CHRIS TOMLIN
+ FRIENDS
By Alexander MacDougall
[WM] Chris, I’ve been really looking forward to
this time and I love your new record for reasons
that we will get into.
[Chris Tomlin] Thank you, I appreciate it.
[WM] Chris Tomlin and Friends, your new
release, is yet another surprise for 2020, but
this time a good one! In fact, you’ve called
this record “the surprise record of my life”.
To understand this record, readers need to
understand your upbringing and your roots,
hailing from Northeast Texas. Growing up when
and where you did, you must have had so many
Texas country music influences: Waylon, Jerry
Jeff, George Strait, George Jones, Bob Wills,
Ernest Tubb, Kris Kristofferson - Lord, there are
so many! And of course, Willie Nelson. Can you
tell us about this time in your life?
[Chris] That’s a great intro, and it is true. My
Dad played guitar with me when I was nine years
old, and he really started teaching me to play
when I was a kid. It was interesting, because it
6 September 2020
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