George Furlow - Album Producer

I am recording the album One Life at Furball Studios in Wilkins Township in the Pittsburgh area beginning in January. We have our first round of tracking scheduled for the third weekend in January which will include drums, bass, keys, guitar and my scratch vocal as well as loops which I will have mostly finished from now until then.

I chose George Furlow to be the recording producer of this album because of his veteran experience with praise and worship music and recording. George is also located just ten minutes down the road from my house in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh so that makes hitting the studio very simple. George's bio follows (adapted from his website at www.georgefurlow.com):

George was born in the town of Grafton, WV. He moved from Grafton to Washington DC and on to Cumberland, MD and then on to Baltimore, MD. His family finally settled in Pittsburgh, PA where he has lived for the past thirty five years. George attended Duquesne University and got a B.S.M.E of Music and a Master of Music in Saxophone. Since graduation of college, George has been a band director, teacher and Music Director/Associate Pastor at Covenant Church of Pittsburgh. In 1995, he felt God's call to move in the area of full-time music ministry to share with the Body Of Christ in a broader way. Having been a music director and raised in a church that was full of worship, it was God's plan to take those kinds of talents and experience into "All Nations".

In 2001 he returned to Covenant Church Of Pittsburgh where he is once again the Music Director/ Worship Pastor serving with Bishop Garlington, Denise Graves, Clarence Grant, Alton Merrel and Toni Turner.

Musical Experience

Pittsburgh Symphony
Benedum Theatre
Integrity Music: Ron Kenoly, Paul Wilbur, Don Moen, Marty Nystrom, Bob Fitts
Maranatha! Music
Promise Keepers
Bishop Joseph L. Garlington
Israel Houghton
Eagles Wings with Rob Stearns
Three Rivers Saxophone Quartet

Equipment & Studio List:

Soprano is a Yamaha YAS 62 with a Ralph Morgan *8 Jazz and Winslow Ligature
Alto is a Selmer Mark VI (1970 Vintage) with a New York Meyer #6 M
Tenor is a Selmer Mark VI 1958 Vintage Guardala King R&B mouthpiece
Flute is a Muramatsu GX
Yamaha WX-5 Windcontroller with a Yamaha VL-70 Module
Finale software for Music Notation.
Vandoren Java #3 on Tenor and Alto. Vandoren #3 on Soprano
Sure LX Wireless system with Clip-on 98 Microphone
Sennheiser 421 for flute and sax

Furball Music Recording Studio:

Nuendo 3.0 on Mac OSX
Hammerfall Digiface
Mackie Controller
Roland M 1000 Digital Line Mixer
Mackie HR 824 Monitors
Roland Professional V-Drums® set with expandable TD-10 sound module and full-size V-Pads™.
Avalon 747 Mic Pre
Roland 5080
Yamaha EX-5
Yamaha Motif (Rack)
Yamaha P100 Keyboard


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Album Updates

Well I am going to blog the bio's for the musicians that we have put together for the One Life album. We will be recording beginning in January. I am excited to have this team of musicians and the producer to help with this project!

Also, the photoshoot went well yesterday with Abie Livesay! Thanks Abbie for your awesomeness!

One other note is that the One Life Concert will take place this coming Sunday evening from 6-730 at Riverside Community Church in Oakmont. For address or directions check out RCC website at www.riversideconnect.org.

Hope to see you there!

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Photo Shoot Tuesday

I will be having my photo shoot this Tuesday afternoon in Lawrenceville. This will be the photos for the One Life album and various promotional materials for the whole process. Please pray that I will look "good" that day :)

Seriously, please pray for creativity and a great outcome. Pictures are worth a thousand words! I am happy to say that Abie Livesay will be doing the shooting and I love the work that she has done with other clients in her portfolio.

Stay tuned for more updates it has been a busy couple of weeks and there is much to write. I will write a little each day to keep you up to speed with some of it.

Hope to see you Sunday night at my concert. Thanks!

- Dave Click Here to Read more!

One Life Concert at RCC

One Life Concert
A Night of Worship, Original Songs and Missions
Featuring Dave Longstreth and members of his band from Riverside Community Church

Press Release:

The One Life Concert will feature a night of praise and worship, original songs and missions from Dave Longstreth, Riverside Community Church's Creative Arts and Missions Pastor.

The concert will promote his upcoming album recording titled One Life and Dave will be joined by some of his Riverside worship band members. Admission is free and anyone is invited. An offering will be taken to raise funds for the One Life album and mission and a fund will be started in case those who want to give toward the project cannot give that evening.

For more information on the concert, the album, the ministry or the mission - please visit Dave's blog at www.DaveLongstreth.blogspot.com or his music site at www.DaveLongstrethMusic.com. Click Here to Read more!

New Song - "Song of Freedom"

I was inspired by a conversation that I had this morning with the wife of a dear friend from our church who had a massive heart attack this weekend. By the loving mercy of Jesus Christ and a true miracle this man gets to live with great hope for tomorrow. This couple has been coming to RCC for years and have been very encouraging to me throughout the years. Almost every Sunday Frank will come up to me after worship and encourage me with words of affirmation and love for the music that our team has put forth that week. I don't say this to brag but only to let you know how special they are to me and how much they have encouraged and supported my ministry here at RCC through the years. I was devastated on Sunday morning when I received the news that Frank had a heart attack and that the outlook was not good. I've seen and heard enough of these predicaments to know that his chances were slim at best. But then a miracle occurred - he came through and with great brain function after a longer than usual time without oxygen. Today was his first full day since the trauma and I went first thing this morning to visit with him.

When I was speaking with his wife Lynn, she encouraged me out of her own life about the freedom that we have in Jesus' name. I was blessed and knew that I had to write a song about this today while it was still so fresh on my heart. I offer this song of freedom to all who like me and like my dear friends - need the freedom that can only be found through the loving mercy and blood of Jesus Christ. This is a song of freedom, which I think will be a part of my upcoming album, "One Life" which you can read more about on my blog at www.davelongstreth.blogspot.com. Thank you!

Song of Freedom

This is our song of freedom
This is our song of joy
This is our song of freedom
This is our song of joy

No more let sin or sorrow
No more the enemy prevail
Christ has redeemed us forever
By His own blood we are free

We have been called to worship
To love, honor and obey
We have been called to go out
Releasing the prisoners today

One life to live, one life to give
One life, one chance to make a difference
One God, one Christ, one blood
One call, one church, one life

This is our song of freedom
This is our song of joy
This is our song of freedom
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Donations through ChipIn

If you are interested in donating to the album One Life please follow the link in the widget below - for more information please read my previous post here. You can also visit my chipin page at http://davelongstrethmusic.chipin.com.

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Time to Begin Raising Funds

Well I have a final price for the album that I hope to have released in Spring 2010! The album will be recorded locally at Furball Studio with an executive producer that has been featured on over 10 Hosanna/Integrity worship albums. He is an accomplished musician and worship leader and knows the music business especially in the genres of Christian music and Praise and Worship.

I will be recording with hired studio musicians so that I save time & money in the studio and have a full quality project that can be used to promote this ministry and message of The One Life Project - changing the world one life at a time! The project will be a full length album with full band instrumentation and multiple vocal tracks. It will be mastered at a studio in Nashville, TN and packaged in earth-friendly ecowallets.

A portion of the proceeds from this album will go directly to The One Life Project for the purposes of child sponsorship in South East Asia and life-saving heart surgeries in Tibet for children suffering from congenital heart disease. These projects are through the non-profit Christian organization South East Asia Prayer Center www.seapc.us.

I hope to raise a total of $8,000 in donations and album support to pay for the project and then additionally raise tour support for a South East Asia tour in the summer of 2010. On this tour I will be giving away the CDs to people in some of the poorer countries (i.e., Cambodia, parts of Thailand, etc.) and selling the album elsewhere. I have set the $8,000 goal to include the following support - $4,000 in donations and $4,000 in no-interest loans to be paid back to the investors from the sales of the first 400 CDs.

Please join me in prayer because this goal is huge to a person like me. I make an honest living but I am not well-to-do and have a young family to support in the early years of my career. But I have a dream and have waited for ten years to begin this album. I believe now more than ever that this is the time to realize this dream and make it happen. At the same time I have a call on my life to make a difference in our world through this one life that has been given to me - I want to use it to change another life and another and another...

The message of this album is all about using the gift of life that we've been given to change another life significantly. It is about both being and doing. It is about worship - a true and full definition of worship - to give glory to our Creator through the words, actions and thoughts of our lives.

Details on the fund-raising will be forthcoming. I will be collecting the funds through a PayPal account and paying the costs of the CD production directly from that account. I am sorry that I cannot offer tax-deductible donations but I am not a non-profit organization. I will be using an online fund-raising website called www.chipin.com.

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Current Chart Scores for My Music on Reverb Nation

My website, www.DaveLongstrethMusic.com, is hosted at Reverb Nation, which is a website started in 2006 that focuses on the independent music industry. If you have not had a chance to check out my website, please take some time to do so...

Everytime someone visits my website, plays my songs, signs up to be a fan or puts a banner/player widget on their site - I get a higher band equity score. Now this can be to/from my website, facebook, myspace or blog! The higher my band equity score rises the higher I go on the Reverb Nation charts.

Currently I was surprised to see these chart scores for my genre of music (Christian/Gospel):

National Christian/Gospel Charts #69
Regional Christian/Gospel Charts #2
Regional Charts (all genres combined) #52

Wow and thank you!! Please keep checking in with me on the blog, leave some feedback and comments because I need your prayers and encouragement these next few months as I take on the huge undertaking of recording my first solo album with all originals. And thank you so much for your support!!

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