As featured on the 1999 release of the GJ Project, a compilation CD of Kansas City area Christian musicians and songwriters.

Note This song is dedicated to C.J. Krabiel (2/8/82 - 5/20/98)

Band: Empire

Song: May 20th (copyright 1998 Empire)

Credits: Joseph Hoskins (lead vocals), James Hoskins (guitar, backup vocals), Paul Buzan (bass), Samuel Hoskins (drums)

Producer: Gary Dennington

Lyrics:

I will not forget you
When the autumn leaves descend
Though the sunlight would fade to gray
My thoughts of you, will never fade.

And you will always be,
so close to me.

I will remember you,
Though my time with you is gone
Though my tears wish you could stay ...
Through His love the thought of you will never fade.

And you will always be,
so close to me.

What a friend we have in Jesus.

May 20th (Empire)

As featured on the 1999 release of the GJ Project, a compilation CD of Kansas City area Christian musicians and songwriters.

Band: The Impact Band 

Song: Meet Me Lord (copyright 1998 Gorman Stanley/Doug Dimmel)

Credits: Jeanene Cox (lead vocal), Lindsey Jones (vocals), Michael Miller (vocals), Waverly Kelly (vocals), Matt Brummett (lead guitar), Jason Jaynes (acoustic guitar), Hillary Laird (keyboard), Mark Winston (bass), Jonathon Dimmel (drums), Jason Ruthemeyer (drums), David Harris (vocal arrangement)

Special Note: The Impact Band appears courtesy of Kansas City Youth For Christ (KCYFC) 

Producer: Gorman Stanley and Doug Dimmel

Lyrics:

In a world where they say
You can be all that you may
You can hold all that your heart desires
I look up into the sky
Stars that burn a million miles away
Laughing at my arms that reach into the night

Chorus
Meet me Lord
Meet me Lord
I've gone as far as I can go
Meet me Lord
Meet me Lord
Come and meet me Lord

I've walked mile after mile
Trying to make my life worth while
Looking for that way somewhere to make me whole
And it humbles me to say
That the search has been a waste of life
Lord I'll never make it to you on my own

Chorus

They say the Lord Almighty
Helps those who help themselves
But now I am not so sure, I am so secure in knowing
That the Lord Almighty
Helps those that can not help themselves at all
He heard my call

Chorus

Chorus

Come and meet me Lord
Come and meet me Lord

Meet Me Lord (The Impact Band)

As featured on the 1999 release of the GJ Project, a compilation CD of Kansas City area Christian musicians and songwriters.

Band: The Hallelujah Cowboys

Song: I Know You (copyright 1994 Joseph C. Dekat)

Credits: Joe Dekat (lead vocal, acoustic guitar), Bob Butler (electric and slide guitars), Doug Rippee (mandolin), Ken "Doc" Dolan (drums, background vocals), Randall Gaylord (bass, background vocals)

Producer: Larry Campbell

Lyrics:

I speak of You softly, I feel You often these days
Trying to know You hoping You'll show me the way
Why does my heart cower in fear every time I feel you are near?
Hold me Lord, I am tired and sorely dismayed

I know that You hold blessings untold for me
'Cause I've had a taste of Your mercy and grace so sweet
Why do I cry when I feel Your embrace?
I know I would die at one glimpse of Your face
Open me Lord, I want to be Yours and obey

Chorus
I know You,
You are God.
I know You deep in my heart.
I know You love me and I am never alone
You made me and bought me and now
Your walking me home.

Chorus

I know You, You are God.
I know You, You are God.

I Know You (The Hallelujah Cowboys)

As featured on the 1999 release of the GJ Project, a compilation CD of Kansas City area Christian musicians and songwriters.

Artist: Cindy Tate

Song: If Heaven Blew A Kiss (Words and music by David Noel. Copyright 1992 PraiseGathering Music ASCAP. All rights controlled by Gaither Copyright Management. Used by permission.)

Credits: Cindy Tate (vocals), Mike Kelso (keyboards)

Producer: Gary Dennington

Lyrics:

The night is cold
The people, they're colder
It makes me wonder if when I get older
I'll still be searching for someplace I can belong

So little love
For one so unlovely
No one to hug or just to think of me
Maybe heaven could help me
when all hope is gone

Chorus
If ever heaven blew a kiss
I'd be the first to stand in line
Just to feel the warmth of its caress
Knowing the sender was divine
Dear God above, when You re listening
And when You're so inclined
I won't resist
If ever heaven blew a kiss

If I could only have one wish
I'd want to multiply this kiss
To everyone who's heart aches just like mine
Just like mine

Chorus

If Ever Heaven Blew a Kiss (Cindy Tate)

As featured on the 1999 release of the GJ Project, a compilation CD of Kansas City area Christian musicians and songwriters.

Band: Basement X

Song: Stand My Ground (copyright 1998 Jeff Clemens)

Credits: Julie Pippin (vocals), Jeff Clemens (guitars, background vocals), Daniel Clemens (bass), Brett Pippin (drums, background vocals)

Producer: Gary Dennington

Lyrics:

My life seems an awful waste
let's cut to the chase
well, I'm getting no place
But I'll stare my problems in the face
It's an awful case
but I will win the race

Through God I can stand my ground
when temptation snakes its head around
Through God i can not be kept down
I'm waitin' for the angels' trump to sound

Chorus:
For heaven I've been waiting all this time
to break free of gravity
with new wings I will fly
Laugh at me I'll ignore you if you try
I serve the Lord
my reward you can't deny

My life I live for the Lord
by the two edge sword
and the great reward
My voice will join in the celebration
with the congregation
of God's mighty nation

Through God I can stand my ground
when temptation snakes its head around
Through God i can not be kept down
I'm waitin' for the angels' trump to sound

Stand My Gound (Basement X)

As featured on the 1999 release of the GJ Project, a compilation CD of Kansas City area Christian musicians and songwriters.

Band: Red the Morning

Song: Places And Too Human Eyes (copyright 1998 Brent Roberts & Monica Sheafer)

Credits: Monica Sheafer (lead vocals), Brent Roberts (guitar, vocals)

Producer: Gary Dennington

Lyrics:

I am remembering yesterday
I am wishing You would take this dreariness away
Take me back to when I was strong
To a time before innocence was gone
Now I am feeling my humanness
My legs seem not so steady
Since the feelings up and left
If in my weakness there is strength
why am I questioning the depths and lengths of You

Ask me a season past
When beyond change and standing fast
When words fell gently on listening ears
And peace of mind reigned through the years
If ease would always follow the good
And pain was left hanging on some crude piece of wood

But stranded here in these shades of doubt
Turned upside down and inside out
All my clear-cut versions of night and day and 
black and white fade into gray
And in my groping for certainty
The only thing I can clearly see is You

Chorus:
Designed with never ending glorious detail
Ever just exceeding my understanding
of the times far surpassing my gaze
of these places and too human eyes

Long abandoned dreams
Dropped in passing along the way
Dreams that I left behind some lonely uneventful day
Wondering what was in them
I might have seen
Some familiar fragrance brings it drifting back to me
Were they something I should have held on to
Some sacred beauty that I've slowly grown cold to
And through my fear and uncertainty
The only thing I can clearly see is You

Chorus

Though these eyes can't see
I know you're always there
looking back at me
And when my story's told
I'll watch it all unfold
beyond these places 
and too human eyes

Places and Too Human Eyes (Red The Morning)

As featured on the 1999 release of the GJ Project, a compilation CD of Kansas City area Christian musicians and songwriters.

Band: Soulsoak

Song: Park Bench (copyright 1998 Soulsoak) From their 1998 CD release "Soulsoak"

Credits: Dave Lingenfelter (vocals), Jerry Umscheid (lead guitar), Tim Rink (guitar, backing vocal), Bruce Williams (bass), Dustin Masden (percussion, backing vocals)

Studio: Buddy Dog Studios and Grey Wolf Studios. 

Producer: Soulsoak

Lyrics:

I see through the window
As rain falls through the trees
Somewhere out there I picture
I picture You and me
We're sitting on a park bench
I'm wondering why You chose me
When there's so many others
So many others to save

Chorus:
Why does my life mean so much to You,
and why do you care
When i never did nothing but hurt You,
but You loved me anyway
You loved me anyway

There's times I put You down times I shut You out
all the thorns that were pushed because of me
Still You held me softly

Chorus

So many times so many ways
Wiping the tears You took my pain away
So many times so many years
Wiping the tears You gave me life

Chorus

Park Bench (Soulsoak)

As featured on the 1999 release of the GJ Project, a compilation CD of Kansas City area Christian musicians and songwriters.

Artist: R. Lorraine Shaver

Song: No Fear (copyright 1997 R. Lorraine Shaver)

Credits: R. Lorraine Shaver (vocals), Christy James (keyboards), Larry Campbell (lead guitar), Gary Dennington (bass) Scott Bosworth (drums)

Studio: Airborne Audio Productions

Producer: R. Lorraine Shaver

Lyrics:

Everyday I'm reminded of their faces
And everyday I keep remembering the places
Where we would walk
And how we tried so hard to talk

Seems like another world
So very far and in the distance
A lonely world
Yet pursuing with persistence
God's Holy word
You see, that is what we heard
We heard them say,

Chorus:
"We have no fear for Jesus lives here
Throughout the cold He is our stronghold
Though darkness tries to prevail He never fails
Be of good cheer for Jesus lives here"

Long, long summer days
Then in the evening we would gather to praise
And talk about believing and what God had done
That day as we worked in the sun
Oh, such stories were told
Through interpretation we saw Jesus' love unfold
In another nation
Men and women testified
One night I just hung my head and cried
As I heard them say,

Chorus

And though I know we're separated
Living oceans apart
We're like family, related
For we share the Father's heart
I think we have a lot in common
we're really very much the same
For when on our knees we've fallen
We both call out His name

Chorus

Jesus lives here

No Fear (R. Lorraine Shaver)

This song was featured on the GJ Project in 1999, a compilation of song from Kansas City are musicians and songwriters.

Band: N.A.S.

Song: Fork In The Road (copyright 1998 Steve & Leslie Dado)

Credits: Leslie Dado (lead vocal), Laura Barbour (vocals), Darin Raffety (guitars, vocals), Steve Dado (drums, vocals), Jim Curley (fretless bass)

Producer: R. Lorraine Shaver

Lyrics:

Each day that goes by you come closer 
To the facing of your destiny
And each wall of despair that you've managed to climb
Leaves you lonely and bleeding and weak

Chorus
You're standing in the fork in the road
Unsure of just which way to go
To the right, to the left
Choosing life, choosing death
Just standing in the fork in the road

But I know a way that you can conquer
The troubles that hold you so deep
My hope and my life is Christ Jesus
A man I would love you to meet

Chorus

For God so loved the world
That his only son He gave
And if you believe in Him
Your life he will mercifully save

Chorus

Fork in the Road (N.A.S.)

This is a song that was written by Roger Holden as a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. Many artists were used and I was the bass player. The recording was tracked and mixed at Red House Studio in Lawrence, Kansas on a very cold night in the winter of 1990.

If anyone knows the other musicians that were a part of this recording, please let me know.

Some Long Years Ago

My sound collection. 

To view the original GJ Project website, please go here: http://generationjesus.tripod.com/GJP.html

Gary Dennington

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