Song of the Week Year 1

[Mike and Lisa Tracy]

With the song that will be sent out this coming Thursday, we will finish the first year of the Song of the Week. This still is kind of amazing to me since I had not really started out to do it. Last fall I responded to people asking me for Lisa's music. I finally decided to limit it to one song per week so I could keep track of what songs I had sent out. Additionally - since Lisa and I have decided to not use internet access from our home, I do all of this from my office and even though I am self-employed, I still have to get some work done! One song per week keeps it manageable.

From the first week when I sent a song to two people this little endeavor has grown. I now send out songs to well over 200 people each week. Both Lisa and I are really gratified that her music is blessing people. From time to time some of you have sent notes back about the songs. Every one of them has been printed off so that I can take them home for Lisa to read. We have kept every one of the notes as well - they have been a real blessing and encouragement to us.

Music distribution has changed a lot over the past decade. We had offers to help us set up a website so that people could download her songs; we checked out sites like "CDBaby" and others. Lisa and I decided that we didn't want or need to make a commercial venture of this which is why we do it the way that we are. A month or two into the first year, it became apparent that people enjoyed getting these each week. One of our goals became to get all of her previously recorded songs out in the first year (with a couple of exceptions to that - songs that we are not going to send out). Additionally, we decided to get songs that have never been recorded or released ready to add to the distribution list.
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In December 2010 we met with Bill Niemi at Euphonic Studio in Mount Vernon IA. This is only a 20 minute drive from our home so it is easy to get to. We hit it off with Bill (and his wife Lori) right away, and since he has his services reasonably priced, we began to move ahead with getting songs recorded. Some of you may have been surprised at the number of songs that Lisa has written and you haven't even heard them all yet! The second year begins in October and some of the songs will begin to be repeats. I will try to update and add to most of the song notes that went out.

As we go into the second year of this - if you have all of Lisa's music that you want and would like to be taken off of the distribution list, just let me know. I haven't told anyone who currently gets the songs - I won't tell anyone who doesn't get them. I will say that there is a wide variety of affiliation with different Christian organizations (or none at all) represented by our distribution list. I appreciate each and every one of you. Now - I will get this week's song sent out and then on to year two!See More