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by Greg

[Song For The Day] What I’m Askin’ For

Come As You Are
Come As You Are

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What I’m Askin’ For

Today’s song is one of my favorites both because of what it says and how it musically says it. The song is very sad sounding in parts, lamenting. But in the angst of that lament, the truth of God’s unchanging love for me becomes the one thing I can hold on to. We can get so confused by the stuff that happens around us, wondering, “God, do you still love me? Then why is my life falling apart?” No one has an answer for all the bad-to-horrible stuff that happens in life, but we do know and trust God’s love (for us!) is the anchor we can hold on to through any of life’s storms.

What I’m Askin’ For is a piano song, and as I said before features pretty cool dynamics. Starts and ends very quietly, but builds up in the middle… have a listen, you’ll see. And don’t miss the lyric, because it’s true. “I have known your love before – and I know it doesn’t change – I know that what I’m askin’ for – has really always been the same.” This song reminds me of the message of one of our favorite books, “He Loves Me“. Also worth checking out!


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With this being the 7th anniversary week of the release of Come As You Are, I am highlighting some of the songs we liked best from the album. All week I’ll post a song (via the magic of Grooveshark.com) that you can listen to, and a link to purchase the song or album from iTunes or us. You don’t have to buy it… since you can just listen to the whole thing right here at GregsHead.net … but if you don’t have the album, we have a bunch of CDs sitting in boxes that would be better off sitting in your music player of choice. 🙂

by Greg

[Song For The Day] Hide

Come As You Are
Come As You Are

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Hide
Today’s song is one of the most rockin’ tunes we’ve ever recorded. (Though some on our Christmas album do rival Hide’s rockin-ness…) The idea behind the song comes from several places in scripture, but one that sticks out in my head is Hebrews 4, where it says since Jesus was tempted in every way like we are, we know we can come to him when we need him most. Lots of things compete for our attention, for our hearts… not all of them are good for us. Sometimes we just need to “Hide”.

Hide features Mike Muscarella on the electric guitar (several layers of them!) and Joe Manuel on harmonica. We had fun recording this one, and hope you’ll have fun listening to it. 🙂


LISTEN HERE (for RSS feed only) | lyrics @ basicmm.com

With this being the 7th anniversary week of the release of Come As You Are, I am highlighting some of the songs we liked best from the album. All week I’ll post a song (via the magic of Grooveshark.com) that you can listen to, and a link to purchase the song or album from iTunes or us. You don’t have to buy it… since you can just listen to the whole thing right here at GregsHead.net … but if you don’t have the album, we have a bunch of CDs sitting in boxes that would be better off sitting in your music player of choice. 🙂

by Greg

[Song For The Day] My Visible, See-Through Friend

Come As You Are
Come As You Are

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With this being the 7th anniversary week of the release of Come As You Are, I am highlighting some of the songs we liked best from the album. All week I’ll post a song (via the magic of Grooveshark.com) that you can listen to, and a link to purchase the song or album from iTunes or us. You don’t have to buy it… since you can just listen to the whole thing right here at GregsHead.net … but if you don’t have the album, we have a bunch of CDs sitting in boxes that would be better off sitting in your music player of choice. 🙂

My Visible, See-Through Friend
Today’s song is about how we know God. We don’t see/touch/smell/hear him the same way we do our other relationships, and yet… we know he is there. We know Him. I wrote this song – just kinda poured out of me – during a time when I felt like other relationships had failed me badly, and I was really beat down in life. Piano is the main instrument in the song, and the vocals and vocal harmonies stand out. The lyric reminds us that not even though we don’t see God with our eyes, we know he is there by using a different set of eyes, and seeing all he has done and is doing for and around us.


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by Greg

[Song For The Day] You Listen To Me

Come As You Are
Come As You Are

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With this being the 7th anniversary week of the release of Come As You Are, I am highlighting some of the songs we liked best from the album. All week I’ll post a song (via the magic of Grooveshark.com) that you can listen to, and a link to purchase the song or album from iTunes or us. You don’t have to buy it… since you can just listen to the whole thing right here at GregsHead.net … but if you don’t have the album, we have a bunch of CDs sitting in boxes that would be better off sitting in your music player of choice. 🙂

You Listen To Me
Today’s song is a song about who we are to God. It’s a fun guitar-driven song, with a great d’jembe track and other fun percussion. The lyric reminds us that not only does God hear us when we ask him for stuff, but he listens and often changes things. A fun song musically, and a fun reminder of just how much God loves you and me.


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by Greg

[Song For The Day] God Knows

Come As You Are
Come As You Are

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With this being the 7th anniversary week of the release of Come As You Are, I mentioned that we Campbells decided to move that album into our Currently Playing playlist on our iPod. It was fun to hear some of those songs again. Not only were the recordings better than I remembered (you always tend to remember the parts you wish you had done better…) it was fun to talk about what the songs said about who God is, too. Before each song I’d say to the kids, “OK kids, listen to the words and then at the end you can tell us what you learned about God from the song.” It was really cute (and awesome) to hear their answers!

I thought it would be fun to highlight some of the songs we liked best from our recent listen. All week I’ll post a song (via the magic of Grooveshark.com) that you can listen to, and a link to purchase the song or album from iTunes or us. You don’t have to buy it… since you can just listen to the whole thing right here at GregsHead.net … but if you don’t have the album, we have a bunch of CDs sitting in boxes that would be better off sitting in your music player of choice. 🙂

Enjoy the first installment (which is also the first song I ever wrote!) … God Knows.


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by Greg

Come As You Are: Seven Years Later!!

basic: Come As You AreCome As You Are
13 Tracks
Released Aug 29, 2002
Retail: $15.98

Available at:
basicmm.com | iTunes | Amazon (CD or MP3) | CDBaby.com | Village Bookmarket (Palmyra, NY)

(Also available in various other locations… have fun searching!)

Really hard to believe that it’s been seven years since the original run of Come As You Are CDs and tapes was “printed”. (And in other ways, seems like another life time!) In honor of the release date today we have been listening to the album in the Campbell home with the kiddos. First time several of them have really gotten to listen to the songs! It’s been fun!

And I thought maybe you might want to again, too.

If you already have the CD (or MP3s) please pop it in today and have a listen. It’s a pretty great collection of songs that remind us of how much God really loves us. Really. No matter how ugly or unloveable we may feel – even in our worst moments. The CD is appropriately named, to be sure.

Musically there are some really great moments I forgot about. Some great harmonies, fun dynamics, cool extra instruments like cello, mandolin, d’jembe… even harmonica! Slower songs, upbeat songs, songs with a cool groove. Acoustic songs, super-rockin’ “electrified” songs… and even one with just two voices and a piano.

If you haven’t ever gotten it, I really think you’ll like it. They are $10 from our website, $9.99 at iTunes … AND, if you want to get a few more CDs, you can get it for $5 at CDBaby.com (it’s part of a deal where you can get certain CDs for $5 if you buy just 3 CDs! *HINT* … we have four other CDs on their site….) 🙂

So, seven years later the songs still can be and are being enjoyed by many people around the world… and you could be one of them! Give it a listen today!

by Greg

Calling All Product Marketers and Salespeoples

After re-reading another composition (titled, “Substitutes“) that was compiled into the book There’s The Steeple… Here’s The Church that I published in 2006, I am again pondering the ways in which we can get the various products sitting in our storage areas into the hands of people who would be inspired by, be made to think by and just enjoy them.

The main way people “discovered” our creative works before was when we were touring the country and performing our music (and even speaking on occasion) at various events. This was certainly the best way. But with the addition of a child or two (or six) we have taken a major break from that and such venues are no longer an option.

We have websites. (Here and here, primarily.) We have sold our music via iTunes. That’s cool. But sitting here in my attic office are boxes and boxes of CDs, tapes (yep! we have tapes!!) and books.

So how do we get those out of storage and into grateful hands, hearts, and minds? Any ideas?

I’d be willing to listen to any ideas as I really do think people will still enjoy any and all of our products. We have 5 different albums of our original music (well, one is a Christmas CD with mostly original arrangements of familiar songs) and I have three books of collections of writings that are mostly short anecdotal writings on various life topics that will make you smile, and often make you think.

If you are a marketing or sales wizard, please drop me a line and let me know what you think might work. You can leave a comment here at this post, too. Any and all ideas are welcome 🙂

If you’re interested in getting your own copy, click the links above, or you can search for our stuff at Amazon.com as well… usually better to just buy from us at basicmm.com or, for just the books, here at gregshead.net/bookstore.

Thanks in advance for your help!

by Greg

Christmas Music

‘Tis the season… Christmas music is back in regular rotation on our iPod and iTunes players. Aside from our Christmas CD (which hopefully by now you have heard of) I uploaded a playlist today of my favorite stuff from our library. Really like MercyMe The Christmas Sessions, and Steven Curtis Chapman’s second Christmas album All I Really Want For Christmas. And ours, of course. 🙂

Check out the cool iMix I posted at the iTunes Store:
Favorite Christmas Music (click that link)

In the meantime, I did add a cool feature to our Christmas page this year. There is a Tell-A-Friend form. You can spread the word about the God Came Christmas album … or just buy it as presents for your friends and family. 🙂

This blog is quiet now… but it will pick up again once Bills season is over. Which could be tomorrow. 🙂

Merry Christmas… more soon.

by Greg

Free Derek Webb Album – The Ringing Bell

If you’re a fan of Derek Webb, chances are you already have this album. But, if you’re a Derek Webb fan with very limited funds (like me) then perhaps you were waiting for something like this to come along.

I got an email from the DW camp yesterday telling me I could get the album The Ringing Bell for FREE if I just tell three friends about NoiseTrade.com, the site that is offering this free download deal. So… I gave it a try, and am enjoying my new album right now! 🙂

There are many more artists offering their music this way at the site linked above, but you can use the handy-dandy widget at the top of this post to email some friends, and get yourself the Derek Webb album in your email box. Fun!

Enjoy, and spread the word!