from Keith...
Life was going great in 2007 and then. . . kidney disease struck. "I'm not a diabetic", I thought, "Why am I about to go on dialysis?" Well, I had to stop everything, which gave me more time to put into a little recording project with my longtime writing partner, Clay Howell. We were about to record an Easter musical we wrote in 1999 to make sure it was not a lost work. Well, with the new time I gained, Clay and I decided to start working on Monday and Thursday nights. We dined, read the Bible, prayed, and wrote lots of music. The outcome was the album "A God of Second Chances". We released the first track, "Come Hungry To His Banquet Table" and hit #1 in July 2008 and was on the charts for a total of 9 months remaining in the top 10 for 5 months.

Then we released the title track, "A God of Second Chances", and it hit #5 within 2 months on the CGC chart. Now, it is climbing up the Christian Voice chart with Decembers chart just being announced for me at #6 and still climbing.

Oh, the kidneys, after over a year on heavy doses of Prednisone (awful stuff), my kidneys are doing better and no dialysis.

God continues to bless me each and every day!







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NEW Workshops Offered by Keith Caldwell and Clayton B. Howell

Workshop Title: Songwriters Symposium
Highlighted Topics: Turning words into rhythm, Lyric writing, Starting a tune, Computer music notation software, Publishing, Copyrights and royalties
Length: 4 hours, or custom

Workshop Title: The Business of the Music Business
Highlighted Topics: Copyrights and royalties, Publishing, Producing quality demos, Getting airplay, Marketing
Length: 4 hours, or custom

Workshop Title: Stage Performance
Highlighted Topics: Performance training, Relating to the audience, More than a singer - a communicator, Mic technique
Length: 4 hours, or custom

Workshop Title: Movement in Song: Don't Stand There Like A Statue
Highlighted Topics: Attaching movement and emotions to words
Length: 4 hours, or custom (individual lessons available)

Workshop Title: Vocal Coaching
Highlighted Topics: Breath control, intonation, posture, resonance, vocal pedagogy, vowel placement
Length: 4 hours, or custom (individual lessons available)

KCCH Music is currently accepting booking requests for these exciting, new workshops led by Clayton B. Howell and Keith Caldwell. Each workshop provides the participant with valuable information about specific aspects of the songwriting process and the music business.

Keith Caldwell holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting, Graduate Studies at the Moore School of Music at University of Houston, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Theatre from Troy State University, Troy, Alabama. Keith has enjoyed a successful and extensive professional theatrical career beginning in New York's Trixie True, Teen Detective in 1980. Keith was New York City's top male cabaret singer for ten years performing in such well-known clubs as The Duplex, Don't Tell Mama, The Eighty-Eights, Paulsen's and The Paper Moon. Keith, not only an actor and vocalist, has taught music and acting at the University level, has been a model, and has proven his talent as a songwriter and recording artist.

Clayton B. Howell holds a Bachelor of Arts in Piano Performance and has been honored with multiple Songwriting Awards during his professional career, which started at the young age of fifteen. Clay has had several of his original songs hit the Top Ten on multiple national and International charts. In July 2008, "Come Hungry To His Banquet Table" co-written with the song's vocalist, Keith Caldwell, marked the first #1 Hit Single for both men as songwriters and Keith's first #1 Hit Single as a Gospel Recording Artist. As a pianist and vocalist, Clay has performed almost every type of music known to man at myriad venues from concert halls to churches to New York style cabarets.

Keith Caldwell's most recent CD, The Cross Began to Call, co-written with Clayton B. Howell, has seen immediate success. The CD's first release, "The Cross Began To Call," reached #4 on the International Gospel charts.