Side A: Through & Through
Written by Joel Rockey © 2008 The Mustard Room
This particular tune draws its inspiration from the analogy of God as a rock – changing yet unchanging, immovable, stable, maintaining integrity, strong, faithful – essentially all that the author is not.
The lyrical content had been bouncing around from journal to journal under the moniker ‘faithful’ for a while before finally settling down in the simple bluesy melody which they now inhabit.
Soon after, in the winter of 2006, the two were quickly married. The song was recorded, uploaded to web pages and performed during just about every live appearance.
The original two track recording was submitted for inclusion on a demo disc compiled and mastered by Evan Harris in the spring of 2008.
Side B: Home
Written by Joel Rockey © 2008 The Mustard Room
Whilst preparing for a study in the gospel of John one Sunday evening circa 2004, I picked up the ole fiddle and strummed a simple tune. Pulling lines from the text of Jesus’ teachings into a whimsical mantra, the composition’s completion came quite quickly. After playing through the tune a couple of times for the folks in our high school youth group, we all joined together in a spirit of peace and harmony. Immediately, we bought the world a Coke and segued effortlessly into chapter 15 of John’s gospel.
It didn’t take long after that for me to begin the recording process in hopes of submitting the track to the Coca-Cola Company for use in a television ad or to the parties responsible for compiling multi-disc collections with titles such as ‘Today’s Ultimate Worship Party Platinum: The Very Best of Modern Worship.’
There were talks of hiring a gospel choir and horn section to punch listeners in the gut, but all that fell through and I got no further than roping in my buddy Ryan Helvie to add some nuanced guitar picking. I finally crossed all the tees and dotted all the eyes in November of 2008.
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