February 2012
4 posts
Nashville... Is There Life Out There?
Welcome to my blog. If you haven’t been here before, I’m glad you stopped by. My name is Daniel Childs. I am a Gospel Music Singer / Social Media Coordinator / Independent Musician living in the Nashville, Tennessee area. In this blog, I generally talk about whatever issue is on my mind, no holds barred!
Tonight I feel like discussing something that I have been thinking about...
Blackwood Legacy On Tour - The end of a film...
Over the past ten months, many of you have expressed how much you enjoy the series of short, Youtube-based documentaries I have created entitled “Blackwood Legacy On Tour”. We have released five well-watched episodes, and number six is currently being edited.
Blackwood Legacy On Tour Episode Six will air this week, and will be the final episode in the film series. I feel that I...
Connecting The Dots: Needing Your Help!
I am proud to announce that my first solo Gospel ministry tour will take place the first week of this coming April. I will be headed to Texas and beyond for a week of ministering to audiences through my favorite Gospel songs, and through testimony, as well as a time of invitation.
We currently have two concerts booked for the tour. I will be in Irving, Texas on March 31st, and Nocona, Texas...
December 2011
1 post
1 tag
At last, sweet peace we'll have finally found.
Just wanted to post something encouraging tonight. I know most of the things I have posted lately have been a little bit on the negative side. I simply have had a tough and confusing month.
As a Christian entertainer, I’m expected to lift people up, and I strive to do so every night on stage. In Blackwood Legacy, we work hard to be a blessing. But in my off-stage time, I fight the...
November 2011
2 posts
Bridge Over Troubled Water
How can one song say so much??
I don’t have many ways of expressing myself in life. Never have. There are only so many people who will hear you out face to face about your problems and not judge you. So, what are my options? I have two. This blog, and music.
Music is something that I have related to since high school. Somewhere along the way, in my late teens, I realized that...
Blurry
I have something to say but I’m not even sure what it is. I’ve spent the last three nights tossing and turning and having nightmares. Tonight I’m so put out with bed sleep that I am kicking back in a chair in our hotel room, wrapped up in a blanket about to watch some netflix.
I wonder what sleep is. And I wonder why I dread it. I always have a slight trepidation in the...
October 2011
1 post
Wisdom for Fools
Why do I write?
I write music for the confused. For the ones who struggle to fit in with this twisted society. I write music for the people who know they’re not perfect, and for the people who wrestle with life as they lay in bed at night wishing they could sleep. I write music for the seekers of God, for the sufferers, and for the guy who can never get the girl he loves to look his...
May 2011
1 post
Jim Halpert approach vs. Michael Scott approach
MY RELATIONSHIP APPROACH THEORY
Here I go, talking about relationships again. But please note that everything I say in reference to relationships is well thought-out over mass amounts of time and tested to hold weight as truth.
Observe the above clip of “Date Mike”, portrayed by Office character Michael Scott, portrayed by actor Steve Carell. Girls, would you want to go out with...
April 2011
1 post
The Reversal Theory
Something I haven’t said for a long time, but finally feel like talking about.
I heard this line in a song called “Free Falling” yesterday…
“All the vampires walkin’ through the valley Move west down Ventura Blvd And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows All the good girls are home with broken hearts”
I respect what the writer is trying to say,...
January 2011
1 post
My Anthem of Today
Oh, Come, Angel Band
Jefferson Pascall
My latest sun is sinking fast
My race is nearly run
My strongest trials now are past,
My triumph has begun.
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I know I’m near the holy ranks
Of friends and kindred dear
I hear the waves on Jordan’s banks
The crossing must be near.
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Oh, come, angel band
Come and around me stand
Oh, bear me away on your snowy wings
To my eternal...
December 2010
2 posts
The Voice Of Truth
Screams. The inside can scream things at us. We can tell it to be quiet and leave us alone, but that doesn’t change the fact that worries try to plague our minds, especially when we are the most vulnerable.
But this is not the voice we should be listening to. The voice of condemnation always doubts, always terrifies, and always stresses.
But there is another voice, the one that you...
From a Friend to a Stranger
Emerson Hart wrote this song about forgiving the men who murdered his dad.
God calls us to forgive. In fact, He expects it of us. He has made it clear over and over in His Word that we are to forgive those who have sinned against us.
I am amazed at the amount of forgiveness it would take to forgive men who murdered your dad. That’s some rough stuff. That had to be purely God-sent...
November 2010
1 post
Changing
“YOU FALL APART AND THEN YOU STOP” - SAOSIN
Change… good? bad? I think it can be both sometimes.
I’ve been alive 24 years and have experienced a life of continual change from one stage of life to the next. Nothing ever seems to stay the same. Life goes into different chapters and periods at frequent rates. Somehow though, I persist. Not on my own strength.
For...
October 2010
3 posts
My Roots
Wow. This singing takes me back. THIS is the kind of singing that influenced me early on. Michael English. Mark Lowry. And my dad, Andy Childs.
My dad was a country music artist when I was growing up. He had records out on RCA and Warner Brothers, and also wrote songs for EMI and Windswept. But the music he sang that touched me most was not the music on the albums he had out. It was...
Finding Home
This song reminds me so much of a night that I will never forget with a person I will never forget. Though I still know her, the girl she was three years ago has faded away and she’s someone else. Our relationship never began, and we’ve always been under the premise of friendship… but it’s always been so much more than that in my mind.
She’s with someone else....
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Sleepers
Am I groggy from a physical period of extensive rest, or am I just emotionally drained? I don’t know. But for whatever reason, on my day off yesterday, I slept nearly the entire day.
I guess sometimes when we have been extremely busy, and finally have a day in which we have nothing to do, life catches up to us, and… boom. We pass out.
So I’m back in the office...