The Pocta Sessions

Some of you know about Red Mountain Music. Some of you need to know about them.

I have their first two Gadsby albums and I'm having to try really hard to follow my own rule and not buy myself the newest one before Christmas. Especially because my good friend Benj Pocta is the whole reason the new album exists.

Benj and his brothers grew up at the same church with me. I sang with him when he led worship for our youth group while I was in high school. His desire for Christian growth and maturity had a big effect on me. He helped me learn how to think about worship and why thinking about it is important, mostly from his leadership in picking and preparing music for our youth group. Benj always emphasized that we didn't want our worship to the God of all creation to be empty. We needed to know who we were singing to and what we were saying about him. I remember once we were practicing "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" one wednesday night. One of the verses starts "Here I raise my ebenezer, hither by thy help I'm come." I felt a little stupid, but I had no idea what an ebenezer is. So I asked him. I remember he thanked me for asking and told me it was a good question to ask. (Here is the answer).

The album is called This Breaks My Heart of Stone and is informally known as The Pocta Sessions because all of the songs were written or cowritten with Benj. His brother, Justin, did the album art (he is a great designer).

Anyway all this to say: you should check out Red Mountain Music. They are putting out good stuff.