Exciting news! I am now offering my 2009 release, “The Sunshine EP,” for free on NoiseTrade! Tips are welcomed but not required, of course.
Please help spread the word via Facebook, Twitter, word of mouth, etc. Thanks everyone!
http://www.noisetrade.com/jonmorrismusic
Hi, everyone. I hope this post finds you well.
Since the release of “Come to Life” in June, I have been blessed with many opportunities to travel, play quite a few shows, meet a LOT of new people, and share my songs. This CD release has been absolutely wonderful, and I am so grateful to have such a wonderful group of fans and friends who support me in this dream of mine. It has been busy few months since June, but I am grateful for each and every one of you who helped me fund the recording, have bought the EP, told a friend about my music, or come to a show.
As the winter months of November and December approach, however, I have decided to somewhat “bunk” in, taking a brief hiatus from performing shows in order to focus on writing and prepare for new goals in the new year. There are far too many half-written songs awaiting my attention and far too much activity during the holiday season for me to perform during these next two months. But I look forward to this hibernation, as I hope it will refresh my spirit and foster new songs.
During these winter months, I would ask for your prayers. Pray that I can be attentive to God’s guidance, his Word, and his voice. The only songs that mean anything at all are the ones that speak His truth, so please pray that I would be fruitful and faithful in this. Also, please pray for me and my wife as we are gearing up to move out of our apartment and enter into a whole new season in our work and personal lives.
Please continue to tell everyone you know about “Come to Life” (or gift it for Christmas!) It does my heart well to hear stories from people who found out about it from a friend and have been touched by the music.
The album is still available on iTunes here http://t.co/jwgKYeT6 , and if you are interested in purchasing physical copies as Christmas gifts, please email me using the contact form here on the website, or at jonmorrismusic at hotmail.
Be on the lookout for new shows and music after the New Year! Exciting things are coming.
Thank you all,
Jon
My new EP, Come to Life, officially released on iTunes today! Go give it a download and leave some love via a review and star rating.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/come-to-life-ep/id531005552
I’m so grateful to Jennie McKeon and Independent News for featuring me in their piece about Kickstarter. Give it a read!
I am so happy to have been featured in Pensacola’s Independent News this week for a story about my Kickstarter campaign. Click the link below and give it a read!
It is crazy to think that one week from today my wife and I will be driving to Nashville to record my first profession album. The songs have been demoed, the musicians have been booked, and the studio is waiting. I am standing on the edge of a moment which has literally been years in the making, and I cannot believe it is about to take place.
This kind of thing might naturally open that all-too-familiar door of temptation: temptation to feel some sense of pride, to somehow think that I’ve made this happen, to make it all about me. But in this past year, as this dream has started to take shape, that temptation has really felt so foreign and alien to me. Truthfully, I feel like I have been in a constant state of exasperated shock. Questions have plagued my mind. Doubts have nagged at my heart. Feelings of discouragement have made me weak in the knees. Night after night, I have felt like I’m the last person on earth who should have this kind of opportunity.
But with this barrage of contradictions and emotions swirling inside of me, in the end, I keep landing on the same truth, a solid foundation that has never changed and helps me keep my footing: the simple fact that it’s not about me.
When you, my friends and family, came through in such a big way to fund a great majority of the album expenses, I didn’t take it as a boost of my pride or ego; I felt, and continue to feel, humbled and in awe that God would be so good.
When a member of my church family places gas money in my hand to help for gas on the road, I feel it again: the undeniable goodness of God.
When I sing a song about my brokenness and God’s grace to a small crowd at a coffee-house, I feel it all around me: the goodness of God.
His goodness, not my merit, is the reason I’m making this trip next week.
I wish I could fully express my gratitude for all that you have done, but I hope that the songs that I am recording, feeble as they are, will be of some recompense to all of you who have given so freely. This is not just “my” CD that I’m making. It is yours, too. And I cannot wait for you to hear it!
I will try to post pictures and videos throughout recording week, so be sure to keep up with me on Facebook and Twitter to see the progress!
Well, it’s hard to believe that recording in Nashville is just six shorts weeks away thanks to all of my wonderful Kickstarter supporters. The CD will release toward the beginning of June, and I am also excited to announce that I will be going on tour this summer after the release to promote it!
Yes, my wife and I will be packing up in our little Honda and hitting the road at the beginning of June, traveling the east coast as far north as New York, and heading back down a little more inland.
That’s the plan, anyway…
I have been sending out e-mails and messages left and right to book some shows, but I need some more ideas and connections to help me actually start filling in the schedule.
That’s where you come in.
Below is a list of the cities/general vicinities I’d like to schedule some shows in/around. If you know of any churches, coffee houses, or small venues in or near any of the following cities, would you please let me know? Obviously, there will be no “charge” for my doing a concert; I’m just looking to play some churches and coffee houses starting out and would honestly love to have even an audience of 20 people at a time, just to share some music with and maybe sell a few CDs for gas money to the next place.You can send me an e-mail to jonmorrismusic@hotmail.com, or you can send me a message on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/jonmorrismusic)
Tallahassee, FL
Jacksonville, FL
Savannah, GA
Charleston, SC
Charlotte, NC
Washington, D.C.
New York City, NY
Asheville, NC
Nashville, TN
Atlanta, GA
Birmingham, AL
Montgomery, AL
Mobile, AL
I appreciate you all!
Thanks,
Jon
Maybe I should have written this on Thursday, but I spent some great time with my family that day-as I’m sure most of you did as well-and I didn’t really have time to post. So what I should have said Thursday, I will say today.
My Kickstarter campaign for my album reached its goal on Thursday around 4pm, and I honestly can’t think of a more fitting day for it to have come to an end than Thanksgiving. I want all of you to know how sincerely and extremely thankful I am.
I am thankful for all of you putting of with my barrage of tweets and Facebook posts.
I am thankful for all of you sharing with your family and friends about what I am doing.
I am thankful for all of you who gave toward the project with willing hearts and sacrificial love. (Believe me on this one, I know what a real sacrifice it was for some of you to give, and I am humbled and in awe that you would invest in this dream that I have felt called to see through. I am so undeserving, and I cannot thank you enough.)
As I said in the Kickstarter video, I will be going to Nashville March 19-22 to record, and I am hoping that the album will release a few months later at the beginning of the summer.
I look forward to sharing these songs with you all, and I hope that in some way they will give you hope, courage, comfort, peace, and joy, not through my words, but through the truths of God that I aspire to illuminate.
In the meantime, I will keep everyone updated about news, performances, and overall happenings that come up.
I love you all. You have my eternal gratitude.
Jon
November 24th.
That is the last day of my campaign to raise the money I need to record my new album. If I don’t reach the goal, I don’t receive any of the money pledged.
Please watch this AMAZING video to find out more:
The link to the Kickstarter page is below.