Clint Wells Hymns

All Things New chord chart/lead sheet

•February 2, 2012 • 3 Comments

Hey folks. I’ve gotten a few comments about the chords links being dead for “All Things New” and some other tunes as well. Follow this link for a download of the entire Red Mountain songbook as well as the B-sides from our last and final record, All Things New.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/435505/redmountainmusic/Extras.zip

If you have any questions or notice anything else that needs correcting on this page please do not hesitate to send me an e-mail. Thanks and let me know if the link works.

Clint Wells

clintmwells@gmail.com

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Bread of the World

•November 22, 2011 • 1 Comment

Greetings hymn nerds. Today Bruce Benedict of Cardiphonia released a new album of hymn re-writes inspired by the Lord’s Supper. Along with several other musicians around the country I was invited to give one of these texts a shot. You can stream it below and the link should allow you to purchase it as well. If you need a chord chart just shoot me a message and I’ll get it to you.

I suppose this is a good time to talk about hymn writing. I’ve been writing hymns for almost ten years. When I first met Brian and began attending Red Mountain the idea of re-writing hymns was foreign to me. As I began to familiarize myself with the work of Christopher Miner and dive in to some of the ancient hymn writers I was compelled by the force of the language of those texts. I started writing my own hymns in 2003 and from then on many of them found their home on the Red Mountain records that Brian and I produced. Over the last several years I have written over a hundred hymns. Many of them lie forgotten on my iPod. Originally this page was dedicated to releasing all of those unrecorded songs. That goal remains but it’s become less of a priority as I spend most of my time out on the road playing guitar for other artists.

Those of you who know me know that although writing hymns is dear to my heart creatively, it’s something that I’ve lost a lot of interest in. These days it seems that I only write hymns when people specifically ask me to. I think my days of pouring through ancient hymnals are, for the most part, behind me. Having said that, I still enjoy the challenge when someone has a text they’d like me to try and put music to. This seems to be happening more and more. Ironically, the last batch of hymns I wrote for the final Red Mountain record, All Things New, was my best batch. And some of these new songs, including the one above, are the best I’ve written.

I don’t know what all of this means, really. So I’ll just end by saying that there is something wonderfully mysterious about singing songs with people. I don’t care what you do or don’t believe (and I’ll appreciate the same courtesy) but I’m really proud to have contributed to projects that encourage people to sing together.

This new song intentionally doesn’t have a chorus. Instead there are just a few “sha la la’s” where a chorus should be. I don’t have the audacity to add my own words to these great texts and, well, sometimes there are no words.

Hope you are all well. Lots of hugs and kisses and pizza to you all.

Bread of the World

Clint Wells

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No Longer Visible

•June 7, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Hey folks. Just wanted to let you know that I’ve contributed a brand new hymn to a project organized by my new buddy, Cardiphonia. It’s called Pentecost Songs and it features a bunch of very cool hymnwriters from all over the country. It’s also FREE. My submission is called No Longer Visible and you can listen to it below. Hope you all like it and that you’re all making your way through the days with kindness and grace.