***GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED***
Winners are: Kim and Brittney! You have been sent an e-mail already so check your inbox!
If you’ve been a blog reader for the past couple of months you’ve seen my posts about using music to build spirituality (part I and part II). This is not something new or recent in my life, finding music that is uplifting and good to listen to for everyone. I even wrote about some of my experiences last year. Knowing how I feel about music . . . . . have I got a treat for you today!
Have you heard of The Nashville Tribute Band? Its a group of LDS musicians – most based in Nashville – who collaborate together to pay tribute to parts of our Mormon history or faith. Their first album, “Joseph: a Nashville Tribute to the Prophet” is one of the best-selling LDS albums ever. Their second album is “Trek: A Nashville Tribute to the Mormon Pioneers,” You can listen to snippets of songs from their albums here.
The Nashville Tribute Band is releasing a new CD, a Nashville Tribute to the Missionaries, called “The Work.” The songs on the album cover all aspects of missionary work, from a young missionary praying to know for himself if serving a mission is what the Lords wants him to do to a mother praying for her son’s success and protection as a missionary to an elderly sister serving a mission in the ‘twilight of her years.’ The CD won’t be released until August 4th when The Nashville Tribute Band kicks off the release with a concert in Sandy, UT. You can read all about the concert here. (Valerie, you would love it!) Other concerts will be held:
August 5: Twin Falls, ID
August 6: Rexburg, ID
August 12 – 13: Grants Pass, OR
But guess, what? Two of you can win the CD and receive it BEFORE it goes on sale! I have two of them right here in front of me – sent straight from Camille T. of R Legacy Entertainment. Well, actually I have three but the third one is mine. 🙂 I have listened to it several times this week driving the long distance to and from town taking little Ganache in for bilirubin checks for his jaundice. I love it! The songs have a good beat, the lyrics aren’t overpowered by the instruments, and of course, the message of each song bears testimony of some aspect of missionary work.
I grew up listening to Peter, Paul, and Mary sing “Children Go Where I Send Thee” every Christmas. {My dad was a big fan of theirs} so imagine my surprise when the first song on the album is the whole band singing “Children Go Where I Send Thee” in tight harmonies but with a Mormon twist on the lyrics.
“Children, go where I send thee
How will I send thee?
Oh I’m gonna send thee three by three
Three for the tree in Lehi’s dream
Two for Alma and Amulek
One for the little bitty baby
Born, born, born in Bethlehem”
It is my favorite song of the album, probably because of the memories of singing the song growing up, but also because of the harmony. LOVE IT! Another of my favorites from “The Work” is ‘Today is the Day’ performed by David Osmond. Here’s part of the chorus,
“Today is the day I will open my mouth
I will shout from the rooftops
The truth will come out
And I’m sharing my soul in the words that I speak
With the love that has made me this way
Yes today is the day I proclaim what I believe”
Truly, that is what the missionaries do on a daily basis – proclaim what they believe to the world. And as readers of this blog know, something I’m not ashamed to do here either. ☺
You can get a feel for their music from this single released from the new album, called I Was Born.
How to Enter:
- Just leave ONE comment about what you’d like to see Nashville Tribute Band pay tribute to next. {Maybe we’ll be able to give them ideas!}
- PLEASE leave your e-mail so I can contact you if you win. The winners will be chosen through random.org.
- Giveaway ends on Wednesday, July 27th at 5 pm PST.
Good luck!
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Hi Cocoa, I love your blog, although I never leave a comment. First I would like to congratulate you on the birth of you beautiful son! Thank you for sharing the things you do. I would love for the Nashville Tribute Band to pay tribute to all those modernday pioneers, living all over the world!
Naomi (from the Netherlands)
My girls are getting old enough to want to listen to ‘real’ music, so this would be great to win! I think they should pay tribute to motherhood (always need positive messages about motherhood)! katiecrews111 @ gmail . com
I’ve been WAITING for this to come out! I just love the other two.
Maybe a tribute to the Second Coming and all of the things leading up to it!
We especially love their tribute to Joseph.
I think a tribute to moms would be good – or converts.
I hope Ganache’s numbers come up so you can rest and enjoy him.
My son loved listening to the son you linked up. I think I would love to hear them play a tribute to the primary kids. Primary songs and songs about children always get to me. Thanks for the giveaway!
nicolerichins(at)gmail(dot)com
This sounds like an awesome CD! I just sent my oldest out into the missionfield, so I have a soft place in my heart for missionaries. I think it would be great if they did a tribute to mothers; young and old. (approvalbyu@yahoo.com)
I would love to hear them pay tribute to families. 🙂 My e-mail address is awholenewworld@hotamil.com Thanks for holding this giveaway! 🙂
I grew up listening that that PPM song too…and my Mom always had us sing it together in the car!
Next tribute should be to family and each member/force that makes family great!
jocelyn dot christensen at gmail dot com
Thanks for bringing these to my attention – I hadn’t heard of them before. I like the ideas of moms, but parents/families would be better. To instill in our children the absolute importance of families. How about the Proclamation to the World in song?! Primary kids is another great idea….so are teenagers who are making the important decisions to serve missions, go to college, date, etc. (gentleartofchaos (at) hotmail (dot) com)
Sounds like a great CD! I’d love a tribute to moms! 🙂
Sorry I haven’t had time to comment for a while. I’ve been moving, so life has been crazy! Congratulations on baby #9! 🙂
Oh, my email – ldslaurie@gmail.com
Hi, I have never heard of “The National Tribute Band” before. My son is leaving on his mission soon and this would be a great gift for him. The first thought I had for their next tribute was Prophets, or modern day Prophets. I really like the idea of a tribute to families though.
Congratulations on the newest member of your family!
I love the idea of a tribute to families. Thank you for the opportunity to win this great CD!
jhyden@new.rr.com
How about a album about families–then it can cover moms, dads, and children, maybe even extended family. kristybitter @ gmail.com
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Sorry I forgot my e-mail. lafingkids@gmail.com
Thanks!
I first heard them at a TOFW conference where they performed music from the Tribute to Joseph. I was lucky enough to experience their concert twice.
I also purchased the Tribute to the Pioneers which is awesome as well of course I have my favorites 🙂 Somewhere there’s a mountain is forever sketched on my heart.
Please enter me in your giveaway. The release of this CD is perfect timing as we are working on my son’s mission papers. 🙂 Thanks.
My idea for another tribute …. hmm I like the idea about a tribute to the family and also a tribute to various prophets. I would love for my kids to go around singing about Ammon or Moroni 🙂
I had never heard of them before you posted them last week. Their music is beautiful! Thank you for sharing!!
I think a tribute to the military. There are so many soldiers… and military family that are LDS that can be uplifted for the thankless job that comes with the military.
Moms
Thank you for sharing this music with us, I’m glad to know about it! I would love music about staying strong in the Gospel.
teenagers
It think a tribute to women.
wendylocey[at]gamil[dot]com
Motherhood. My email is cowpoke22@yahoo.com
I think they should do a tribute to the family. We so desperately need strong families in the world right now! ~ Yvette (1fairmaiden@gmail.com)
I like the idea of a tribute to the importance of families. This music is good thanks for all the posts on what you were working on with music, we have been trying to teach our oldest teenager that there is a lot of junk in his music. So thanks for all your hard work and your little one is so adorable.:)
Oooo, I have never heard of this group. (although I am behind on the “mormon” music, I am just now catching up…)
I would love to see a tribute to families. I really should read the comments and see if there are better ideas, but families are on my mind lately. 😉
I like the idea of a tribute to family: Fathers, mothers and children.
Wow, everyone has great ideas for another tribute album! Moms, families, teens, any would be great! I love Nashville Tribute Band
koleke_t@yahoo.com
May I suggest a tribute to One of the founding fathers, as with out the great nation, we would not have the blessings of freedoms to worship as we see fit.
Thank you,
kathleenlhoffman@gmail.com
Jason I love your Tributes to Joseph Smith, The Pioneers & I am positive I will love the Missionaries CD, maybe a Tribute to the people behind the music, the awesome artists who give their voices to sing your uplifting music
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that they have a new album!!!!! I think having a tribute for families, and maybe how each person plays an important part- so it could be toward moms, dads, the teens, the children, the grandparents, even military families… it’s really getting harder to keep everyone focused on what we are supposed to be focusing on, and with the tumultuous events that are happening daily, it is more important than ever to figure out how to do that… (pilotwife5@gmail.com)
Love the Nashville Tribute Band and there Concerts are amazing too. I would love to see them do a Tribute to Christ. There are so many great songs about him, but not a tribute to him. But what ever CD they put out, it is always amazing. kimee05@gmail.com
I love the Nashvile Tribute Band!!! and I think that they need to sing about the temples that are all over the world!! I always feel the spirit when they are on stage performing they are great!!!
peterson-family@juno.com thanks Dale
I would love to see a tribute to women or teachers… I love their first 2 CDs and can’t wait for this one! (email missplott (at) gmail (dot) com)
I think a tribute to survivors would be an amazing thing–to people who have risen above trials and hardships through support of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The trials might be physical, intellectual, spiritual, social, or other.
deshawn (dot) smith (at) gmail (dot) com
I really want to win their CD! I’m hoping to go to their concert in Twin Falls and it would be great to hear their CD before and know the songs already!
I think a tribute to mothers and motherhood would be great. Hope I win!
mcole@vandals.uidaho.edu
You have a great blog…thanks for being willing to share!
I also love NTB songs. I have often thought a tribute to our leaders would be great. Stake leaders, Bishoprics and auxiliary presidencies do so much and they are on the front lines, so to speak! Service is key in our church and I can imagine there are alot of songs to be written about the opportunities out there!!
My email is sharon.1112@hotmail.com
Thanks again!
I absolutely love NTB. They are an amazing group of artists.
I would like a tribute to converts. Their questions, doubts and struggles to accept new doctrine,and their journey as their testimonies grow and their lives are blessed.
My email address is inmansnook@comcast.net.
Thanks! Can’t wait to see them in Sandy.
You know it wasn’t until I was at Ricks College that I found out that there was LDS music!
How about a tribute to Emma Smith?
diddlyscrap@gmail.com
I’m a huge fan! I’d love to see them cut an album on temples and temple work. Ben Jensen Jbenjamj@yahoo.com
I and my family, wife and two kids, have been waiting for this album to come out for some time now. We listen to their other albums ever Sunday morning as we get ready for church. I would love to hear them do their next album on families. I can only imagine how good the album would turn out. Congrats to Nashville Tribute Band on this album and thank you for blessing our lives with your music.
Scott Smith
scottnjamiesmith@gmail.com
Our family LOVES NTB and has been counting down for the release of “THE WORK”. I would love to hear an album dedicated to prophets.
Heiditucker@sbcglobal.net
I think this is an amazing song and I would like to hear them praise our latter day prophets they are so hardworking yet happy! morris.maddie@gmail.com
I’d have to say families. It is always something the we need to be reminded to cherish because it is so near to us.
families.fathers. Congrats on Ganache, too! So sweet!
I am really excited to see their cd come out. I saw them in concert last year and it was awesome!!! I would love to see a focus on youth, the young men and young women programs. brittmedanger at yahoo dot com
I just love this group. Brad is from my home town and I always love it when they do concerts here! I also think that strengthening the family should be the theme of their next project. I’ve been looking forward to this CD coming out and I’d love to win it!! Thanks
Dana Wright
wrightfamily@cableone.net
I think it would be phenomenal for them to do a Tribute for “The Family”. I have never heard of them before, so I am enjoying this new discovery! 🙂 Thanks, Cocoa!
Oh yeah: libermama at gmail dot com
Congratulations on another blessing from heaven! Thank you for a wonderfully uplifting blog, I love it! I just love this group! I would love a tribute to mothers, fathers, families, and prophets. Have a happy day 🙂
bunny987@gmail dot com
I love these CDs! I love the ideas everyone has shared! Family, Mothers, Teens, Converts, Prophets, etc! I was thinking a Tribute to Relief Society would be great! From Emma down to present day!
greenerjunk at gmail com
I first saw this band at Time Out for Women 3 years ago. Love their music! A tribute to families would be wonderful! Thanks for the giveaway!
stevenandmarielle at gmail dot com
Love these guys. They (Jason, Dan and Ron)were here in Kitchener a year ago and just blew everyone’s mind and grew their spirit’s that day. I get emails quite often from attendees asking when this new CD will come out. A year later and i am THRILLED, so much so that I found a cheap flight out of Detroit and will be attending the Sandy show. My one week of vacation and all the money I have and I am not regretting the choice at all. My son just went into the MTC a month ago so, while I am listening to the CD release concert with my son just a few miles away, learning spanish. If I did win the CD I would drop it off to him as he will be able to listen to it in Chile. I am also going to give him my copies of Joseph and The Trek. If he couldn’t listen to anything else, I would choose this for him.
Then he can share it with his companions and it will come back to Jason manyfold. And yes…I will still have enough money to buy my own copy. (my son would NOT get the autographed copy, should i get it signed. he he
I love him but not THAT much! 🙂
Enjoy life and chocolate and the Tribute series.
As for subject matter ahhhhhhhh….singles, Mom’s, Dad’s kids with or without mom’s and Dad’s, those who’s families have shunned them, widows, priesthood leaders,their wives who are the church ‘widows”, women who will never marry, divorced ones, handicapped social, mentally, physically, the resilient ones, who have little chance of the regular social life and hopes and dreams we have, parentless children, parents of children who have wandered……..A Tribute to Us.
Would someone like ME make it past ‘my’ Sugar Creek. 🙂
Thanks for letting me think about this.
Sue Umbach
sueumbach@rogers.com
If I win I’m giving it to Sue – who has known me since I was born (crazy bumping into you on this blog!) and is a great lady! My first thought was a tribute to temple work of all sorts – building, family history, your own work, across the world, etc. I love the idea of children and family. Maybe also scripture story heroes. Whatever it is, I’m sure it’ll be good!
I would love to see an album to the modern
Prophets. They have done so many amazing things. I love there music and would love this as part of my collection. My address is annmariepond@hotmail.com.
Thanks for offering this!
I have a missionary out serving right now!!! This touches my heart so much 🙂 I’d love to win this!! Maybe they could do a tribute on family, or history! 🙂
ashj.allen(at)yahoo(dot)com
OHHHHHHH! I would love to see an album on families, too…but I think it was already suggested. 🙂
What a neat giveaway! Thanks for the chance!
Deanna
rdpoulsen at gmail dot com
Hi Cocoa,
I’m glad he got the name Ganache, that was my vote : )
How about a tribute album to the women of the gospel, past and present. I think there is more than enough to make an album.
Thanks for this giveaway
sherilsl@yahoo.com
Jason, How about a tribute to Isaiah. Any help with that content would be awesome! Okay, seriously….I’d love to hear more songs about our current struggles today. More about the ways we Latter Day Saints fight Satan today. By Troy Wood
Troy.wood@hcahealthcare.com
I think a tribute to our children and youth might be kind of neat. Or latter-day prophets. Or temples. Definitely temples. I’m crossing my fingers hard on this one, my brother just entered the MTC bound for Paraguay and this would be fun to share with him 🙂
I love it, can’t wait to get one.. My idea is to do one on the whole family, mom,dad ,kids ,grandpa,grandma, uncles, aunts,ect also adopted, kids ,parents ect I hope can get my drafted thanks for sharing
I love the Nashville Tribute Band! I’d love to see them do something related to women in the Church–or even Young Women. Actually, Primary would be fun, too.
I love the Nashville Tribute Band!! I would love to see them do a tribute to mothers or maybe Temples or our modern-day Prophets. those one would be awesome!
aimstar@tds.net
thanks
Brooke
Tribute to famiiles would be awesome!! thethingsilovemost@gmail.com
I was stumped at first but after reading all the comments, I have to say that I think a tribute to Christ would be amazing! I have the Joseph album but guess I have fallen behind the time with the Trek one. 🙂
melissa (dot) hatch (at) rocketmail (dot) com
I think it would be great to see a tribute to families.
If ever there were a time when people needed to be reminded of the importance of a Godly family, it would be now.
Thanks,
Jessica
jadenyu at yahoo dot com
I love this band as well! My DH’s MTC companion and his father (Trumans) are in the band. I see his companion in the pic. 🙂 DH got a demo cd of the Joseph Tribute during their missions before it became available and we’ve been fans ever since. 🙂 I’d love to see a tribute to parents/families, BoM prophets, NT apostles, or women in the scriptures. Thanks for doing this! I can’t wait to hear the new cd!
pursuinghealthyliving at gmail dot com
Hi! I too love your blog and NTB! My children and I have been counting down the days until The Work’s release. Can’t wait to hear it! We think NTB should pay tribute to the Relief Society/Motherhood. ppmsister@gmail.com
There are so many great ideas already listed, and I’m sure the NTB will eventually get to them all, but after careful thought, I’m gonna have to go with the ultimate, the Savior. If there is a time we need to ever so strongly declare ever so loudly and proudly that Latter Day Saints are Christians at the heart, the time is now. I would love to see the NTB remix some of the hymns and children’s songs dedicated to the Savior. The Savior is my vote. ; )
I forgot to leave my email, I’m the one with the vote for the Savior, hymns and children’s songs. audreyboone@gmail.com
Oh this is awesome! I am not a huge fan of country music, but this is gorgeous and I would love to win;)
We’re heading back to Georgia for Christmas..so maybe there!?
Heaven on Earth- A tribute to the Temples
Laughter- A tribute to the Children
Those are what I thought of… there was no way I was going to read 70 cranially charged comments, so I don’t know if I’m repeating anyone else’s ideas. Thank you for sharing. I love music too!
Briana
bbergener1@gmail.com
Families. Definitely families.
eric_danielle at netzero dot com
I’ve been waiting for this CD to release ever since I found out that it was in the making more than a year and a half ago! I’d love to get my hands on it ASAP! 🙂
The topic of families was also the first thing I thought of- looks like a popular idea though! I brainstormed a little more and am thinking something along the New Testament lines would be great- all about Christ’s life and the parables he shared, etc.
Here’s hoping I hear back from you! natalie.n.porter(at)gmail(dot)com
We like the Joseph one. I think they should do primary songs
I think anything they have done has been great but I have work in the young women’s program for 10 wonderful years now up until about 6 months ago.. so my suggest is something for the youth because that where my heart will always be we have some of the most awesome youth!!!!
lesliedjoyner@embarqmail.com
I would love to see a tribute to moms and all the hard work we do!
I think motherhood would be a good tribute to make or raising kids. crystalandmark at gmail dot com
I would really like to see some tributes to our Latter-Day Prophets.
My children enjoy learning about them, and putting things to music is a great way for them to learn- without KNOWING they are being taught!
Anita.Sharp@gmail.com
Parenthood–yes Moms are special, but Dads are just as awesome.
bethhughes37 at gmail.com