Thursday, June 30, 2016

I love the giver!

Soooo.... I know, I know its been a while and I always say that I will keep up with this blog and I always get side tracked.  Well... I'm in a hotel and I got time on my hands so I will attempt to update you all.
We did a lousy job marketing the "Resist" project.  Shame on us.  It has great songs on it that very few people have heard and that's a tragedy.  So we're pulling it from the online stores ASAP.  We are starting with a fresh approach.  We will release one song and market it until it catches fire.  Then we will release the rest of the project.  That makes sense.  Anyhoo... the new song is a beautiful ballad called "Love Makes You Real"  I anticipate this being a BIG song.  If you'd like a sneak peek, we uploaded an acoustic version of it on reverbnation.  Check it out:

https://www.reverbnation.com/curtiswaynehurley/song/26167089-love-makes-you-real-acoustic

I'm so excited about the possibility that this song presents.  I'm overwhelmed with what I feel when I listen to it myself.  But do listen for yourself.  If it moves you, please let ya boy know.

We are still preparing to do X-fest and the Extreme Tour.  When those materialize, that will mean the rest of the year on the road.  But it won't be like I originally envisioned.  We will do the usual promo stuff, hit the radio stations and do the shows.  But after that... we will hit the streets and minister to and love on people.  I'll use the music and the public appearances to draw attention to my work, and then use that to draw all attention to God.  People will be accustomed to seeing my face and they will be willing to listen to a "celebrity".  And I will take that opportunity to tell people about God and Jesus and his Love.  I love the music.  Its a gift from God.  But I love the giver much more than I love the Gift.  Stay Prayed Up!

Curt

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Monday, May 23, 2016

This Man's Journey...: My music and My Life

This Man's Journey...: My music and My Life: What's good family! Just got back from Nashville.  I attended the "Objective Weekend",  the four day selection process for t...
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My music and My Life

What's good family!

Just got back from Nashville.  I attended the "Objective Weekend",  the four day selection process for the Extreme Tour.  It was four days of intense sessions covering many topics.  Speaker after speaker pouring out their hearts to us about music and music ministry and the music biz and the true ministry.  It was all kind of numbing at first.  Line upon line. Precept upon precept.  But then a speaker got up and shared about personal struggles.  Here was a man being groomed to be a Pastor and his personal struggles caused him to walk away from it all.  Those personal struggles nearly cost him his marriage, his family... everything.  Watching his passionate transparency struck something in me and I decided to seek him out to speak to him one on one.  I approached a man who I thought was him and bared my soul.  He said, "I'm not the one who shared that testimony, but I'm the guy who can help you..."  He then pulled me aside and set me on a path to fight my challenges and to show others how to fight.  One of the main things he said was that I needed an accountability team. 2-3 people who can pointedly and directly ask me anything and I would answer... honestly.  I'm a solo artist.  That means I don't step outside of myself to allow people to see much of anything. I don't create with a band that I have to be "naked emotionally" with in order to accomplish musical goals.  Its just me.  I create and then call in others to help me complete the project.  And now all of a sudden I have to have a team of people that I can't hide from.  I find it intrusive, but freeing at the same time.  I can fight now.  No, not drinking, not on drugs or the down-low or cheating on the wife or anything crazy.  But I have my thorns and I shared that with him.  I didn't want my meteoric rise to match an equally horrific fall.  I told him that terrified me.   He reminded me of who I was.  I'm a child of God.  I'm a new creation and God has my back.  It was odd that I wanted to share with one person about my life - and the one person who had my solution showed up.
The other thing that I learned was that I've been around the music "businessmen"so much over the last three years - that I allowed it to warp what I knew was real.  I kept hearing the refrain "If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense" bouncing around in my skull.  Yes, I KNOW that the work has to be done.  Yes I know I must present that work well in order to make sales that I can feed my family with.  But what's real is that it isn't as important about having a marketable product.. its MORE important that your "product" draws others to Christ.  I'm a warrior... here to make more warriors.  My music is made to build up the army of God.  As I listened to it with different ears this time, I hear that.  I hear it building up people.  I hear it giving strength to others.  Its got a little funk to it.  Its got a little hip-hop to it.  Its got a little jazz to it.  But most of all its got the word of God through every song.  The Objective this weekend opened some doors in my heart.  I'm so different now I really can't explain it.  My life is to SHOW God's love, that's all.  I do that with my music and my life.

Curt

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Thursday, April 7, 2016

In Due Time

Be in prayer for me.  I'm working to put the new project together.  Its still NOT the live recording, I'm sorry.  We have a new single called "Love Makes You Real" that is making a lot of noise everywhere I go.  The plan is now to pull the current CD from the market and then repackage the best songs on it with the three new pieces that I have now.  God will do great things with this, I'm sure.  But what I need your prayers about is a possible upcoming tour.  Five months on the road covering about twenty countries.  I know, this is what I've been dying to do all of my life.  My hesitation only arises out of a sincere desire to only do God's will - not just chase my dreams.  I want to do this with everything in me.  Its only five months - not one of those two year tours that would keep me away from my family 'til my boys didn't recognize me anymore.  It seems the perfect little opportunity to chase my dreams before my children get to that desperation phase.  But pray that I'm hearing clearly from God and NOT being blinded by my own desires.  My desire is to truly be obedient to God - and if he says no, I will stay my happy butt right here.  Its been my life-long desire to do a world tour.  And if this is God, I'm going IN with a vengeance to proclaim his message and his love to the world.  If this is NOT God, I am smart enough to know that it would only hurt me.  So yes, be in prayer for me.
Love Makes You Real is such a beautiful song.  I hear it sometimes and I wonder why I have it.  People can't believe that it was written by little old me... sometimes I can't either.  It came from God and songs like that amaze me.  I'm excited for the world to hear it.  But all will come in due time.  This I know
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Hit Me Up!

Greetings All!

You know... I have just been yattering on for months now.  I'm getting a little bored with my own voice here.  To be honest, i'd like to hear from you guys!  I'd like to know what's going on with you.  How are you feeling?  How are you doing? Is there anything that I can pray with you about?  I'll get back to talking about me and this journey in a few, but right now I want to know about you.  Drop me a line.  If you want to just talk about the music and what the "Si-Dubb Machine" is doing, that's fine as well.  If you want to talk about what you'd actually like to see from me (or from us actually), let me know.  Drop your comments or questions in the comments section below and I will check and answer this blog daily.
But on to what's happening now, we are trying to put together a forty city tour for the fall.  The more momentum it gains, the longer we'll be out there.  Going to do a major push on the "Won't Back Down" video and... OHHHHH!  EXCITEMENT!!! There is a song on the Resist Project called "One True Miracle" The original arrangement was nice, but it was in a bad key for me and the artist who appears with me.  We did it anyway.  It turned out bad, but its still on the CD.  I LOVED the words to the song, but the track just didn't work with the way I feel music and it kept EATING at me.  So I got with my favorite pianist - Dr. Ronald Monroe - and voiced my displeasure.  I told him the song was in the wrong key for me and it needed changes and a vamp to make it "go places".  He agreed.  We wrote new music in a MUCH more comfortable key, added changes and a SWEET vamp at the end and now we have a hit song!  I KNOW its a hit song because church members were shouting over it and had never heard it before.  It was wonderful!  So I'm going to re-release it as a single and SOON! The title is "Love Makes You Real (one true miracle remix).  I am so excited about this song!  God is so good to me because I was so disappointed at how that track came out.  But God is good!  It now has the power and the anointing that lets people free themselves and worship God.  I feel so good about this now!  But I will let you know as soon as its up!  In the mean time, hit me up with your questions, comments and feelings.  I'll hit you back, I promise!

Curt

"Living This Dream"

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Down for whatever


I've been thinking.  I know, I know... I shouldn't do that.  LOL.  I learned something recently.  I'm quoting a Pastor.  I don't even know his name, but the word he brought was so dramatic that I can't stop thinking about it.  He was speaking from the latter chapters of Matthew... when Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane and he gave some clarity about the cross.  I knew what he was saying as I've heard it all of my life, but for some reason it resonated with me differently that night and won't leave my spirit. I mean, it isn't new information. I've heard it before I even sang about it in a song, called "AnyWay"...  So I understood the message.
Anyhoo... he was talking about the sacrifice that Christ made for this world. He spoke about the reluctance that Christ had to being crucified.  But his reluctance didn't have to do with dying or even the suffering.  His reluctance had to do with being out of the presence of God.  The only he couldn't deal with was God turning his back on him.  That was why he cried out to God from the cross in Matthew 27... "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. 46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"  God turned his back on Jesus.  He removed him from his presence.  He put Jesus through the experience of being out of the presence of God - so that we would never have to be.  God had a choice - either let Jesus face this for three days, or let mankind face it for all eternity.  He chose us over Jesus.  I chose to make this personal... God chose me over Jesus.  He allowed his Son to suffer the pains of death (separation from God) so that I will never have to.  I have trouble not tearing up when I think about this.  God loves me more than I understand... probably more than I will ever understand.  I've been told that I should be speaking the word God as well as singing it.  After seeing that brother minister... I'm ready to do whatever God has for me.  When it comes to God the father, I'm down for whatever.  I'm a yielded vessel. Whatever God's plan is for my life... God's will be done.  

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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Atmosphere

I keep running into artist after artist that beg me to re-record my songs.  I wouldn't have a problem with it, if I were finished with my new project and promoting that.  But that new  project (BRANDED) is at the very least a year away.  Yes you can sing better than I do.  You have a better range and better tone and all of the frills that years of practicing riffs has given you.  But God gave this music to me. It is part of the message that he has given me to share.  It is my ministry.  They hear one of my songs and think "I can do that so much better than he can..." I'm sure they can.  But this isn't about delivery.  Its about ministry.  My songs fit together in a nice little puzzle.  The whole project has one overall message.  I found this out one day after everything was done. 
I took each song and wrote the scripture  that each verse was create from and wrote it next to the verse. I found that those scriptures were a cohesive message, but that message had nothing to do with the song.  The song I wrote was a kind of "sermon".  The scriptures that I used to create the verses, when laid out in the order they appear in the song, were a totally different sermon. It blew my mind. Two different message were coming to life in the songs I wrote.  
But anyway, I was thinking that it was my ego. That I simply didn't want to be out some place and hear someone say "that's sister or brother blah-blah's song".   I also considered the "business" of doing something like this.  It would net me double the revenue as I would be performing the song and the new artist would be doing it as well.  I prayed about it and I got my answer.  At this point, NO. When I finish the new project and start on that message, anybody who wants to record my old music may do so - after we take care of the paperwork of course!  LOL.  
I'm flattered that others want to do my music.  But my purpose for doing this is to create an atmosphere of HEATED praise and exhaustive worship.  That worship where they forget I'm even there. That worship where God enters and there's a tangible presence.  That heavy presence that breaks strongholds, removes burdens and breaks yokes of bondage.  That worship that people walk away from changed.  I'm looking to change lives, not entertain. And that is the reason I'm saying No.


Curt

"Living This Dream"

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