photo by Filip Vukina
When I was preparing the very first issue of So, the first record Neon Steeples, was the party, and then what happens once the party is
[WM] Worship Musician magazine over 16 Google Maps zoomed out version of the over? You know, nobody talks about that part.
years ago, I had selected David Crowder for narrative of scripture, which seems to be starting That is kind of where we are. It’s like, “So know
the all-important first cover story because of at the beginning… communion with God (our what?”
his unique and effective worship music. When I maker, Creator) and then displacement, and heard him open up his mouth and start to talk, I then most of the rest of the stories are about It dawned on me one evening when I was sitting
knew I had made the right choice. Fast forward turning back into communion and how this at the house, and I was thinking about the Last
to today and listening to Crowder’s new record would be rectified… this distance. Supper and the Holy Ghost aspect. I knew I
(which just might fall into the ‘masterpiece’
was going to call the record I Know a Ghost.
category), I knew without a shadow of a doubt And then the American Prodigal album was I didn’t know why necessarily, but I wanted to
that our readers needed to hear him speak obviously a little more personal in terms of talk about the Holy Spirit. It is actually a spooky
again. storyline and that came in a little closer and story as Jesus says I am going to jet, but I’m
it was the prodigal story. One that we can all going to leave my Ghost with you. I had never
[WM] I am assuming, I Know A Ghost is not identify with, except I was also kind of tagging heard it told me in that way.
about Casper the Friendly Ghost. Tell us about onto the lavish nature of the word ‘prodigal’. the title track and the message of this song? That we have a lot sitting in our hands that we I think the problem started when I was cruising
are responsible for. It’s about rebellion and also through Netflix trying to find something to
[Crowder] You are correct. (laughing) Well it about inheritance and what do we do with what watch and I was thinking, “Man, how many
is about the Holy Ghost as you can probably we have put in our hands. movies are there? How many ghost stories are
imagine. This record is the third record in the
out there?” We tell ghost stories all the time.
little cycle of things… you know how I kind of And this one, I Know A Ghost, is like the after- What I love most about what I do is when I think
work in three’s. party, the prodigal comes home and there is a I am scratching at something true, there is a
December 2018
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