‘On The Incarnation’
Today’s the day folks. Daniel Renstrom’s ‘On The Incarnation’ is officially available on iTunes and at his store. Now here’s the deal. There is absolutely no reason you wouldn’t buy this record. I’ve never been a huge fan of Christmas music because it all seems to sound the same, but there are two records that have changed that for me. Andrew Peterson’s ‘Behold The Lamb Of God’ and Daniel’s ‘On The Incarnation’.
So here’s what we are going to do. Fist up, you’re going to go buy the record. Then you are going to love it. Then I want to hear your favorite song on here. Then you will love the record so much that you will blog about it, put it on your Facebook and Twitter about it. Sounds like an awesome plan huh?
Here’s my favorite.
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So that’s your project today. So let’s hear it. Favorite song on the record? Go.
Six Days
In six days you’re going to buy something. You’re going to buy Daniel Renstrom’s ‘On The Incarnation’ and then you’re going to thank Daniel for making such an amazing Christmas record and then you will thank me for forcing you to buy it.
Seriously though. This is one of those records that you absolutely don’t want to not have. That’s right. Threw a double-negative in there for ya. ’Don’t want to not have’. That means you crazy want to have it. In fact, you might want multiples so you can give them out for Christmas presents.
So here’s the thing. I’d show you a song right now on here, but I think Daniel would kill me. So in time we’ll show you a song, and I’ve heard rumor of even a song giveaway.
For now head over to Daniel’s Blog and check out some of his previews of the songs.
Pigeon Forge With The Renstroms
So last week we took our last ‘mini vacation’ of the Summer and drove out to Pigeon Forge to meet up with Daniel Renstrom and his family. Their family was having a yearly family reunion and we were invited to crash it for the weekend so we made the drive out to East Tennessee for a couple days. Daniel and Danielle have quickly become some of our favorite people in the world and we’re slowly working on getting them to move to Nashville, and their extended family that we met out there were equally as awesome. All thirty something of them.
The first night we got there around dinner time and had dinner with everyone, then we went and tried out a little mini-golf. Kristin had been trash talking all day about how good she was at mini-golf so we challenged her to prove it. Daniel and I ended up tying with the best scores, which happened to be a way better score than Kristin had, but in her defense there were kids running around like mad the whole night.
The next day we packed up early and went to Dollywood and the water park that is connected. Kristin took Blue on some of the bigger kid water slides and I stayed with the little ones the the more age appropriate stuff, then when we went over to the ‘theme park side’ I took Blue on his first roller coaster ever. Which is absolutely one of the funniest videos I have ever seen. We were there for the day, but then I had to make it back to Nashville for bus call.
All in all another great little getaway and I’m glad we took the time to do it. Thanks to Daniel and Danielle and the rest of the family for including us. We had a great time.
Oh, and by the way. Daniel has a new Christmas record that you all will buy this October when it comes out, so just a heads up on that. A-Mazing.
Trendy Coffee With Daniel
There’s only a couple places in Nashville that everyone goes to meet. Since Daniel was near downtown Nashville and needed to be at the airport, there was really only one place to go. The trendiest place in this fine city. Fido.
One cool thing about what we do for work is that we can do work with people that live across the country and never actually sit down with them to meet. It’s great to be able to communicate with someone online and on the phone, but there is something really cool about being able to sit down and have some trendy coffee with them. Yesterday was the first day that Daniel and I were actually able to meet in person and we had a great time. He’s a genuine guy and has a great record on top of it.
Now, if you still haven’t gotten Daniel’s record, what’s wrong with you? It’s time. Go to iTunes, spend six dollars, and get it. He’s gonna explode one of these days and then you can tell your friends at your trendy coffee shop meetings that you got his EP way back in the day and you already know four of his songs in guitar, and all that. See I’m looking out for you and helping you be cool. Now go.
In Nashville we have Fido, what’s your “trendy coffee place” called?
The New Daniel Renstrom
So check this out. We just launched Daniel Renstrom’s new site along with a brand spankin new blog. Daniel has been a really cool guy to work with and is SkörInc’s first “Indie” guy to work with. I’m excited to see Daniel grow and really move forward with his music. Also if you haven’t heard any of Daniel’s record, where have you been? It’s time you went and got that.
So anyway, Randy has been busting out on this one for the last few weeks and here it is. I’m really happy with the design and some of the ideas that came forward with this one. Head over to Daniel’s new home and say hello.
Free Daniel Renstrom
So, Randy and I have been working on something pretty intense for the last few days, and it’s almost done. It’s actually been more Randy working on it than me, but he’s done an amazing job this far, but we need your help to finish it out.
Here’s the deal. Our friend Daniel Renstrom has agreed to give all of you a free copy of his song “At The Cross” in exchange for helping Randy and I out. In fact, simply downloading the song, is the part that is helping us out, but I’m going to ask you to take it a step further. It’s five easy steps, are you ready?
Step one: Click the button above and download Daniel’s song.
Step two: Listen to the song.
Step three: Love the song.
Step four: Go to Daniel’s blog and tell him how much you love the song.
Step five: Take five dollars and ninety four cents and buy the rest of Daniel’s record on iTunes.
Even if you have Daniel’s record already, or have already heard this song, if you could do steps one thru four, it would be amazing. We are testing something out and need as much feedback as we can get.
Thanks so much and enjoy the song.
It’s A Girl
Congratulations to Daniel and family for the new addition. Head over to Daniel’s site and welcome the new little girl. And buy his record while your at it. Diapers aren’t cheap.
Introducing… Daniel Renstrom
Remember last week when we saved our pennies? How many of you got it? What did you think? Honestly I still have it in my car and listen to it often.
Well Daniel’s Blog is officially up and running. We are still working out a few kinks, but Daniel has started posting on it and promises to regularly so make sure to subscribe. I think it will be a fun process to see his blog grow from this community into his very own community. Daniel has been a great guy to work with and I am as excited to see how this blog affects his career as I am to read it and get to know his music better.
So head over to Daniel’s Blog and say hey.
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A Five Dollar And Ninety Four Cent Project
Did you save your pennies? You need five hundred and ninety four of them for today.
A few weeks ago I got an email coming from the contact page of this blog. It was asking a few marketing questions and some internet(y) questions and introducing me to a new artist. I’d never heard of Daniel before, but answered the questions the best I could, with my opinions on blogging and marketing and all that. After three or four more emails Daniel sent me a copy of his EP to check out. It took me a day or two to get to it, but when I had time to sit and listen to it, I loved it.
Now, I’m no professional music critic by any stretch of the imagination, but I feel like I know when I hear something that has the potential to go somewhere, and this, in my opinion is it. Daniel’s got a clean acoustic sound, with vocals that remind me of early Derek Webb, you know, before he was mad at stuff.
Daniel and I emailed back and forth and after I listened to his album a few times, I knew that I wanted to do what I could to help out with his online presence. I read a bit about him and through talking to him, I found out that he is a worship leader from North Carolina, and isn’t able to travel as much as other artists. I am by no means some online guru guy, but I love the idea of great artists succeeding and using every means possible to do that. We are currently in the process of setting Daniel up a blog, and have been talking about some other ideas aside from traveling a ton.
So here’s the project. Take the five dollars and ninety four cents that you saved this week, and buy Daniel’s record on iTunes. Listen to it, then come back here and let’s talk about it. Think of the comments section as a place to review the record. I know there are plenty of “music folks” reading this blog, (Seth, Euphrony, Kat, Mark, Randy, Carlos, Jeremy, Michael, Chad, Spence and the list goes on) and I want to get this record to as many people as possible this weekend. Daniel’s music is going somewhere, and we can be a part of getting it there.
So that’s the project. It’s pretty easy. Spend five dollars and ninety four cents, listen to some good music, then come here and review it.
Ready? Go.
