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  • Genre: Acoustic / Christian

    Location GALENA, Illinois, US

    Profile Views: 9358

    Last Login: 8/22/2011

    Member Since 12/4/2007

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vZXpmb2xrLmNvbS9hdWRpby9jaGFyaXR5cm91c2U=

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    ..I Am With You...... .. .. .. .. .. .. ............ ....Myspace Layouts.. at Pimp-My-Profile.com / ..Turquoise swirl.. .."I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality." ~H.A. Overstreet Music fills the silence inconspicuously while we walk down grocery store aisles. It calls out to us in nature in the form of birds chirping gloriously, brooks babbling, trees swaying in the breeze, and frogs croaking. One song can bring back a flood of memories. From your first Happy Birthday to the first time you understood the beautiful lyrics in Amazing Grace. From football games to first dates, it is all written on our hearts and minds. Music is an outward expression of our individual souls. Notes woven together in a tapestry of melodies have forever left a thumbprint on humanity. We curl up with a song when we are heartbroken. We sing from the rooftops when we are in love! We shout joyous melodies when we are praising our Lord! Music brings us together. It is a way we can say, "You too? I thought I was the only one!" We can cross cultures and learn about the world through song. It can break racial and ethnic boundaries when we step inside the notes and let them teach us something; something about history, nations and people. This, written by Charity Rouse explains her love relationship with music. Music to Rouse is all of these things and does all of these things and she shares it all on her first release, Process. Charity grew up in Eastern Iowa in a small town where music was limited to singing in the church choir or at a school concert. Even from a young age it called her. Constantly beckoning her to come and sit at the piano for hours singing, playing and making up songs. Popping into her head while playing tag with her brothers or friends on her parent’s farm. It has always been a part of her life. Charity Rouse writes about complex themes: heaven, broken lives, friends, feelings. Expressions turn, feelings join, songs sail. You may find yourself singing along even if you have never heard the melody before. Charity writes with an art and represents vignettes viewed from a distance, of light-hearted introductions between people and lives and of highways that lead from wrong choices to right choices. She was raised in a small town on a small farm that borders cornfields on the Eastern Iowa border, separated by the muddy Mississippi from the flatter terrain of the state of Illinois. The name of the town is Clarence, a sister city to the one in New York of the same name. She left when she was 18. A great many of the people she knew and grew up with also left. But a great many did not leave the lifestyle of the small town or for that matter of any town you might see in America today: the drinking, the partying, the lack of faith in anything substantial or tangible. The album that she made, “Process”, is partially their story; the eager desires they used to hold and the hopelessness of choices made. It is a record that intrusively looks into our souls and our friends’ souls, mourns the fate of friends and family who are not intending to be obedient to God or those who are bold and insolent in their state of impenitence. It is an album of longing and eager desire for souls. These songs are also a record of Rouse, of her fears of being like that, never altering or seeking to gain knowledge of her Creator. It speaks of her portions of good, her feelings and disorder without the Lord. These songs, whatever their descents, are not like anything else. They are not gospel or praise or rock or pop. They are Charity Rouse.

  • Members

    The band members for our new group First Love are: Charity Rouse, vocals and piano Melissa Fleming, vocals Jared Hendricks, vocals, acoustic and electric guitar Jay Robinson, electric guitar Aaron Sweely, vocals, bass and acoustic guitar Jeff Rouse, percussion On the recordings for my solo album Process Charity Rouse, vocals and piano Melissa Fleming, vocals Andy Steil, bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar. He also mixed and mastered all of the songs. Jeff Rouse, Djembe Neal Patel, acoustic guitar and vocals Nancy Fox, Vocals

  • Influences

    There are so many....Jennifer Knapp, Jewel, Nichole Nordeman, Evanescence, the book of Psalms, my friend Mandy Thompson-check out her website http://mandythompson.com/ , my friend and band partner Melissa Fleming, any music that has reduced me to tears

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"I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality." ~H.A. Overstreet Music fills the silence inconspicuously while we walk down grocery store aisles. It calls out to us in nature in the form of birds chirping gloriously, brooks babbling, trees swaying in the breeze, and frogs croaking. One song can bring back a flood of memories. From your first Happy Birthday to the first time you understood the beautiful lyrics in Amazing Grace. From football games to first dates, it is all written on our hearts and minds. Music is an outward expression of our individual souls. Notes woven together in a tapestry of melodies have forever left a thumbprint on humanity. We curl up with a song when we are heartbroken. We sing from the rooftops when we are in love! We shout joyous melodies when we are praising our Lord! Music brings us together. It is a way we can say, "You too? I thought I was the only one!" We can cross cultures and learn about the world through song. It can break racial and ethnic boundaries when we step inside the notes and let them teach us something; something about history, nations and people. This, written by Charity Rouse explains her love relationship with music. Music to Rouse is all of these things and does all of these things and she shares it all on her first release, Process. Charity grew up in Eastern Iowa in a small town where music was limited to singing in the church choir or at a school concert. Even from a young age it called her. Constantly beckoning her to come and sit at the piano for hours singing, playing and making up songs. Popping into her head while playing tag with her brothers or friends on her parent’s farm. It has always been a part of her life. Charity Rouse writes about complex themes: heaven, broken lives, friends, feelings. Expressions turn, feelings join, songs sail. You may find yourself singing along even if you have never heard the melody before. Charity writes with an art and represents vignettes viewed from a distance, of light-hearted introductions between people and lives and of highways that lead from wrong choices to right choices. She was raised in a small town on a small farm that borders cornfields on the Eastern Iowa border, separated by the muddy Mississippi from the flatter terrain of the state of Illinois. The name of the town is Clarence, a sister city to the one in New York of the same name. She left when she was 18. A great many of the people she knew and grew up with also left. But a great many did not leave the lifestyle of the small town or for that matter of any town you might see in America today: the drinking, the partying, the lack of faith in anything substantial or tangible. The album that she made, “Process”, is partially their story; the eager desires they used to hold and the hopelessness of choices made. It is a record that intrusively looks into our souls and our friends’ souls, mourns the fate of friends and family who are not intending to be obedient to God or those who are bold and insolent in their state of impenitence. It is an album of longing and eager desire for souls. These songs are also a record of Rouse, of her fears of being like that, never altering or seeking to gain knowledge of her Creator. It speaks of her portions of good, her feelings and disorder without the Lord. These songs, whatever their descents, are not like anything else. They are not gospel or praise or rock or pop. They are Charity Rouse. ..

Member Since:

December 04, 2007

Members:

The band members for our new group First Love are: Charity Rouse, vocals and piano Melissa Fleming, vocals Jared Hendricks, vocals, acoustic and electric guitar Jay Robinson, electric guitar Aaron Sweely, vocals, bass and acoustic guitar Jeff Rouse, percussion On the recordings for my solo album Process Charity Rouse, vocals and piano Melissa Fleming, vocals Andy Steil, bass, acoustic guitar, electric guitar. He also mixed and mastered all of the songs. Jeff Rouse, Djembe Neal Patel, acoustic guitar and vocals Nancy Fox, Vocals

Influences:

There are so many....Jennifer Knapp, Jewel, Nichole Nordeman, Evanescence, the book of Psalms, my friend Mandy Thompson-check out her website http://mandythompson.com/ , my friend and band partner Melissa Fleming, any music that has reduced me to tears

Sounds Like:

Hopefully I sound like me. Take a listen and make your own comparisons.

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