Tim Coons

Let’s Make a Music Video Together

timcoons — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:38:59 +0000

My wife and I have video’d our kids dancing as soon as they could groove. There’s just something about capturing their untiring joy (not to mention all that sass).

Recently we had the idea- what if we asked our friends and family to send videos of their kids getting lost in the rhythm too? Little 15 second or so clips of sheer, physical joy. And we could string them together in a simple video. The process would be fun and we’d have a blast putting something together that would make all our hearts beat quicker for happiness.

So help us make this music video! Send your clips of the highest quality to betonycoons@mac.com!

Help Us Make a Music Video! from Tim Coons on Vimeo.

Off to Texas for a March Tour: March 12th-18th

timcoons — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:49:40 +0000

I’ll be in Texas for a host of shows with LOUD HARP, an incredible worship band. Austin, Dallas, and Houston all in one weekend. If you’re seeing this and thinking to yourself, “wait, I’m in Texas and LOVE Tim Coons with his fresh sound.” Well, come to my facebook to see the dates and times: http://www.facebook.com/timcoonsbranches

Prayers over travels and my family’s well-being while I’m gone are much appreciated!

Kingdoms: Family Adventure Day #1

timcoons — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:34:04 +0000

We begin here whisperings and rumors of a new project… I say we because this time it won’t just be an album. My wife, Betony, and I have decided to create together for the first time. And not just the two of us. We’re also including our family- Lucy (3 years old) who loves to paint and boss people around and Harriet (16 months old) who likes to give us opportunities for exercise when we have to run and pull her off of whatever dangerous thing she’s climbed onto.

As a family we’ll be exploring what it means for all of our worlds to overlap, embrace, and collide- music, art, husband, wife, child, adult, reflection, adventure, fresh, experienced, wonder, and wonder renewed. The working title is “Kingdoms”.

In holding to the practice that the journey is always more important than the destination, Betony and I have decided to have “Family Adventure Days”. We will dive into the deeper things of life, invite our kids into those places, and invite our close friends there too. We don’t know what each month will look like, but we hope songs, paintings and art come out of the “play” of these days.

“January Family Adventure #1″
Polar Explorers
Journal from Betony:

It’s January. It’s freezing cold outside (try -15 F degrees outside right now as I am writing this). The New Year endeavor? Documenting our hopes and dreams for these upcoming months.

As a family we filled 5 mason jars- one for Hopes, Dreams, Prayers, Fears, and Secrets (and then actually a 6th jar that Lucy wanted to make. Can’t quite tell what the tag says as it is written in her 3 year old hieroglyphics.)

In each jar, we put special little mementos and words we’d spent time reflecting on. In the dream jar were type-written notes: “I dream that we could create something beautiful this year”, “I dream that my friends’ dreams would come true”, “I dream I could be a real ice cream chef”. Feathers in the “Hopes” jar, unwritten secrets in the “Secrets” jar, one word fears (which we later burned) and rocks in the “Fears” jar, and a list of the people we care most about in the “Prayers” jar…

Then, we bundled up as best we could (the polar explorers part) and headed out to the wilderness (also known as the wildlife sanctuary west of Glenmere park). It felt really good to be out in the wild forest (OK not really wild, but it felt REAL). We found a special place to hang each of the jars – suspending by twine and air in the crisp sunshine. Inside we left pencils and paper in each jar. We want to hear your hopes & dreams too.

You’re invited- if you live near by, to go find these secret jars. Add your own tiny tidbits. Share bits of your story. If nothing else, it is a beautiful walk in the woods.

Or, if you are family from far away, leave your tidbits in the comments section below.
Hopes:
Dreams:
etc…

Happy Adventuring!

Happy New Year! Have a FREE Album

timcoons — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:08:03 +0000

I released Frailty on Ash Wednesday in 2011. It was mainly recorded in my basement during late hours while our 2 year old was asleep. It’s a collection of songs very close to my heart, rich in explorations of becoming a father and encountering my own mortality.

I offer it for free this week (until January 2nd) because of the song “Good Days”. This single from Frailty uses all it’s metaphors from New Year’s Eve: Celebrating and mourning the end of one year and taking on the fresh beginning of the next.

Come to
timcoons.bandcamp.com to download the entire album for FREE

November Begins

timcoons — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:38:56 +0000

Life has been good.

Lucy and Hattie (our 3 and 1 year old) are amazing. Betony is lovely. Things are cruising. I’ll be doing some more focused writing here soon, as Betony and I just started doing regular babysitting on Saturdays so we can turn time into great art (easier with out children sometimes… Ha)

I wanted to share with you all the successes of “Potomac”, released in August, thus far. With some links…

*I was featured on the internet radio station “Under the Radar”
http://www.facebook.com/radarradio?ref=ts&fref=ts

*I had a great write up on a blog called “Love Subverts”
http://lovesubverts.com/2012/10/potomac-and-american-spirituality/

*My music is going to be the soundtrack for a short film called “The Deliberate Life”. Here’s some of the production company’s work
http://rockhousemotion.com/2012/10/21/a-story-in-one-image-a-great-man-a-camera-and-an-idea/

Much love to you all. Thanks for the support.

Potomac Gets Cover Story in BANDWAGON Magazine

timcoons — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:23:43 +0000

http://www.bandwagmag.com/2012/09/view-the-latest-issue-online/

Bandwagon is a great music and events paper in Colorado that has featured me as an artist and reviews my new album this month. It was a blast doing the photo shoot. The conversation with the photographer, Thomas Nash, went something like this over texts:

Thomas- “Hey, I want to do an action shot of you on a bike, with a sweet blurred background… Do you have a cool bike we could use?”

Me- “You mean my ’94, electric blue Trek 820?”

Thomas- … long pause… “I’ll ask around.”

So, we ended up using Renee Swick’s bike! -Who sings with me on my album “Frailty” and on the new album, “Potomac”! Here’s to great press for my new album and Renee’s 2-wheeler. And a huge thanks to Bandwagon.

Potomac is Released

timcoons — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:55:55 +0000

Potomac is now available for download at the bandcamp link here or above in the menu… There has been so much time, talent, money, heart, sweat, critical listening, correcting then more critical listening, put into this album by many different people. My thanks and gratitude goes out to them.

And thanks to you for giving it your own time and ears and heart and especially for your support. My hope is that the collection of songs is a huge blessing for people’s hearts in their own encounters with God- that in the music is an honesty, a creativity, and a flow of story that lifts up our eyes in natural, sincere ways.

Be looking for reviews and videos that will be coming out in the next month! Mainly on Facebook, but I will try to post some here as well.

“Potomac” available in one week

timcoons — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:12:57 +0000

The store is all set up. Come by and listen to a few songs, check out the goods. I’m thrilled with how everything has turned out and I’m really getting excited about this!

timcoons.bandcamp.com

“Sing Your Song Over Me” lyrics and “Potomac” Musings

timcoons — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:57:09 +0000

The song for week 2 on “Potomac: Capturing American Spirituality” can be heard at potomac.timcoons.com – and people have been taking photos since Sunday in response to it. I was going to put the lyrics here just for reference as you tour the site…

The “Potomac” album, of which we’re featuring one song from each week, pairs modern songs with American spirituals… exploring America’s spiritual past and present. Last week was the song “Jaw” paired with “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” (a spiritual covered by both Johnny Cash and Moby). Both songs are a cry out to God for action against enemies of Soul and Good.

This week’s “Sing Your Song Over Me” is a song I wrote after my second daughter, Hattie, was born. It came from a place of genuine happiness and true joy with life and God. Pairing it with “Do Lord Remember” made sense… We sang that song at summer camp, Westminister Woods, in Kansas. Another place and time for me of genuine happiness and true joy. (again, at potomac.timcoons.com.)

Here’s the lyrics and chords. And enjoy the photography!:

“Sing Your Song Over Me”

C F
Solid to stand, quick to defend

My heart is mending

C
Sing Your song over me, like the way you do
G
Like you always do,
F
Sing that song you sing

“Potomac: Capturing American Spirituality”

timcoons — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:17:50 +0000

“This is the beginning of something beautiful.”
-quote from one of my daughter’s old one-sies…

Here it begins! Our pre-album photography project!!

Before my new album is fully released August 7th, we are hosting a photography project called “Potomac: Capturing American Spirituality”! For all of July I’ll be putting up one song each week for listening-pleasure and photographers (and yes, you too) all over the nation will be taking pictures in response to where the song takes them! It should be a great exploration of “American faith” in this hot, summer month.

“Best of the week” photos will be used in the album artwork. And we’ve connected it with Instagram to make things simple and easy. If you take a picture in response to a listening and want to upload it on instagram, just use the hashtag #potomacproject and your photo will show up on our website.

Come to www.potomac.timcoons.com and see the details!