What do you say to worship teams and artists the band. I feel like I’ve fought with some of [WM] The Mobile area is rich in history and
going through the inevitable struggles that are the other guys sometimes just because when heritage. In fact, Mobile Bay was originally
inherent within the chemistry of a music group people are gone from home there is stress and called “The Bay of the Holy Spirit”. Were there
and the human condition in general? all of this stuff. But we just kept showing up influences upon the band’s origins that were
together, and that was the thing. Whether you derived from a Gulf Coast culture?
[Mike] Gosh, you know, there were a lot of feel like your heart is in it or whether you don’t, nights when we were hurting really bad in we’re just showing up and finding that God can [Mike] I think because we were all in church
some of those seasons. Jay, my brother who do something even is spite of all of us. on the Gulf Coast, from Pensacola to Mobile,
plays bass with Big Daddy Weave and has
that there definitely is that flavor. People kind
been through some of the craziest times, I do think another thing for us is trying to give of hear a certain “Southerness” to what we
would just say that sometimes we just have to each other some space to just kind of be who do. Whether it was encountering God at the
show up because that’s all we can really bring. we are. Outside of playing on the road we’re Brownsville Revival, or just being in any of the
Sometimes in the scope of what can happen in not all hanging out together after it’s all over. We hundreds of little churches that we played in
the Lord, it’s pretty insignificant what we bring usually just immediately kind of explode off the the beginning. I think it’s definitely in our roots
to the table, you know what I mean? But what bus and are headed back into our family lives, and very evident that we’re from the Gulf Coast.
we do have to do is to show up, we still have being dads and husbands, and we all give each It’s incredible who ends up down there and in
to go, and if there is anything that is on our end other the space to go do that in the way we feel different seasons of life, and it leads you to
it was just that. Honestly, I felt like even as we like we need to. asking, “Why here?”, but you do see these
were “showing up”, there were a lot of nights
footprints over decades of the Lord doing
where the Lord was having to carry us. There So, if there are any two things, they are to keep
have been times when the five of us would showing up, and to give each other space
fight like brothers, and my brother is really in when you’re together.
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things down in that area.
[WM] One of the things about BDW that I
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