fully made it to completion.

My blog is self-hosted, made the switch a good long while ago and haven’t regretted it. However, the actual space I’ve been using was a little corner of web real estate of my church’s hosting neighborhood. I tried, in vain, for about 2 years to get our staffers to blog, setting up the space for each on our hosting, but I’m the only one who does.

So, I figured it was time I sprung for my own space. I used to run 2 or 3 websites of my own a few years ago. A worship blog and a band website from when I was a rock star.

It’s time to do it again…not the rock star thing, the website thing.

Thanks to human3rror, I was able to hit the ground running and to hit the ground running hard. It was such a blessing to get started using his promo code and to pay almost nothing for a year’s worth of hosting. Thanks, Jon! I will definitely pay it forward!

All that to let you know, that in the last few months, I’ve been watching my subscriber count go up. That’s exciting. If you are a current subscriber, please bear with me. I hope to keep a continuous flow of posts coming from russhutto.com, but as I make the switch there might be a few days when I disappear completely. If you wouldn’t mind and if you’ve enjoyed my journey, please stay tuned and continue to visit russhutto.com throughout the next few days/week and make sure you’re feed is the most current one.

I run my feed through feedburner so it really shouldn’t be all that difficult to make the transition.

Please make sure the feed you have for me in your reader is:

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/RussHutto

Thank you so much for blogging with me and being my online friends.

TO BE CONTINUED…

I now have 1,066 comments on russhutto.com.

Most historians point to the year 1066 AD as a turning point in Western History. The Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest are two of the most well-known historical events that changed the tide of history that year.

Most scholars point to this year as the dividing point between the Dark Ages and the Middle Ages.

Thanks to all of you who have commented the last few years, and here’s to another 1,066 comments!

Photos courtesy of Jonathan Chick of Clarus Photography.

This is what Sunday looks like at House of Joy. We worship with a ton of energy.

1-4 The Young Americans doing a step and dance routine as a transition into our Elephant In The Room series. (Today was “Pornography”). They had a show cancel and so they were going to be in the area for a few extra days. We invited them to come and do their thing at our place. Which is pretty cool because as far as I know TYA has no religious affiliation. It was obvious when we cranked up HE REIGNS, though, that there were some believers in the mix and they worshiped headlong with us. A great group of kids overall.

From the Young American’s Website:

Budget cuts have caused the systematic removal of music programs in our nation’s schools, and with them, a chance for millions of talented students to discover ways to express themselves creatively. The International Music Outreach Tours were created by The Young Americans® in 1992 to bring music back into schools, opening doors of discovery for the musical talents of young people.

The comprehensive performance workshops cover everything from vocal techniques, dance, and comedy improvisation, to stage movement, sound, lighting, and more.  Hundreds of students from 4th through 12th grade learning to work together, to respect each other’s strengths, and to discover their own potential - all through the universal language of music and dance.

After three days of intensive performance instruction it’s show time!  The Young Americans perform the first act, then to the astonishment of parents, friends, teachers and administrators the participating students perform the second act with The Young Americans.

The International Outreach Tours have touched lives in nearly all 50 states and beyond including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Ukraine, Gibraltar, Spain, Poland, Sweden and Japan.  More than 150,000 students have participated in these exciting workshops and many more are waiting for The Young Americans to visit their cities and schools.

5-8 Our AWESOME band rocking WE SHINE. Look at the guy vocalist behind me. I have no clue what he’s doing…but at least he’s doing it passionately! From this angle you don’t see our bass player or other guitar player, but they were rocking it as well.

We do everything high energy and in your face at House of Joy. I normally don’t lead from up front like that…In the last photo you can see the empty keyboard and mic stand. That’s my normal roost. But WE SHINE was so energetic I had to get out front and jump around and really connect with out people in a different way than “normal.”

You can see up on the bg screen behind us, the words to WE SHINE. Great song!

Also part of Fred McKinnon’s Sunday Setlist shindig!