The Scott Wesley Brown Collection

Description

Scott Wesley Brown, is a singer-songwriter who was part of the early beginnings of Contemporary Christian Music. He has spent his career ministering both in the U.S. and on the missions field. Brown, a self described Christian Musicianary, began releasing albums in 1974 and was part of the Jesus Music Revolution.

Brown has seen a lot of changes in contemporary Christian music since he started. The technical end is of much higher quality. State-of-the-art studios are readily available. Some Christian artists today are rivals to those in secular music by playing in the same huge stadiums and having the same high numbers of records sold.

For Brown it was much simpler. “For me, it was a little more grassroots. It was playing in a little more intimate settings. I did play some of the big Jesus Festivals back in the ‘70s and the early ‘80s and that was really exciting but, for the most part, it was just putting your stuff in your car and taking off. “I kept always thinking this is a great way to share the gospel.

“When people see a Christian artist, they see them on the stage and think, ‘Gee, that must be such a great life.’ Well, yes, for that hour, hour-and-a-half. They don’t see all of the in-between,” he explained. Because Brown did more than play in nice U.S. venues, he has lived through some scary situations — like border crossings that included guns being stuck in his face.

Once he went with American Leprosy Missions to India. “To be able to lead people who are leprosy patients — who don’t have any arms or legs and just their faces are sunken in — to be standing there in this chapel with my guitar and just singing worship songs … Seeing them worship was something that just dumbfounded me. It took my breath away. I was starting to cry in the middle of all these songs because I thought these people have had so much taken away from them, barely surviving, but yet they want to worship so much,” Brown said.

“Seeing people just sleeping on the floors of their dirt homes, I realized how materialistic I was and really felt like I was the rich young ruler, so I wrote a song about my possessions,” he said. Calling it a “glorious journey,” Brown said that he wouldn’t change anything about his life, even if at times it was hard.

“For me, I’ve always been excited about grace and how God’s grace shows itself in different ways,” Brown said. “To know that everything that happens, we still receive grace to get us through, grace to heal us, grace to protect us, grace to encourage us. When I look to God, I still pray for God to ‘just let me realize Your grace. Help me not to complain but to see things in a different light — in the way You see them.’”