Worship Musician Magazine September 2020 | Page 15

for people to hear. In a record full of big names,
to end a record with someone no one’s ever
heard of, and with a song that I think everyone
will be like, what is that and who is this artist?
That’s what’s happening because this song is
so powerful.
The story behind this song is Blessings from
Nigeria grew up with lots of siblings and he’s
been in Nashville for a while now. He said, “I
remember the sound of rain on a tin roof”,
because he had a tin roof with those African
rains at night. He said, “I remember that sound,
and that’s what makes me think of home. And
when I think about heaven, I think about heaven
as home, and so I hope in some way it’s that
sound of rain on a tin roof.” And when he was
telling met this I was just tearing up. So I said,
“Can you record this song on the record?” The
studio was on shutdown and all these kinds of
things, and my record was pretty much done,
so I thought how could we record this. Blessing
just said, “I’ll just do it myself and send it to you.”
So what you hear is him at the piano and doing
his vocal by himself and recording himself. All
the rest of the record is done by producers and
with arrangers, and he did that by himself, he’s
that good. It’s just so special, and I came on
a couple weeks later and sang on it. But he’s
incredible, he’s got such a heart for God, and
he’s got an incredible story, and I hope that
more and more people hear this song.
[WM] And the song called “Thank You Lord”
is so joyful and expresses gratitude in such a
great way. It’s like a Country music Psalm! Tell
us about this one as well?
Thank You Lord
[Chris] “Thank You Lord” is just a great picture
of the record, it’s all the worlds coming together
between Thomas Rhett, Florida Georgia Line
and myself, and all sounds and the DNA and
the differences that we bring to the music, you
feel that in this song. There is so much joy in
this song, and I’ve said forever that worship
comes from a grateful heart, and to live with
a grateful heart. Especially in these moments,
what a song for this time and these hard times.
It is a thank you to God for all the small things in
life, all the things we take for granted, and the
chorus is all the big things in life, our parents,
our friends, our spouse, our family, all those
things that we’re so thankful for. But I love the
second verse, “Thank you Lord for the hard
times”, because you don’t really say that in the
hard times, no one really says thank you when
you’re going through it, but when you’re looking
back it’s like, thank you for what you brought
me through. I am who I am because of that,
and thank you for never giving up on me and
for the patience that you’ve shown me. Those
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