I would love it if I could just not have to stand on a stage for a year.”( laughing) Boy did that come true.( laughs)
So it was a really nice reset in a lot of ways. And I’ m finding myself now sort of re-approaching everything, kind of trying to look through the lens of‘ what am I finding that God is giving me a real passion for in this next season?’ And it’ s that scripture that says,“ Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.” And if you unpack that whole thing, it’ s translated that if you’ re delighting yourself in God and walking according to the spirit, not according to the flesh, that he’ ll actually put in you what he wants you to want.
And it’ s good to pay attention to that calling and those nudgings to go like,“ Wow, I really enjoy this and I’ m really passionate about it and I probably should lean into this.” And so yeah, touring for me is again … we’ re just now kind of re-racking all of that and figuring out what that will look like. I don’ t think I tour as hard as I did 10 years ago. It was pretty brutal. But you never know. Also, I could end up going, I got invited to go on this tour, I’ m going to do it. Honestly I’ m just open to whatever God is telling me. Who knows?( laughing)
[ WM ] Any new music in the plans?
[ Linc ] Yeah, so the thing that’ s embarrassing is this instrumental record I’ ve been talking about for way too long. There are reasons I haven’ t done it and it’ s not like anybody cares about the reasons, but there are valid reasons and it’ s not like I’ ve ever decided to just not work on it. And even pre-COVID, there was just a lot going on and my wife was very sick multiple times. And there’ s just those seasons, and I think any creative knows that you don’ t, well, at least not for me, I don’ t have infinite energy for creativity all the time.
I suppose I’ m always working on something, but it’ s not always music. I’ m a very project-oriented person. And so yeah, the timing has never come together how I hoped it would. That said, I think sometimes you go through seasons of life and you go,“ Gosh, why isn’ t this coming together? I hoped and man, this has taken forever or why don’ t I feel the motivation or creativity to do it?” And I think paired with the fear of being judged as a player in instrumental music has been a factor … versus Christian pop music, where as far as guitar went, the goal was to try to make enough room for an eight-bar solo and there was no way I could say everything I had to say in those eight bars. So there’ s been some safety net in that you’ re never showing everything when you make a record. With instrumental music there’ s no rules and no limits as a player. For me that feels intimidating.
But the nice thing is that as it’ s been coming together in this last season and as I’ ve gotten to really crank on it again, it’ s like a whole new experience for me. I’ m having a blast doing
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