[WM] Can you tell me about the production good gauge if the song is really connecting with our everyday interactions with others, both in
process of the song? Had you ever tried out the people or if it is not. I knew before I released it social media and face-to-face encounters?
song before you recorded it for release? that it was already connecting with people in a
really significant way just from that tour.
[Cody] I produced it with David Leonard
[Cody] It’s just such a sad thing that’s
happening in our country. I think about that
from All Sons & Daughters, because he’s an [WM] Who are your favorite songwriters that person in this scenario that did that. All along
amazing producer. It was really fun, getting have had great influence upon you? his journey, what kind of people was he in
into the technical side of it, David has a lot of
contact with? What kind of people like me, who
amazing vintage keyboards and synths, and [Cody] As far as people that I admire as love Jesus, who knows what kind of people he
he’s got a lot of toys in his studio. He doesn’t songwriters, I’m a huge fan of Ryan Fetter, came across all of his life until that point? I start
do a whole lot of stuff in the box and with plug- I’ve always been. Anything that he works on, to think about the people I come across, and
ins, he just has a lot of real stuff. He has the produces, anything he does with One Republic who am I coming across today, and tomorrow,
keyboard called a DX7, which if you think of the and all of the other artists that he works with, and the next day, that I’m supposed to just
nineties worship keyboard Michael W. Smith I’ve always been a fan of his. He has that new electric piano sound, the bell piano, that’s what show out, Songland, that’s on NBC that’s an that DX7 sounds like. I remember being in the amazing reality show about songwriting. I’m a studio kind of playing around with it. I just love huge fan of that, he’s kind of up near the top how nostalgic it feels. So, he was like, “Let’s for me. use it”. So, the piano sound you hear in that Then as far as people I’ve worked with, I really song is with a blending of an upright. I played love Matt Duran, he’s had a huge impact on me an upright on the song, and then we ended from working with him on “Run to the Father”. up using the midi and running it back through I really love writing with Jason Ingram, I love the DX7 and tracked the DX7 as well with the writing with anyone from the Hillsong campus piano part that I played. So the blend that you or Bethel campus. It’s always a great time. hear is kind of that old school electric piano There’s so many. Every person is so unique, sound blended in with an upright piano. And I everybody has their own perspective on God love that, it gives it that nostalgic nuance to the and songwriting, and you glean something piano sound. It was really fun working with him really beautiful from people. It’s such a fun thing on that song. to be able to collaborate with people and sit
You never know
what one small
word or one
small act of
service or love or
invitation could
do for someone,
in a room with somebody, you take something
I also did a tour with Elevation Worship back away from that every time. I feel fortunate to
in March, and I had just written a song right be able to have written with some of the best
before that. I was putting my set together for writers in our worship world, and have been
that tour and thought this song is one of the impacted by all of them, every one of them has
best songs I have right now, why would I not had an impact on me.
to the moments. It was really fun. I did it twenty- [WM] Cody, you have an extensive touring
five times on that tour without it being released diary this year, and one of the many cities
and it was so special. Every night I’d get on my where you will soon be touring and leading
Instagram and people were asking, “What was worship in is El Paso, TX. El Paso has been in
that “heart needs a surgeon” song? Can you all of our hearts and prayers recently with the
tell me where to find it?” I’d have to tell them its despicable and wicked shootings last month.
not out yet and that I had just written it. It was a Our society is clearly breaking down, and the
bit of a process getting it out and I had so many mass-shooting scenario is only one of the
people say when I released it saying, “Finally, symptoms. How can worship leaders take the
I’ve been waiting for this song since the tour!” Kingdom into the community? How should
So, I learned I like doing that, introducing songs acts of worship manifest themselves outside of
before I record them and release them. Whether Sunday morning church services and worship
you’re at church or on tour, it kind of gives you a nights? What does “real worship” look like in
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powerful that is.
share the love of Jesus with. There are so
just do it? Let’s just bring it to the tour, bring it
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and how
many times I’ve felt nudged to say something
or pray for somebody and I haven’t. I just don’t
want to because its awkward, or you could
think of a million reasons why you don’t do it.
But it challenges me, because what if I came
across that person at some point in my life
and I just didn’t do it, I didn’t do something
that would have planted the seed of love for
Jesus in somebody’s life? If that person had
had a true encounter with Jesus, not like a
religious experience or just going to church, but
a true encounter with Jesus, it wouldn’t have
happened. The love of Jesus permeates every
part of you and it changes you. It casts out hate
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