Music by James W. Knox and Friends
All of us know what it costs to purchase a quality CD.
We also know that you can go to the store, buy a blank CD for less than a dollar and copy someone else’s work.
To make a good musical or voice recording one must have expensive sound equipment or pay a goodly sum for studio time. One should properly compensate the musicians for their labor. One must devote much time and expense to the purchase and care of the musical instruments. One must meet the cost of replicating or duplicating the product. One must pay the price for the packaging, shipping and postage. We have done this for you.
When an artist invests thousands of dollars in a music project and someone buys one copy and then makes fifty copies for all their friends and church mates, this leaves the people who did the work and produced the record with fifty copies in a warehouse which they could have sold – not to make a profit, but to recoup part of the cost of producing something for others to enjoy.
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Desert Of The Sea
This collection of songs was recorded for the purpose of witnessing to my childhood and school days pals. I was saved the winter following my high school graduation. It had been many years since I had last seen and witnessed to most of the old crowd and I wanted very much to let them know that the choice I had made to follow Jesus had been the right one. I sought to testify to them that the path I had taken had been blessed indeed. These songs were chosen from those I had written because they best told the tale of the life I had left them to pursue.
The Desert of the Sea was recorded at Slip Shot Studios in Homer City, Pennsylvania. It was mastered by Bill Citeroni who produced the work along with Ed Billock. Ed played guitar and sang harmonies on the record as did Charlie McEnytre. Charlie also played his harmonica and Bill put down some keyboard tracks. My wife, Lilian can also be heard on harmonies.
The style of the album is very simple. These are folk tunes with strong melodies.
All That Remains
For our second CD we tried to expand the sound. Ed and Charlie were back with their guitars. Lilian did some work with her mandolin. Stephanie Novakovic lent hear considerable talents on the keyboards. Bryan Reese added some fine bass lines and Wendy Smith joined the girls on harmonies.
As it turned out, we tried to do more than our limited time in the studio allowed. The results were some very good songs, and some which were obviously left in various stages of completion.
Ed Billock recorded and produced the record in beautiful Shaelocta, Pennsylvania over five long, cold and snowy days in February, 2002.
This project was aimed at Christians. We sought to use songs from my collection that would edify and uplift them while magnifying the Lord Jesus.
Prisoners Of Hope
In 2003 we set to work on this CD. A number of things were happening at this time that were crushing my spirit. Our church experienced over twenty deaths (members or immediate family of members) in two years. I had contracted a viral infection in my lungs and breathing was difficult and preaching was next to impossible.
Out of this came a collection of songs about the longing for heaven. Eleven of the thirteen songs have reference to the believer’s desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
I recorded this collection over several months in DeLand, Florida and then Ed Billock added his excellent touches and mixed the final product. We tried to expand the vocal and musical sounds on this record and saving a couple of glitches (one minor, one major) came up with an excellent album.
The intent behind this collection was to fill the hearts and minds of God’s people with many differing views of their blessed hope.
In The Beginning Was The Word
The John To Music Project - Volumes 1 & 2
This is a collection of songs setting forth a word-for-word musical rendering of the first six chapters of the book of John. These are fragments of songs I never finished, tunes that came to my heart to which I never put lyrics, and traditional melodies. I put this together during the fall of 2005.
The following spring we recorded these songs in a very sparse style so that the words would have the predominant place. The recordings were then mastered by Chris Jackson in July and August of 2006.
The purpose behind this project is to enable the child of God to use melody and the meter to commit this grand portion of God’s word to memory while singing in their hearts with grace to the Lord.
