I’m on the Shelter Me Tour with Selah and Aaron Shust right now. I sing a little and but mostly I’m out here to speak on behalf of Compassion International.
But the bonus is playing cities I’ve never been to before – mostly the Northeast and Midwest – and getting to know the other guys on… 
Archive for April 2011
Shelter Me: Iowa
Recording: Kim Sandusky In The Studio
I’ve never recorded vocals well. I mean healthy.
We’ve always recorded in the Spring, face full of pollen, throat swollen and raw and rough. And on top of all the seasonal yuck I had strep while recording vocals for my last album. I was in such bad shape I talked a doctor into giving me a…
Recording: The O In Studio
Andrew Osenga is a writer, producer, guitar slinger for The Normals and then Caedmon’s Call, a prolific solo artist, he’s only got nine toes (thanks to his mower) and….he’s sitting two feet from me playing the electric guitar parts to every song on the new record.
The source of his guitar genius? Nine magic pedals.
And granola bars.
He…
The Process From Sputnik Sound
So here’s how this process works.
Pre-Production
Mitch The Producer and I spent two days in the studio doing pre-production. That means different things to different people. For us it meant me playing every song for Mitch, hearing his critique, going through the A&R guy’s list of things that should be changed (and things that shouldn’t be),…
Putting Words To God
“It’s not called ‘the word business’ for a reason,” my co-writer joked as I agonized over the next line of a lyric years ago. I hadn’t been in Nashville long – but long enough to know he was wrong.
Christian music is the only genre defined by its lyrical content and not musical composition and production.…
Recording Day 3: Eldr!
Yesterday was difficult. I was asked again and again to rethink chord choices and melodies, to ask myself if what I’d written was the most artful it could be. And my answer? No. And I’m OK with that.
There’s a subculture of brilliant Nashville musicians who are rebelling against being at-all “commercial” or “CCM” or whatever…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
