and they just don’t know what to do, they feel mistakes that would have been great to fix, but
trapped, they’re scared. And what can you say I think worship should feel real. It comes across
in that moment? When God speaks everything so fake sometimes. That doesn’t make it better
else fades away. It hasn’t happened a lot, but than anything, we probably could have done a
those moments in my life where I know that better job, but it just feels more authentic to me,
God has spoken to me, I just feel so much and feels real.
peace come over me. And we have people that
need peace, so what are some lyrics that say I’m Listening So, we pulled in probably a hundred people,
that? tell us about this project and the three new I just posted on Facebook, “Hey, who wants
songs on it, “Valley”, “Center Stage”, and to come worship with us?” The way we did it
“What A Friend”? was we just worshipped through the set twice.
So we sat down and wrote that, and we put
So we had a set, we went through it twice and
it on the record. Honestly there were so many
songs on that record, and we had no one at [Chris] For every project I’ll try and write as we left the space. I think one of them we just
the record company saying, “Hey, this one is many songs as I possibly can. This time around played straight through, like the way we had
the song” or, “This is going to be the single”. I had that EP, I had the Jesus Culture project, planned to play the songs. Then the second
There wasn’t a ton of excitement around it. which we’re actually recording this weekend, time we went through it we just left all this
But when Air1 Radio switched over to playing and then I had the church project. I knew I had open space to chase after whatever the Lord
worship music, they just randomly played it. to write songs for all of those individual things. was doing in the room. It was just such a fun
And they didn’t ask anyone, they just started So in the beginning of the year knowing that experience at Ocean Way Studios, which is
playing it, and they put it into their heaviest was all coming I just put my head down and I an amazing place. I could complain about the
rotation possible, so like eighty spins a week probably wrote sixty songs. Then we took the music industry, I don’t a lot, but I could, and
plus. The song just kind of took off on its own, best of those and narrowed that down and then I get to do stuff like this, and it was all
which is crazy. Its fun, because I never know worked on maybe five, and then we actually because Capitol Christian got some money and
what people are going to like, you know, you recorded three. made it happen. And it was beautiful. The night
was beautiful, and it was such a fun thing.
write songs and you have ideas but that was
such a fun surprise.
You talked about how it was live, but in the
studio. One of the things that I have always [WM] Do you find that you tend to get song
So, because of the Air1 thing and “I’m listening” wanted to do was to make an actual live ideas first from experiences and situations, or
taking off, the record label then came knocking record where you don’t go back and fix all of from specific Scriptures?
and we re-recorded some parts and made an the things. We sat down with Jacob Sooter, actual radio version which they then pushed who is married to Meredith Andrews. He’s an [Chris] When I think of how I want to connect
out to stations all over the U.S. It was a whole amazing songwriter and producer. And when in worship it starts on an emotional level, so it
new experience for me, I’ve never tried for we sat down to make this record I told him definitely starts out of experiences. But, having
radio, it hasn’t been on my radar. Honestly I’m that honestly, I just wanted to make a record said that, what I’ll do after I write a song is
just a worship leader. that’s actually live. I think we did it. If you look make sure that every lyric will tie to Scripture in
at the tracks after we recorded, what we kept some way. Because I think what we’re doing is
[WM] And how did the new EP, Fill This Place, and the little fixes that we made, the little fixes important. People sing these songs, and they
come about? Were the songs written over a are so minuscule. This is the most live record probably remember these more than they do
long period of time? I love how you recorded that I’ve ever made, and maybe the most live the message. So, I want to make sure that
it live, yet in a recording studio, and how that record someone’s made in a long time. It’s very they are anchored in Scripture. I’ll go through a
worship was captured as it happened. Please live and we kept all of the parts, and even a few song and if it’s confusing, then I’ll re-write it. I’ve
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