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Excerpt from Make Note Newsletter for August 2011 (with some additions): It's done!!!
We have at long last received our new CD, “Lead Me to the Desert”.
It was delivered two weeks ago,
and we are very pleased with the outcome!
This work is the culmination of a three year process which involved countless
hours practicing, performing, recording, mixing, mastering, and then the artwork and packaging. But this work actually is
the realization of a ten year journey that Jeannie went through: hours and hours of praying, songwriting, rewriting, and more
praying and seeking God’s direction, and more writing and praying.... During that time we also weathered some unbelievable
storms, and this musical collection is a distillation of all of that. In short: a testament to God’s love and faithfulness
in hard times and in good.
Jeannie’s first CD, “Running Through Life on My Knees”, was released
in 2001. After a couple of years the band Furst Light was formed with Jeannie, myself, and our good friend Greg Ward on lead
guitar. Soon we were joined by a bass player from Oskaloosa named C.P. Uittes. C.P. was not able to stay with us, however,
and after a short time Jeannie and Greg and I were a trio again, performing together but praying for the right bass player
for our band. In 2007 Eric Coleman, a bass player from Kansas City that Jeannie and I had played with before, agreed to join
us, and we started the process of honing the songs and getting ready to record.
In November or 2008 we finally
got together with our friend Larry Miller from Lawrence, who had recorded Jeannie’s first CD. He recorded us live in
a church, but the recordings sat for about a year, during which time we underwent another personnel change: We parted ways
with Greg Ward, and started the search for another guitar player. We were joined in 2010 by Randy Seedorff of Liberty, MO,
who also happens to be the worship leader of the church that Jeannie and I attend. It was a perfect fit! We took him back
into the studio with us, and slowly, the finished CD started to take shape. We brought our children John, Jeffry and Heidi
in to the studio as well, along with our old Witness Band friend Phil Wizer on keyboards.
Besides the great work
that Larry Miller did on the CD, there are also several songs that were recorded by the Art House, a studio in Lawrence that
is run by two young men who do an amazing job. The finished CD was also mastered by Jim Barnes at the Art House. We think
you will agree: It turned out very well! If you are interested in purchasing a copy of the
CD, there are several ways in which you can do that. You can email us, write us, call us, etc.; Jeannie’s contact information
is on her website, jeanniefurst.com. We are also now on CD Baby, and you can purchase a copy there. Hopefully we will soon
also be found on iTunes! We would be happy to put this labor of love into your hands, and we hope that you will be blessed
by it.
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