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So, I am sitting in a hotel room in Macomb, IL. Waking in about 7 hours to kick off the tour at the Cornerstone Festival. Well, not actually playing in 7 hours, but heading down there to get a primo camping spot. I am excited to see what God will ...
** New artist Joy Whitlock is headlining the Testify tour as it kicks off June 28 at Cornerstone Festival in Bushnell, IL. The acoustic tour will also introduce audiences to indie duo Carolina Story who are also launching a “Spare Change” campaign...
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- Every prodigal has their own story of redemption. This story just happens to take place in a cold and dark movie theater that was probably showing Ben Stiller’s Along Came Polly just the week before. With tears streaming down her lightly freckled cheeks, legs and feet curled up to her chest – a safe distance from the stickiness of a dried cola stained floor – in a hideously colored synthetic-cloth covered seat, Joy Whitlock’s life changed forever.
Joy grew up in Mississippi, in a number of towns that only differed by the names they were given a few hundred years before. Her father was a minister, which was the reason for the Whitlock family’s pilgrimage through the Magnolia state one small town at a time moving from one flock to the next. If every flock needed a black sheep, Joy readily filled that role maybe too eagerly seeking to numb a pain that could only be healed by the One who created her. “I tried to fill the emptiness I felt with anything that numbed or felt like love – drugs… promiscuity… the usual stuff.” She looks back with regret now at the pain she caused her mother and father as well as the embarrassment she subjected them to with her actions, a theme she touches on in the standout track “Faith Don’t Fail.”
The good news is that for Joy, God was not content to watch his child aimlessly self-medicate her pain any longer and saw fit to write himself into her story. You see, God finally caught up to the then 21 year-old in Memphis, Tennessee where she had spent the past four years living with her sister after leaving her home in Mississippi at age 17. “I think He had been trying to show me something… my own emptiness, for the whole year leading up to that point,” Joy remembers the night. “And from the first scene of the movie, it was like the goggles were taken off and I could see clearly – all that I had ever done – lay on His back to bear.”
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What A Day!
September 19, 2009
So….yesterday was quite an eventful day for me. It started off with me heading to Ardent to do some demos, which is always intimidating and, almost nerve-wracking, in a way. I mean, you are debuting brand spanking new songs. New emotions…new thoughts…new ideas. You’re basically saying, “Here’s my secrets for the past 6 months. Hope you like them”. I had actually just finished writing one that very morning!
Next, headed to AR for a show that night. Arrived early and had time t… Continue
So….yesterday was quite an eventful day for me. It started off with me heading to Ardent to do some demos, which is always intimidating and, almost nerve-wracking, in a way. I mean, you are debuting brand spanking new songs. New emotions…new thoughts…new ideas. You’re basically saying, “Here’s my secrets for the past 6 months. Hope you like them”. I had actually just finished writing one that very morning!
Next, headed to AR for a show that night. Arrived early and had time t… Continue
Posted on September 19, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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Posted on July 15, 2009 at 1:24pm —
Cornerstone '09 Video Blog
Check out my new video blog about Cornerston '09 at http://www.tangle.com/view_video.php?viewkey=4ac1a1efa91b73455ddd
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Enjoy!
Posted on July 7, 2009 at 2:33pm —
South Dakota
Well today we are still in South Dakota. This is Emily’s hometown. We played last night for her church gathering at a cool little park. We are staying at her family’s house and oh how beautiful it is! Her family lives on the most beautiful acres of farmland that I have ever seen. It is so quiet….and natural…and just reminds me of how amazing God’s handiwork is. I don’t get to see too much of it living in a city. We stay here for one more night and then on to Arkansas for a couple of days.
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Posted on July 6, 2009 at 4:18pm —
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Karen
God bless you always. :)
I enjoyed your devotional for your song called Beautiful. Congrats on being one of the best new artists. You deserved it. Bye and God bless you.
Karen
I love your music. Welcome to the new My CCM website. I hope you like it. Bye and God bless you.