We have Lift Off.

What's up all!!!

Seems like we're starting all of these blogs off the same way "Okay its been a while..." but I have been busy doing productive stuff.  God is changing me.  That's what I've noticed most.  The word of God has become more precious to me.  I need it more every day.  If I don't read, I notice that my life goes into a tail spin.  My thoughts go haywire.  My spirit feels polluted.  Its that word in me that chases away the crap that I'm bombarded with.  When I take God's word into my spirit, I can think clearly.  Temptations don't have the same effect on me.  They come but they don't overcome.  Its become more important that my necessary food!  (Like Job says) I like this change in me.  I'm learning to depend on God more and more.  That takes more pressure off of me.  I don't have to fight... God's got it.  I do have my part.  My part is doing what he tells me.  When I do that I soar.  We have Lift off!

We hooked up with the crew from Extreme Tour and made some wonderful contacts there.  Home for a little bit, but will be taking off in November for a short hop through Jamaica!  Which is going to be an absolute BLAST!  I'm not sure where we head from there.  I anticipate heading over to the UK for the rest of the fall. If that happens, I will definitely let you know.  I'll make sure you guys has plenty of video to feast on!!!

I have a new song called "Good for Me" that I will probably debut in Jamaica. It just seems like the perfect place to drop a song like this.  I LOVE the song, its just a vibe that people should use their words to propel themselves forward.  The Bible says we "have the power of life and death in our tongues..." and we should use that power.  Okay, now praise report!!! We released the "Love Makes You Real" track last month.  At present its only on internet radio, but that will change SHORTLY!!! It debuted last week at #151 on DRT (digital radio tracker) top 200 in the nation.  It debut at #24 on DRT's indie top 100.  It is climbing FAST so you should be hearing on your local radio station soon.  We haven't shot the real video yet, but here's a Lyric Video for you to check out until we do.  I am estimating that it will be shot in the next 15 days.  If you are in Charlotte, PLEASE come by getcho cameo on as we will need a LOT of people to pull this on off. I have this vision of a large group people in circles within circles within circles all rotating in different directions.  I need a big crew to pull this off.  So if you're in the city PLEASE come by and bring yo' cousins with you.  It will probably take us two hours to set up and shoot the scene.

I've been producing music for other artists.  I just finished a track for Pastor Melvin Moore called Focus.  GREAT man of God with a GREAT choir supporting him.  It was truly a pleasure to work with him.  Okay... its late.  I will write more tomorrow.  For now, please check out the Lyric Video and tell me what you think.  If you like it, PLEASE share it!  When we shoot the real video, PLEASE come by if you're in Charlotte!!!! This feels so different now.  I feel like I could fly!  We have LIFT OFF!


Oh yeah, here's the link for the single if you'd like to grab it!  If you like it, Please tell somebody!!!
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Overwhelmed sometimes.

Trying to be better at keeping you guys in the loop at what's going on.  I wrote a song a little while ago that didn't feel complete to me.  My vocal performance on it was terrible and it just bothered the heck outta me.  So I got with a talented pianist that I've written amazing stuff with before and made another attempt that the piece.  We changed the key, wrote a bridge and a vamp and the song took on new life.  Now it seems that this may be the hit we've been looking for to launch all the other good stuff that I have.  It looks like God has set me up to explode now.  The song is called "Love Makes You Real" and I am so excited about where this has the potential to go. Everywhere I do this song, people are overwhelmed. With all the craziness going on in the world right now this song seems so timely.  Love is the only thing that save us.  The song's lyrics talk about how love makes us real. Since the Bible tells us that God IS love, God is the only thing that makes us real.

I get lost in the love of God sometimes.  It amazes me that he would imprison himself in flesh just to save me. He allowed himself to be tortured beyond anything any human being has experienced before or since - just to save me.  He experienced overwhelming fear, so much so that he sweated blood, but he did it anyway - just to save me.  And according to the Bible, he still bears those wounds - nail holes in his hands and feet, a spear in his side. Humiliated by the children he loved.  Hated by the children he loved - just to save me.  And the Bible says he endured the cross with joy???  Wow.  He took the power of death, hell and the grave.  And now gives me the power to become one of the sons of God, to be children of light.  Ephesians 5:8 says "For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light..." The amplified Bible says this means that we should walk as children of light - walk as if we had NEVER sinned. By just believing on the sacrifice of Jesus, God looks at me like I have NEVER committed a sin. Purified to perfection by the blood of Jesus.  That's the love of God.  That's the power of the blood of Jesus.  Like I said, I'm overwhelmed sometimes. This is the start of the fire.  Thank you guys for hanging with me on this journey.  Its been a long one, but I believe we are ready to launch now.  God is good!

Check out the lyric video #LoveMakesYouReal Video

Here's the Acoustic version of the song Acoustic Version of the Song

Curt

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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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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...

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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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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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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