is like a spontaneous moment or something
I’ve been working on with my church in mind.
We’ll do a quick recording on an iPhone and
it usually makes the rounds, whether that is
with my pastor and the Capitol guys, or Jesus
Culture and the Capitol guys… and then I love
to get feedback from those guys where they’re
like, “Oh that works/that doesn’t work.” Then
we kind of narrow down to the songs we
want to dig into a little more and maybe refine.
Maybe there are ways to fix them and make
them better and then, for this record, there are
probably a third of them that I’ve been doing
in some capacity. Then the majority of them
though, I had never tried them live, which was
a little weird. So, the night we recorded was the
first time to really do a bunch of them. That was
really outside of my normal. I guess I felt a little
comfortable with it because we had narrowed
them down through such an open process… I
think we got the best songs for the record!
[WM] What do you do with the other 39 songs
that you wrote for this record?
[Chris] It’s so funny you asked that question
because I had that same thought the other
day! I just don’t know. I don’t know what you
do, because part of me says, “Well, there
were some really good parts in some of those!
I wonder if I can take some of the pieces of
those and refine them to make them better?”
and then another part of me is very aware
that maybe those songs are not for a broader
audience than just me and the other songwriter
and God. I don’t know… it is a weird feeling to
put so much effort into stuff and then (not use
it). I wrote a bunch of songs for the last record,
but it didn’t feel like this. This feels different.
[WM]
What
is
the
title
for
this
upcoming record?
love the song. I’ve heard several versions that
different artists are recording. Can you tell me
I recorded my record in December, and then in
about writing it and how so many artists picked
the first part of February we recorded the Jesus [Chris] I think it’s going to be called Culture record. So, I had different songs for Breakthrough. We also have a single coming those two records. I wrote a song called, “Yes out called, “Hallelujah for the Cross” and we [Chris] Um, well that song was such an easy
and Amen” that we ended up doing on both wanted to put it out for Good Friday and Easter, song to write, which they are not all that way.
records, but the other ones are all different. So so we rushed the process for that song. I just felt inspired! Nate Moore, the guy who
it was kind of like needing 14-15 tunes before
it was all over!
it up?
sings it on the Housefires record, brought an
[WM] You mentioned, “Yes and Amen.” I
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initial verse idea and just played the verse.
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