Pre-Order Our New "Overflow" Album!

Pre-Order Our New "Overflow" Album!

Just go to the Bandcamp player on this blog page and press "pre-order" and you will get a download of "Sing to Jesus". We are reducing the price to $5, but you can contribute more if you wish. (The download will be zipped.)

We are shooting for a Christmas release. There are a few songs still waiting for their final mix, but we are confident it will be ready Christmas Day or during Christmas season. When we release it, it will be sent to you by email link. Here is the tentative line-up:

Sing to Jesus

Let It Reign

Covenant Love

Honey [to be replaced by a secret song!]

Anna Post Writing

When Sunday Comes

When He Came Into My Life

Hail Mary

I Will Go (live) [probably will now be a bonus track]

Sunrise

Light of the World

{UPDATE:  December 13, 2018

Honey is now going to be a stand-alone single.

Sing to Jesus
When Sunday Comes
Covenant Love
Nothing But Love
Anna Post Writing
Hail Mary
When He Came Into My Life
Let It Reign
Light of the World
Sunrise

I Will Go (live) BONUS track}

We are so excited! We love you all and hope you will be blessed!

Peace & Love & JOY,

Mark LaJOIE for Living Waters

"Honey" is Sweet!

"Honey" is Sweet!

"Honey" Click to listen!

"Those who want to be rich are falling into temptation and into a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all evils, and some people in their desire for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains." I Tm 6:9-10

Here is the latest song from Mike McBride singing with Mark Lajoie, a product of those awesome recording sessions this year. Mark & Mike sing their heart out together. It's about somebody who needs some sweet salvation....It is quite tremendous! It's not explicit about our Faith, but it definitely implies the value of holiness. (For the first time there is a mild oath in one of our songs when it says, "you don't give a damn", but, with apologies to Rhett Butler, it seemed necessary.)

Here is what Mike had to say in dedicating this to our beloved Mary Gillis, R.I.P.:

This one started coming to me in 2010, not long after Mary Gillis died. Mary was one few people in my life who would actually listen to me blather on the guitar or piano. She always encouraged me to write and loved anything that I did write. She even used Lonely Dancer as her video project in the early 90s. Her spirit is with me often, and very much in the early years of writing Honey. But over more years this morphed into something more aggressive, not at all about Mary. But, I think she would have pushed me to bring it to where it is, and finish and record it. It's not always easy to produce these songs, but it feels so good when we're done. Special thanks to Mark Lajoie and Joshua Michaelfor singing back up. This one is for you Mary. Honey.

Soooooo! Please enjoy it in good health.

Poem For Change of Seasons

Poem For Change of Seasons

Today is the first day of autumn. That makes me think of a song of ours that never did get recorded or even performed in a show, but one we jammed on quite a bit. Perhaps it is a project for next year. But the words sure seem appropriate for this season AND for these times:

"You Need Love (Don't Throw Your Life Away)"

Standing so cold in your winter life

You can't make rhyme nor reason

Do you think maybe the season for Love is turning?

A yearning, a burning desire

Learning to pray with fire down upon your knees

Caring, Sharing your feelings

Daring and being all you were meant to be

You don't need hypocrisy

You don't need to silence me

You don't need your noise & news & party views surrounding you

You need Love!

You need Love! (Don't throw your life away!) 2x

Hey-ay-ee-ay-ay-ay-ee-yay!

What you call love is not at all

You rise and fall above your slavery

Do you think maybe the season for love is turning....

Some Video of Living Waters Recording!

Some Video of Living Waters Recording!

This summer's recording has included some Mike & Mark singing together on many songs; The results, I think, were fantastic! Our blend seemed just right, and our back and forth on "Let It Reign" was so much fun. Mike has contributed his keyboard skills to several Mark songs, like "Sing to Jesus" which we played together so much back in the day.

We're not really good on putting what we're doing on the record. I think we're just too busy doing the work, in the zone, shall we say. BUT! I managed to video a few snippets of us doing some more work on "Light of the World" which we could share with you. Ready?

Here is our vocal recording spot; we were doing the melody for "LotW" chorus

Mike was warming up to do the intro to "LotW"

Mike had to fix the tag on Josh's shirt!

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Video of Mike practicing the end of "LotW". 

At the end, Josh is circling his finger, telling Mike to keep going, because he has the section on a loop. Josh can then take or blend the best sections from the looped tracks.

Well! I hoped you enjoyed this small glimpse inside the process. Sausage being made....

Peace & Love & JOY,

Mark LaJOIE! of Living Waters

New Studio Production: "Sing to Jesus"!

New Studio Production:"Sing to Jesus"!

"Sing to Jesus" Studio Production 

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Josh at work mixing today, August 14

Behold! Here is another Living Waters production from our efforts this summer at the Loell recording studio: "Sing to Jesus". I am absolutely floored by the results; just LISTEN to this thing, will you? It is amazing!

Mike laying down a track today for Light of the World

Our Singing Spot in the Loell Studio

We must have performed this hundreds of times in our earliest days, and I believe it is our first original full group song. I (Mark) resurrected it with a demo done on GarageBand, & work commenced on it in earnest these past couple of weeks. I did the lead vocal last week, mostly in one take; I guess we should kind of know this one by now, right? Mike said Josh was giving furious thumbs up during the entire take; it sure felt right. By the way, singing with Mike just seemed to give us both tremendous energy to our efforts. (Dave & Denise also sang on "Light of the World" [wait till you hear that!], and Denise is on "When Sunday Comes" as well.)

Mark playing a part for Anna Post Writing today

One amazing thing about this is Greg's work on lead guitar. We had finished vocals and he just showed up in the cellar after work, sat down on a chair and dropped down this thunder on us. We were all just sitting there with our mouth open. That lead at the end? He just sat down and poured it out, one take, like we did in concert so many times. It is Clapton-like and preaches the exultant mood of the song better than words. It was a key missing element from the demo and makes our final product feel more complete. [This reminds me of the time we were recording "Fight For Me" and I was having trouble with my 12-string acoustic part during the bridge for some reason. Well! Greg grabbed my 12-string, jumped up on a folding table, told them to roll tape and just ripped off what you hear now. How does he do it? Amazing.]

You may notice I changed the words that I sing to that rejoicing final section. (Josh had this idea, that I change those words based on the flow of the album.) Some of what I sing here is based on the "overflow" words of our song, "City of Joy", with some alterations. Here is what I sang:

Alleluia!

You are the Place to go

Where joy will overflow

There is a Place for us to go

Our faith will lead us where

Our God will really care

One Cup and Bread to share!

One Cup and Bread to share!
----where Joy will overflow....

At one point, Tony played drums on "Light of the World"; wait for that!

This thematically ties the bow on our "Overflow" album as a whole. Jesus IS the place for us poor sinners to go where joy will overflow, especially in His Person, in the Bread & Cup that unite us as One Body.

That's Mark playing 12-string, Mike on keyboards, Greg on electric and Mike and I doing the gang-clapping and vocals. One step closer to a real, full studio album...SOON!

Now that is something to sing about! Hope you enjoy this. We sure do!

"Sing to Jesus" Studio Production 

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Peace & Love & JOY,

Mark LaJOIE!

Mark & Mike Singing Together!

Mark & Mike Singing Together!

 

Vocal recording is happening this week! Mark & Mike singing together! We are working on tracks for a prospective album that is partly retrospective.

We paired up on Mike's "Let It Reign" (so appropriate for a Living WATERS song!). Our work includes some older band songs, like "Light of the World" & "Sing to Jesus" There is a playlist with some of these songs below. We've been working on some of this since last year, but NOW we're hitting our stride, I think! 

(P.S. These are OBviously OLD pictures of Mark & Mike!! 70's Mark, 90's Mike....)

https://www.reverbnation.com/livingwatershttps://www.reverbnation.com/artist/866715/playlist/3681097

We also had a fan write us on Twitter, and ask us to sing Happy Birthday to her, although it's a few months off from now. We don't often get together, BUT, Mike & I were there with Josh recording, SO we decided to do it for her before we began laying down tracks. Her name is Shelby & here is what we sent her!

Peace & Love & JOY!
Mark LaJOIE!

Reaction to "Sunrise"!

Reaction to "SUNRISE"!

We just posted our newest production "Sunrise" to Music Xray, which is a way for professionals and artists to make contact.Well! Sunrise has dawned very brightly here!

First of all every single fan who heard it liked 20 out of 20 or 100%. I think that is pretty rare. Plus, the 5 pros who rated it gave it a higher rating than 75% of songs offered on the platform. They liked it! Do you like it?

CLICK! SUNRISE on ReverbNation