All articles by Bert Montgomery:Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
During the Already Free tour last fall, we caught up with the band in Oxford, Mississippi, and sat down with DTB flutist/keyboardist Kofi Burbridge. In honor of their Grammy win, we're pleased to re-post the Kofi interview and Bert Montgomery's article “Makin' a Joyful Noise.” Click here to listen to our interview with Kofi. Click here to read “Makin' a Joyful Noise (Experiencing God via the Derek Trucks Band).” Thursday, 28 January 2010  It's a tale of two “men of God.” One sent to preach repentance and to proclaim the coming of the Lord. The other, well . . . the Lord.Sure there were some similarities between them . . . 1. they shared a bloodline (they were cousins); 2. both were born of women who shouldn't have been pregnant to begin with; 3. and they were most certainly not the white-skinned folk of the Sunday School pictures I grew up seeing. But, these may be about all of the similarities When it came to their messages, to their behavior, and to the people with whom they associated, there weren't too many similarities at all. Monday, 18 January 2010  Talking about football is offensive, maybe even blasphemous, given the earthquake in Haiti this week. But talk about it I must.It's not that I'm not sensitive. I was just as righteously outraged by Pat Robertson's comments on Haiti as everybody else. For the record, I lean quite heavily into the “suffering servant” theological framework. Jesus is in Haiti – and has always been in Haiti – living among, loving and serving and suffering with the people of Haiti. And to follow Jesus means that we, too, must align ourselves with the people of Haiti. Thursday, 14 January 2010  In part two of our interview with Oteil Burbridge, Oteil shares about when he started playing instruments, how reading William Barclay and Abraham Joshua Heschel has guided his journey of faith, what Peter Sellers told him on the set of Sellers' movie Being There, and his thoughts on African Americans and the Republican Party. Oteil is interviewed by Bert Montgomery.Click "read more" to hear the audio interview.
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FaithLab's Bert Montgomery is a native from the New Orleans region, and playing trombone in junior high and high school bands he marched in several Mardi Gras parades each year from 7th thru 12th grades. We asked him to give us a personal report on yesterday's events – Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras Day).
The Faith Lab congratulates the Derek Trucks Band on their well-deserved