Country song written after asking some writer friends to give me an opening line from which to write a song. "I'm afraid you have me confused with someone else" was the one that grabbed my attention. I built the song from the idea that we all express regret at some point in our lives and often when we look back, we see ourselves as different people either because of that moment or to live above that moment. 

I also believe in redemption and wanted to capture a repentant heart seeking to right a wrong from their past. And that in retrospect, the redeemed person can be transformed in such a way that they don't even recognize that person they once were.

I'm Not Him

Based on Psalm 33:20-22 from the English Standard Bible (ESV), this short song is designed to assist in Scripture memorization as part of the "Songs that Sustain Us" sermon series at Christ Community Church in Leawood, Kansas.

Psalm 33:20-22 (Our Soul Waits)

Closing scene from the soundtrack from "The Tree," a feature film by Stephen Wallace Pruitt and Mary Settle Pruitt. Film score by Randy Bonifield.

The Tree

End credit music from the soundtrack from "The Tree," a feature film by Stephen Wallace Pruitt and Mary Settle Pruitt. Film score by Randy Bonifield.

End Credits

From "The Beauty of Weakness" project released in 2018. Listen to or buy the entire recording at https://randybonifield.bandcamp.com/

The Beauty of Weakness

Everything to Me

Wait

Excerpts from the soundtrack from "The Land," a feature film by Stephen Wallace Pruitt and Mary Settle Pruitt. Film score by Randy Bonifield.

15 A Strip Of Land

11 Leave The Truck On

07 Impatiens

01 Opening

04 We'll Get Through It Somehow

A piano-playing, singer/songwriter and film composer from humble roots and the grand musical heritage of Kansas City, Randy Bonifield's recent work reflects a wide range of musical exploration – a song cycle of previously unreleased songs from his vault in 2013, a liturgical journey through Lent in 2018, and two film scores from successful independent films on the festival circuit in 2017 and 2019. While these projects represent the breadth of his work (or artistic wanderlust, one might say), Bonifield has devoted most of his career to the world of sacred artistry and liturgy, serving as a pastor of congregational worship for the last fifteen years in the southern part of the Kansas City area. 

Loves: family, baseball, brass bands, freshly tuned pianos, old hymnals, the sound of a record needle when it first makes contact with an LP, bunting against the shift, anything with a 6/8 gospel groove, deep conversation over a warm latte, Jesus, and a good game of catch. Not in that particular order.

Influences: Bruce Hornsby, Ray Charles, Keith Green, Billy Joel, Richard Page, Keb' Mo', William Himes, James Curnow, Rob Mathes, James Newton Howard, Thomas Newman, Howard Shore, Constance Cherry, N.T. Wright, James K.A. Smith, Buck O'Neil, Robert and Ruth Bonifield, cool Summer nights, a melancholy soul, a really good story, and the love of a girl named Wendy.

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