{"id":273,"date":"2014-06-26T11:47:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T11:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=273"},"modified":"2014-06-26T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T11:47:17","slug":"blog-june-26th-uplifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Blog June 26th \u201cUplifted\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Uplifted
\n“Uplifted” – Mustard Seed Songs’ third album<\/p>\n

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\nLucy and Maggie recording\u00a0 “My Beloved King” at Bob Ross Studios, Portsmouth<\/p>\n

Mustard Seed Songs\u2019 first concerts featured Lucy Stimpson singing solos and playing piano with the Mustard Seed Girls\u2019 Choir introduced soon after.<\/p>\n

I remember after one concert it being suggested that in order to appeal to a wider audience we should consider playing more up-tempo songs. I had grown up on R and B\/ Soul music and particularly loved the brass breaks on Wilson Pickett\u2019s \u201cin the Midnight Hour\u201d Sam and Dave\u2019s \u201cYou Don\u2019t Know like I Know\u201d and Jackie Wilson\u2019s \u201cHigher and Higher.\u201d The breaks on all three are similar and I have to admit they greatly influenced the brass break I wrote for the song \u201cUplifted\u201d (not plagiarism I promise -not even sampling – just influenced!)<\/p>\n

I had by now written four upbeat songs and a number of musicians I had begun to know were rapidly evolving into The Mustard Seed Soul Band\u00a0\u00a0 – Nicola and Fiona Poustie and Kat Hands on vocals, Ross Gill on lead guitar, Jim Rogers on acoustic, Darren Lewis on drums , Gareth Matthews and \u00a0Andy Herbertson on bass, \u00a0Chris Backhouse on keys and Matt Goffee on trumpet with Robbie Richardson on sax.<\/p>\n

So we used the song \u201cUplifted\u201d as the title track for our third album (artwork again thanks to Neale Gordon) with the Mustard Seed Soul Band also playing on three other up- tempo tracks-\u201c There\u2019s Going to be a Party,\u201d \u201cJesus You are\u00a0 my Lord and my King\u201d and \u201cJE and then SUS\u201d\u00a0 however to ensure the album really was family friendly we included a song for children \u201cWhat would Jesus Do\u201d sung by a Crofton schoolgirl -Yvette Page. This was later sung by the Crofton Hammond School Choir for our musical \u201cHis Story.\u201d\u00a0 Of course the album also included solos from Lucy Stimpson (now Lucy Stimpson – Maynard after marrying David) and one which now features in our forthcoming musical \u201cRisen!\u201d \u00a0is \u201cMy Beloved King.\u201d \u00a0In \u00a0\u201cRisen!\u201d \u00a0this song is sung by Mary Sister of Lazarus and Martha as she anoints the feet of Jesus the night before His \u201cThe Triumphal Entry\u201d into Jerusalem. In the \u201cUplifted\u201d version Lucy\u2019s vocals are accompanied by the haunting flute accompaniment of Maggie Horton. Today\u2019s pic show the two of them recording in Bob Ross\u2019s studio, Portsmouth<\/p>\n

We used the track \u201cUplifted\u201d for Mustard Seeds first musical \u201cHis Story. \u201d We also used another track from the \u201cUplifted\u201d album -\u201cStill in Tears.\u201d Here is the story behind that song. When Lucy left Crofton School to move to Cambridge the school had an end of term \u201cleaving do\u201d in the school grounds. Lucy sang \u201cSomewhere over the Rainbow\u201d and her rendition, together with the fact that she was leaving Crofton, made me really rather emotional. Later that evening the male staff were in Old Portsmouth for a few \u201cend of term beers\u201d and I gave Lucy a ring -she asked me how I was and I replied \u201cI\u2019m still in tears.\u201d The moment I said that I knew that this was the title of a new song. Two days later I took some students to Alton Towers and on the way there made up the song. To begin with the lyrics were secular with something about \u201cthere being laughter in the air as another carnival draws near but not for me as I am still in tears.\u201d \u00a0However I soon changed them for lyrics based on someone being in tears after the crucifixion of Jesus.<\/p>\n

I am still on that hill, pleading “No please no,” as they torture Your flesh and You surrender Your soul. You told us this had to be and that we should all have no fears but even Peter – the rock even he –\u00a0 is still in tears.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cStill in Tears\u201d is this week\u2019s featured song – the cello part is played by James Oliver who became Head of Music at Crofton after Lucy moved to Cambridge.<\/p>\n

So Mustard Seeds now had three albums and were producing concerts on a fairly regular basis, however the songs \u00a0were only reaching a limited number of people, but that all changed after a visit to Waverley Abbey House, the Centre for\u00a0 CWR (Crusade for World Revival) the publishers of \u201cEvery Day With Jesus.\u201d\u00a0 The story of how 80, 000 of Mustard Seed Songs were distributed world -wide by CWR is next weeks story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Uplifted” – Mustard Seed Songs’ third album Lucy and Maggie recording\u00a0 “My Beloved King” at Bob Ross Studios, Portsmouth ” Still in Tears” from “Uplifted” album\u00a0 featuring Lucy Stimpson-Maynard on vocals and piano with\u00a0 James Oliver on cello. Mustard Seed Songs\u2019 first concerts featured Lucy Stimpson singing solos and playing piano with the Mustard Seed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}