Joel Price

MyGen Profile Generator"I just want to make music that moves people’s hearts,” says Joel Price Christian rock artist. "In today’s world, music has been turned into a vehicle to promote impurity, sex, drugs, greed and hate. I believe that music should move people’s hearts closer to God and that’s what I try to do with the songs that I write". Joel’s music is blend of Hard Rock, Pop and Contemporary Christian fueled by stories from his own life experiences. "I write about what I know", Joel’s Music is passionate, intense and full of emotion and we believe that "Starting Over" is just the beginning of what will be a promising future for Joel. Here is what a couple of people have said about “Starting Over". (Taken from Cdbaby.com with permission of reviewers)__________________________________________________ ______________Reviewer: Paulette Lan Do you ever have days when you've gone through every CD in your collection and cannot connect with any of them, well this CD is my any mood, every emotion CD. I can put this in any time and lose myself in the lyrics, the music and come out better and closer to God. This is a MUST HAVE for any CD collection. P.S. TRACK 12!!!_______________________________________________________ _________Reviewer: Jon Bragg Time flies by so fast and there are staples that we need to get through this crazy world. God is 1 and listening to your music is the other. And I am serious! Your music the sound, and the way the lyrics flow together and the content of the lyrics really help me through lots of days. Even Daryl one of our workmates said the words really hit home with him. He said it sounds like every word comes from the heart. I truly believe it too. Keep on rockin' No matter what. Jon _______________________________What if you woke up one day and realized that everything you thought you were doing right was all wrong and let’s just say that you were at the end of your rope. You had spent your whole life in the pursuit of selfish ambition and had come to realize that no matter how many drugs, how much stuff, how many relationships or jobs or money or what ever, that it still left you completely empty inside. No matter how hard you tried to fill up the hole inside of you, you still felt empty and alone. Well, that’s exactly where I found myself in October of 2000. After a suicide attempt a couple of years earlier and continued drug and alcohol abuse, a marriage that had started with sexual immorality and continued to be impure, a failed record deal and countless demons from my past, I broke. I knew I needed something, I wasn’t sure what but, I knew that I couldn’t live like this any longer.The journey to me becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ is in my opinion a miracle. See, I was not brought up in a Christian home, as a matter of fact both of my parents were country musicians and neither had much of a concern for Christ. I was left to fend for my self as far as Christianity was concerned.When I was young, about 5 or 6, I was baptized in a small church in Texas. I am not really sure where but, I am pretty sure I didn’t have a clue as to why or what it meant to be a true disciple of Christ. Anyway, we moved to Nashville shortly after that and at 14, I was baptized again in a local church. Once again, no one really taught me or told me anything about how I was supposed to live now that I had once again become a Christian. So, my life didn’t change because I wasn’t told that I had to. I was told that Jesus knew my heart and that after I had been baptized all my sins were forgiven and no matter what I did, it was cool, God would forgive me. It was a once saved always saved, pray Jesus into your heart and everything will be all right thing. After that, I didn’t give God another thought, I even engaged in satanic worship stuff and ouija board conjuring, tarot cards and the like. I went on my merry way being sexually immoral with every girl I could, using drugs, lying, stealing, and manipulating people for my own personal gain, the works basically. I just continued sinning without a conscience. I didn’t care. I don’t think I really ever even really believed in God or Jesus. I had never met them so they weren’t real to me.So, where am I going with all of this? Well, sit back and relax because it may take me awhile to get there. Twenty-one, where it all started to go down hill. I was in the middle of cutting a record with a Nashville label in a band that I will not mention. I was the music guy and the singer was more or less the melody and lyrics guy. Well, I remember us having production meetings to discus various things and meeting some Christian artist who cussed like a sailor, told dirty jokes and talked about who they were having sex with. I was totally blown away by the lack of integrity. Like I had any integrity myself at that time but still, I thought to myself, I’m doing all the same things that this guy is doing and if what he’s doing is being a Christian, then I want no part of it. At least I won’t be a hypocrite. It was shortly after that, my girlfriend at that time cheated on me. We were both being immoral with each other so, why it was a shock to me I guess I’ll never know. When I found out what was going on, I really flipped out and took a bottle of my mom’s sleeping pills and drank about a 6 pack of beer. God was really looking out for me even then because my parents found me just as I was starting to convulse and they called 911. The ambulance got me to the hospital just in time, any longer and they wouldn’t have been able to revive me. It’s truly a miracle that I am alive because I can remember the feeling of being dead. A very strange calm came over me and for the first time in my entire life, I felt completely at peace. I remember not wanting to come back and then everything went blank and I woke up like maybe 2 days later in the hospital. Anyway, it was shortly after this that my mom introduced me to Dawn, now my wife. She was a single mom with three children and we hit it off immediately and of course we became immoral immediately as well. It was during this time that things began to really way on me. The label that I was signed to went belly up. So I had to find a job. It was really hard to find a job. I had long hair, no high school diploma because I had dropped out in my junior year and I was extremely depressed. I had always known that I was just supposed to be a rock star. It was somehow written in the stars so, when the band spilt up and the label when splat, so did I. You might say I crashed and burned. It was really messed up. My wife started working two jobs to support the kids and me and that took me even further down the hole. It seemed to take forever to find a job but I finally did. All this time I was still drinking and using drugs to medicate the emptiness inside me. During this time, I began to see similarities between the way I was living and the way my Dad was living. We were both depressed, both using to self medicate and we were both really hurting our families. I don’t consider my father to be a bad man by any means; I’m just telling it like it happened. (My Dad was baptized august 6, 2006) While all of this was going on my sister and brother-in-law who had always been very religious were not really in a good place either. They had always gone to church as long as I could remember but their lives were really messed up. It was during this time that my brother-in-law met a guy named Sonny and asked him where he went to church. I didn’t find out till much, much later that Sonny had been praying to meet someone to study the bible with. Sonny told him where he was going to church and my brother-in-law asked Sonny if he could go to church with him that Sunday. So my brother in law went to church with Sonny and was asked to study the Bible and after thinking he had been a Christian for many years he saw for the first time in the scriptures that he was really lost. At that time he got my sister to study the Bible as well and they were both later baptized into Christ.Shortly after being baptized my sister and brother in law started reaching out to my wife and I but I wanted nothing to do with them or their church. I persecuted them in every way and would have my wife lie on the phone and tell them that I was not home because I didn’t want to have to talk to them. However, I was starting to really see things in their family change. Things I had never seen in anyone before. For 3 years they prayed and had people at their church praying for my family and me. I know this now because of all the people that came up to me after my wife and I were baptized and said they had been praying for me for a really long time. I had never seen Christianity like this before. It blew me away. Anyway, I finally gave in to studying the Bible but it was pretty funny. I called my sister one day and asked if my nephew could study with me (because I thought he would take it easy on me) and my sister convinced me to study with my brother and my nephew. I was still very reluctant and so I invited the other guitar player who had been in the band I was signed in, in hopes that he would be able to help me because he was quote unquote a “Christian” himself. By the end of the first study I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was lost and they encouraged me to come to church. My first experience at church was devastating. I walked in and there were people of all nationalities there. Black, white, all races. I had never seen anything like it before. All the churches I had ever gone to were all white and I had never seen blacks and whites fellowshipping together before. It was a real culture shock. All kinds of people welcomed me into the fellowship and seemed to have a genuine interest in who I was. Anyway, the worship started and the band started to play Creed then they played some R&B and all kinds of stuff. I was moved and I thought, Wow, I’ve never seen anything like this before. Then the preacher started to preach about other Gods. I remember him saying that what ever you love the most, that is your God. I thought to myself well, I love music more than my wife and my kids and God. I sank into my chair and right at that moment, I knew that my life had to change. I went home and told my wife that she had to come to church with me. I wouldn’t take no for an answer. So, my wife and I studied the Bible and still I almost didn’t make it. Right before me and my wife were supposed to get baptized Satan took a hold of my heart and I got angry at my wife and cussed her out on the phone while she was studying the Bible with some sisters at church. When she got home we had a huge fight and she told me that she was going to get baptized whether I did or not. She said if you fall, I will be here for you but I won’t fall with you. That statement cut my heart and we prayed together. We were baptized on 10/29/00. Shortly after that, I studied the Bible with the other guitar player that had been in the band I was signed in and baptized him. Since then my Mom and Dad, my nephew Eric, my nephew Cory, another friend of my wife, my wife’s best friend of 22 years and her husband have been baptized in Christ. I have been in countless Bible studies since then and have seen many others baptized in Christ. I thank God for this new life he has given me and I pray that some, if not all of this story will help you in some way. God is amazing and he can change anything. He changed my whole life and continues to change me almost on a daily basis. This is by no means the full story. It would take forever to tell the whole story brick by brick but this is most of it anyway.
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