I had the great pleasure recently of interviewing Ryan Delmore of Vineyard Music and 5 Cities Vineyard. Ryan has a new cd coming out in October entitled The Spirit, the Water and the Blood.

In Part 3 Ryan and I talk about the origins of his new cd and how it took shape, how Marc Ford, former guitarist for the Black Crowes, got involved in the project, Ryan teases on a possible tour with Chris Lizotte following Chris release of his latest record and finally I get to ask Ryan “What’s Next?” for corporate worship in his neck of the woods.

This is the final part of this interview series and I’d like to thank Ryan for taking the time to chat. I feel like I’ve made a friend and that truly is the best part of running this site, meeting so many other great people who are so talented. For those at LCC I’m hoping we can arrange Ryan to come visit and lead in some worship so stay tuned.

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Early in October we mentioned Chris Lizotte had agreed to do an interview with Our Rising Sound. Just heard back from Chris and below is the conversation we had. We tried to have a wide ranging sample of questions taken from our readers and contributors. I want to personally thank Chris for taking the time to respond, he’s a busy guy so we really appreciate the love. Please follow the link above and check out(and buy) Chris’ music if you have not already. Ok let’s get this party started, ORS = Our Rising Sound, CL = Chris Lizotte:

ORS: Who are some of your biggest music influences, regardless if they are in the church or not?

CL: I Love the new Wilco record! My Friends are a big influence on me: Ryan Delmore, Rick Kamrath, John Barnett, Marc Ford, Paul Jackson, Kevin Prosch.

ORS: Earlier in your career you wrote mostly non-congregational worship music. Now we’ve heard more of your songs being played in congregational settings. Did you find the transition of audience and purpose difficult to make in your songwriting?

CL: At first, Yes. As the years have gone by I it’s been easier. Maybe because I lead worship on a regular basis and I love to write songs that point people in the direction of honoring Jesus!

ORS: What sort of songwriting discipline do you follow? Some people write something everyday even if it’s bad just to keep the discipline, other’s only sit down and write when they feel inspired externally or internally. How do you approach songwriting practically?

CL: When I’m inspired. I try to have a guitar around always.

ORS: When you find yourself lacking inspiration to write how do you fight out of that? Or do you fight out of it?

CL: The prayer room helps with that. Just stopping everything and getting still helps a ton. Gives me a chance to listen.

ORS: What part of songwriting does you find the most challenging? What do you do to overcome those challenges?

CL: Lyrics. Refer to answer above

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I just heard back from Chris Lizotte and he’s agreed to an interview! This is really exciting for us, especially for us who have followed Chris’ music from early Vineyard days. Let me give a little background on Chris Lizotte and then I encourage you to check out his music, buy his music and then comment back with any question you would like me to ask him. I’ll gather questions from the readers and take them to Chris.

Chris has released 6 solo albums for Metro1Music and Vineyard Music. He has led worship for such events as Ohio Teens For Christ, Indiana Teens For Christ, The National Youth Leaders Convention, Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade as well as many other events across the nation and Europe. He has written songs for Crystal Lewis, Vineyard Music and Maranatha Music! Chris Lizotte is the worship pastor at Vineyard Community Church in Laguna Niguel, CA. He and his wife Kristy have three boys: Dana, Lee and Shane.

Here are some of Chris’ albums that you can buy on iTunes: Heaven on Earth, Soul Motion, Big Heavy World, Long Time Comin. Also make sure to checkout Chris on myspace.

Remember comment back or send message through the about page on what questions you want me to ask Chris Lizotte, it’s a huge blessing for him to give us some of his time.

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Found this on Chris’ myspace profile. He tells a funny story about his first band’s big break:

“I remember we had a demo deal with A&M. They gave us some money to record some songs and set up a showcase for us to perform for them at a club in Hollywood. They had this band from Seattle open for us called Soundgarden. After Soundgarden played I saw the head of A&R helping carry out the drummer’s kit. That was the last time we saw anyone from A&M.”

If I need to tell anyone who Soundgarden is, well, be ashamed, be very ashamed.