so yeah....yesterday after church, i met up with matt and mark, and we drove the 4 hours to st louis to see the derek webb show...so the trip was fine....no probs...lots o good music on the wall...good phone talks with kate, jess and jerr

we got into town and had pizza...i couldn't eat much cause i was too excited (this always happens)...actually we drove by the church first.....enter the part where dena begins to get so excited she needs to pee....

and then we drove down the street...back to the church (after pizza)....it was at this stinkin awesomely BEAUTIFUL presbyterian church...seriously, yo...the archetechture was off the hook...wow...ne who...so we came in late (they told us the wrong time) to the evening service...and i had to get up in the middle of the service cause i had to pee so bad...hehe...and when i got back, the service was over....so then i got a huge rush, realzing the concert would be starting soon....which made me almost pee my pants, even though i had just gone pee in the bathroom

so....we moved to the front pew of this church....and then i decided to call jerry, cause i had talked to him earlier about the show, and he said he would be up for hearing as much of it as possible...so...i called him to make sure he would be around soon....and so i was freaking out on the phone, so excited...and JERRY starts getting all excited too....lol....which just rocks my house off cause i mean....i am used to going to concerts with people who are just as excited/have as much energy as i do (or nearly)....so, the fact that jerry was getting all into it, and he wasn't even there, was stinkin cool...(mark and matt were sooooooooo subdued)...so...it was awesome to have that excitement to be able to bounce off someone else.....so...i take my phone and walk around this random side hallway, while talking to him...and keep getting more and more excited...and i'm like, hopping up and down the hall way...lol....constantly feeling like my stomach is gonna make me have to run to the bathroom (and yes, i don't just mean having to pee...hehe)...and then we talked about DW's show on jan 4 in Branson MO and how jerr and jess should come down for that...and that was just a wacked out convo.....but that was cool, nonetheless.....and discussed the high price of plane tickets and the insanity of all that....so...jerry was like "hoooooly crap. I'm even gonna PEE my pants...and i'm not even there"...lol..it was just great. and something about running to the bathroom every five minutes, assuming i would have the phone up for him to hear a lot of the show....lol..good times...ok...so we worked out this signal that i would use for the show...

OH! i forgot to say that when we walked into the church, there was a table set up for the merchandise, of course...and i look, and there is DW's stuff, of course...but then i look again...and there is sandra mccrackin's merch. too....hoooooooly crap. i was like *starts shaking* "oh man...they're BOTH here?! freaking a" (we later find out, that this church, was sandra's home church from when she was growing up or something...so thats why she was there too! and she has all this family there at the show...it was so cool)

ok..so i told jerr that i had asked someone about how the concert would go, and that sandra would start and that DW might do some stuff with her, and then it would just be Derek. so...our deal for the phone was this: i would call him ...and listen and wait for him to say "i can listen now" and then he would have to be absolutely SILENT cause at that time, i would put him on speaker phone, so that he could hear the show better....so yeah....

so i go in, and sit down cause the show gets ready to start...and i'm like, bouncing my leg all over because i'm so excited...hehe....and i can't sit still...so i've got the camera ready...and the phone prepared...so...out comes sandra...starts playing...and out walks derek...and dena wets herself.....immediately calls jerry....puts him on speaker....hehe....long story short....

the first song I THINK she played/they played/sang...was "Now and Then"...(you HAVE to check it out)...for real....goosebumps galore....the version on the cd (which does have derek on it, too) does it NO justice...NONE what so ever....it was so stinkin powerful....i don't know what the deal is...but they were SO right on....the way they blended, they way they just totally gelled with eacother and the music...it was sheer perfection....oh man....*shivers* seriously...esp. on the chorus of the song, ah man...thats what music is all about....those are the moments....

ok...and i think thats when it hit me how much i want to, someday, on SOME scale, be able to do music with my hypothetical husband....i'm not meaning necc. being "famous"....or even performing a real show....just....at least...doing music to some extent with him...cause...its just incredible....ahhhhhhhh...i can't even stand it....and, if you are a TRUE musician and have the musician's heart, you know EXACTLY what i'm talking about....and if you haven't experienced that love with the music, then there is no one who could describe it to you anyway.....you have to experience it first hand to know the feeling.


i would recommend going to sandra's webisite and checking out the lyrics to that song...here is her site: www.sandramccrackin.com

enough details about music.

i didn't think to write down HER setlist, till after most of the songs...so...i THINK this is how it goes:

Now and Then
(there may have been a song or two in here)
Awake my Soul
Thy Mercy, Thy God
Sunday Morning
(some new song that isn't on an album telling the story of an incident with a flood in st louis and a kid who gave his life to save his brother in it)
Eve

Derek played on all of them with her..he sang harmony on some


then came derek by himself...he talked/preached truth/told stories a LOT in between the songs
the setlist:
Faith my Eyes (which just rocked my house off...cause i love that song...and i'm always sitting with my guitar, playing the chorus to that song)
She Must and Shall Go Free
Nobody Loves Me
This World
Every Grain of Sang (Bob Dylan cover)
I Repent (a new one)
Dance
Lover
Wedding Dress
Take To The World

ok..so during DW, i called Jerr several times...and he called me too....i was worried about my battery dying, DW kept talking for a long time, Jerrys' batt died (which explains all the calling and hanging up.) And for a while when i was trying to let him hear the songs, (i found this out later) Jerry was at his pastor's house...and The pastor's daughter Jessica was being FREAKING loud so i had to take him off the speaker phone...and then i kept feeling bad that he prolly couldn't hear it well...so i would put him on speaker phone for a sec, and as soon as I would, a loud female voice would emit from my phone, and matt would look at me like "what the heck" and i would have to take him off speaker again....I wanted to be like "Freaking A Jerry, keep it quiet there" but i obviously couldn't cause i had to be quiet myself, and we had already discussed the pretenses for me having him on speaker phone, before the show started. So that kind of sucked...but oh well..

oh..hehe....earlier when we had talked, jerry was like "i just want to hear Derek say "whore"..." lol...so....it just so happened, that one of the two parts of songs that got recorded oh his voice mail (while his batt was dead) was "wedding dress"..so..sure enough, jerry now has "whore" on his voice mail message to play back any time he wants to hear it...lol

haha....what was that about *jerry in a girlie, overly excited voice* "I LOVE YOU DEREK!"?....HAHA...on man, that made me laugh......

so i actually got to hear the voice mail message of the song from jerry's phone today...he patched it in three way...hahah...cool cool...apprantly, he was calling his friends and having them listen too...haha...

haha...oh man....i just got a big kick out of jerry's excitement....like...after i let him hear "Dance" he goes "hooooooooly crap"...lol...and after one song, i still had him on speaker phone, and everyone was clapping really loud...and RIGHT as everyone stopped clapping, jerry says something really loud ...lol....oops....its funny now....

ok yeah...so thats all

we had to leave right after, cause we had the 4 hr drive, and both the guys had to work early this am....so we didn't meet either one of them...but thats ok...cause the concert rocked...oh yes...and ...its the first concert i have been to where it wasn't a "standing up" sort of thing....how bizarre

after the show, i bought both of sandras cds and a really awesome girl tee thats kinda marronish/burgandy....its so cool...i will try to show you what is written out on the front...ok...so every second row of text is a diff color...so the odd numbered rows are in the large, strawberry pink, bold, capital letters...and the even numbered rows of text are in white, smaller, non capital letters...it goes a little something like this...if you can visualize..:

SHE MUST
for the believer, truth is
AND SHALL
freedom. Even truth that
GO FREE
is hard to hear. derek webb


and the words "derek webb" are even a little bit smaller
the letting is really cool...cause the letters in capital pink are all aged looking...like the ink is kinda scratchy, you know? and all the letters are kinda abstract with not perfect lines or form...if that made any sense

so....then we drove home...which went well....and the concert was awesome...and i slept part of the way in the car...and i had this really bizarre dream

a HUGE shout out to matt and mark, who just rock...cause they let me ride with them....they drove the whole way...and financed the trip..for real....rock on...

the last thought of the day: i sat down at the piano today...and started learning "sunday morning" ( i got inturrupted)...so...i need to finish figuring it out....that is an amazing song...so someday...if any of you want to hear it...you should hear it...its all ....traditional blues ...or something like that....its just raw and beautiful....on the cd, its totally just acoustic piano...but last night they did it on guitar, which also rocked...so...hear the song...it will change your life...and you will definately pee your pants

the end....actually...here are the lyrics for ya...but....these lyrics seperated from the music...is just a crime...


Sunday Morning


Driving on the faded mid-western dotted line
with nothing but the fighting wind to slowly count the time
racing with the fences as they guard their farms
here I come, there I go, help me lay down my arms

Just as I am, you rush in without a warning
I didn`t think that you would want to come to this place
and make it feel like a sunday morning.

I have been a blacksmith with the tools in my hands
with plastered eyes I build the lie and cannot understand
feeding on the ashes of a deluded heart
but in the place of dust and death I see you have come this far

And just as I am...

You were the first, and you`ll be the last
and like a cloud on the Chicago skyline
these things are past

Maybe it`s the way your love swells beneath my skin
or maybe it`s because my senses are full again
maybe it`s because I can`t quite mark the source
or maybe I`m afraid to let it run it`s course...