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Artist: Wishes Were Fishes Song: Blood Of The Lamb CD: Listen Genre: blues Label:Independent Homepage
ADDING TO BLUES!
Wishes Were Fishes, a band based out of both Fresno and Monterey, CA, has created a style all their own. Mixing rock, reggae, and a touch of ska, Wishes' fresh alternative style is being enthusiastically accepted by audiences all over California.
"Wishes" is a group of musicians who have given their hearts and their talents to the Lord and are using those talents to present the Gospel to young adults around California. The band has been blessed with the ability to attract professional players and has a tremendous amount of collective musical experience represented by the members.
In the "major metropolis" of Fresno, CA, Wishes Were Fishes was formed in August of 1993 by founding members, Chris Bohrman and Jim Belt. Drummer, Steve McDowell joined the band soon after. After a few personnel changes, Wishes locked in with lead guitarist, Dave King in April of '96.
Up to the Winter of 1996, Wishes played mainly in the Fresno and surrounding areas. In January '97, however, God began opening doors for the band in the Bay Area including the very first Spirit Westcoast Christian Music Festival. Consequently, Wishes has found a great number of friends & fans in the Bay Area and affectionately calls it their home away from home! (Chris and family re-located to Monterey in 1997 and the band played on...)
In January, 1999, Gary Price became the newest member of the band, taking over Dave King\'s position as lead/rhythm guitar and b.u. vocals. Gary left Wishes in 2000 to start a new project, Visitor, with long-time pal, Steve McDowell.
2001 brought in a new flavor for Wishes Were Fishes. Stan Flaming who Co-Produced \"HumbleBee\" joined on keyboards and in 2002 Steve returned on drums, making up Wishes Were Fishes, Version 10.0!
2006 and then there were three... Wishes is back to the "Power Trio" format with original members, Jim, Chris and Steve, a bunch of new songs and a streamlined power pop sound.
Newest member Jason Fields! Jason has been playing drums for the Lord since he was knee-high to a grasshopper. Since he's now 6'8" tall, that's been a long time! He has been touring with Wishes since Sept. 2009. Jason shares his rythmic gifts with children of varying ages as a Drum Instructor for the Selma School District. Jas attends New Day Community Church in Selma and plays on the worship team.
*Historic Trivia footnote! Scott Nielsen-(also a Wishes drummer) was Jason's Jr. High Math teacher!
Artist: Steve Yost Song: Roll My Blues Away CD: Behold Genre: blues Label:Independent Homepage
ADDING TO BLUES FORMATS IMMEDIATELY!
Stephen Yost, lead singer of Common Destiny, is a professional studio musician who has recorded or played with such nationally known music groups such as Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Reality Check, Petra, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Joe English (formerly of Paul McCartney and Wings), Imperials, Glad, Lamb, White Heart, Andre Crouch and the Disciples. He was also given the opportunity to work with his musical mentor, Larry Norman.
Common Destiny includes Todd Lanzolotti on drums, Gary Bowman on keyboards and backup vocals, and Ben Caruso on bass guitar.Men in Black, a quartet group, have sung in some of the most influential churches along the east coast. Singing bass is Preston Fortione, one of the lowest bass singers today. Norman\"Ski\" Kiersznowski sings tenor.He is known worldwide for his unbelievable high tenor range,especially in the christian metal world leading his band Faith Factor.Rounding out the middle range of the group is Gary Bowman and Steve Yost of Common Destiny. A WORSHIPPER Your destiny is a worshipper.
Worship is a natural instinct and a basic need for every person. A simple definition of worship is to regard with great devotion or to honor as a divine being. Worship happens when we sing to God, whether in church or alone - in our cars or in the shower. Your desire is to please the heart of God, it is worship, no matter where the location or how many are involved. A life of praise and worship fills your deepest needs and amazingly it also brings great joy to God. Ask God it might be you!
Artist: Risen Witness Song: Message From The King CD: Risen Witness Genre: blues Label:Independent Homepage
RISEN WITNESS BIO:
Ed Moore, The son of the late Robert Edwin Moore and still living Kathryn Joyce Moore, born Aug. 13,1949 at Martins Ferry Ohio. Ed graduated from Warren consolidated high school in Tiltonsville Ohio and later attended Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio. Ed is married to Christy L. Moore and has two daughters Deni Fowler and Carrie Nobile. Ed is the proud “Pappy” of four grandchildren. Ed is the owner of Moore’s Music Emporium in Bridgeport, Ohio.
Ed was raised in the Methodist Church and was later ordained though the Christian Church and is now a Minister of Music.
At the age of twelve, Ed was embarrassed into learning to play the guitar and has been playing music ever since. He has played in such bands as Wild Cherry, Sweetwater and Stranger and is now in a Christian group called “Risen Witness”. When Ed was playing secular music his bands opened concerts for such bands as Uriah Heap, Nazareth, Charlie Daniels, Santana, B.T.O. Foghat and many other well known 70’s bands. He was signed with Dunhill Records, and has done recordings for other labels as well. In 1968 Ed lost his best two friends, both killed in car accidents .The depression that followed brought Ed to seek a deeper meaning to life. After ten years of study of the different faiths, cults and philosophies, Ed received Jesus as Lord and Savior.
After a few years of trials and backsliding, Ed met Christy in church and married her on Nov.12 1982.They now minister in prisons and numerous churches, bringing the Good News in music and the Word.
Christy Moore: Born in Pontiac, Michigan to an unwed mother, at the age of three, she was in court to be given up for adoption where her grandparents fought to gain custody of her. They won the judgment, but had to leave the state to get it, so they ended up in St. Clairsville, Ohio.
Over the years as time passed and she grew, she found the world to be a cruel, judgmental place - even in the little Methodist church she grew up in. She found she couldn’t trust “family” either. Some grandfathers and cousins husbands didn’t “play” nice, and “children were to be seen and not heard”, so who could you tell when you didn’t want to hurt anyone...
One day when searching for an envelope to mail yet another letter out to her “sister” who loved and understood her, she stumbled upon a drawer full of those letters that had never been mailed. When she asked why, she was told to sit down. As the story began to unfold, she found out that the one she had believed to be her sister was really her mother, and that she had a half- brother, and three half-sisters!
A phone call followed not long after, and her real mother had no where to live because her husband had just shot and killed a man and was going to the Michigan state prison. Her newly found family moved in the small farmhouse with them and she thought this would be great, but found the children clung to their mother and hated her, for fear she might take their mother away.
With self-esteem low and feeling pushed away, she turned to her boyfriend for comfort who told her that intimacy was the way you proved your love. Three months later she found out she was pregnant, they married and had a baby girl. The husband, realizing he was out from under his fathers control, turned wild. He began dealing drugs, joined a biker gang, and became very physically and mentally abusive. She was told that her husband was cheating on her with all her friends, but how could that be true when he loved her? Then she caught him with one of her sisters. Time went on, things just got worse.
When woken up from her nap one day, the little girl crawled out of her crib and ran to her daddy, hanging on his arm pleading, “Please, don’t hit my mommy no more!”
Knowing things were now effecting her little girl, Christy knew she had to do something - but how? Her husband would log-chain her car to the trailer hitch and tie a string over the outside of the door to see if she came outside. Who could help and how could she be free?
She found herself at another outlaw biker event watching helplessly as people were shot and killed, run over with trucks, and raped just yards from her.
With fear gripping her and feeling like it would be best just to end it all and at least get her daughter away from this lifestyle, the Lord gently spoke to her on that hillside and said, “This is not what I had planned for your life, your purpose in this life is much greater...”.
Which brings us to today... One word from God can turn a life around for good!
The road that leads us back has many turns... He takes us through bad choices, though divorce, through cancer, through many lessons, to restoration, to healing, to completeness, till we shine like him and radiate a life with nothing missing, nothing broken.
Today, Christy and her now husband Ed, of 25 years, have a ministry called “Risen Witness”.
Two lives combined as one ministry where they share their powerful testimonies in churches, outdoor festivals, and prisons in Word and with their band.
Artist: Lisa Winter Song: He Touched Me CD: ReVisiting Hymn Genre: alternative/blues Label:Ground Sound Records Homepage
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