1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:03,600 Speaker 1: Life audio. 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:05,720 Speaker 2: Hey Emerson, thanks for joining me. 3 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 3: Hey Emerson, Day devil Ward nominated artist as AH song 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 3: Get Behind Me. I love that song. You have fascinator, 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 3: You have a fascinating bio. Emerson, he played lacrosse in college. 6 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 3: You planned to go into I think law enforcement. Tell 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 3: us about that and how in the world did you 8 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 3: end up in Christian music after that unique background? 9 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:32,919 Speaker 4: Yeah, So the plan for me was always to do 10 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 4: law enforcement. Actually, I think since I was probably fifteen 11 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,199 Speaker 4: or so, that was what I wanted to do. And 12 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 4: so when I graduated college, I was offered a special 13 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,279 Speaker 4: agent position right out of college with a three letter agency, 14 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 4: and that, for me, was my dream job. 15 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: I was like, I've made it. This is my dream job. 16 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 4: And the way that that world kind of works is 17 00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 4: you got to go through a background in a polygraph 18 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 4: and like all of these things. 19 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: And so it took nine to twelve months. 20 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 4: So I moved back in with my parents after college, 21 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 4: and during those nine months of kind of just waiting 22 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 4: to go to training, I picked up a guitar again 23 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 4: and I started writing again, and singing and music had 24 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 4: always been a huge part of my life, but I 25 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 4: never viewed it as a career path or you know, 26 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 4: never thought I'm going to pursue this and any professional capacity. 27 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: And I was so into sports growing up. 28 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 4: That's kind of all I cared about was lacrosse and 29 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,400 Speaker 4: you know, playing at the collegiate level and then law enforcement. 30 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,400 Speaker 4: So I start playing, and I start writing and singing, 31 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,760 Speaker 4: and the Holy Spirit just used that time to really 32 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 4: just work on my heart and speak to me. And 33 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 4: I can remember so clearly hearing you know, this is 34 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 4: what you're supposed to do. Like this is what you're 35 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 4: supposed to do. 36 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 1: And you know, at first I was like no, like 37 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: that cannot be it. 38 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,560 Speaker 4: You know, like i just got my dream job and 39 00:01:58,080 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 4: you know, I'm doing all the things and all my way. 40 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 4: There's no way that that can be it, you know. 41 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 4: And for that entire year, I wrestled with that decision. 42 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:09,839 Speaker 4: And they called me and they said, hey, we're ready 43 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 4: for you to come to training. And at this point 44 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:13,839 Speaker 4: in time, the Lord and I had had a lot 45 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 4: of long conversations about this, and so I turned them 46 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 4: down right there on the phone and they're like, hey, 47 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 4: you know, I can't help you if you realize you 48 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 4: made a mistake, Like in a week or in a 49 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 4: month or whatever, like this is done, like off the 50 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 4: table done? 51 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: Are you sure? 52 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 4: And I was like no, not, but I was like, yeah, 53 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 4: I'm just I gotta try this those things, you know, 54 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 4: and hung up the phone. And it was the most 55 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 4: peace that I'd had in that entire year. And so 56 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 4: I knew, like, Okay, this, this is from God, this 57 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:46,320 Speaker 4: is what I'm supposed to do. 58 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: But I had no idea what I was doing. 59 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 4: So I started playing out and doing you know, little 60 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 4: acoustic gigs like Thursday through Sunday on the weekends, and 61 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 4: started writing and you know, just asking God really for 62 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,040 Speaker 4: what the next step was going to be. And really 63 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 4: five or six years went by, nothing happened, and I 64 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 4: really struggled with did I. 65 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: Hear this right? Is this you know? What? What for me? 66 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 4: And so that's like where that that first song I 67 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 4: released got ain't finished yet. That's where that came from 68 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 4: is just recognizing that I don't have to have all 69 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 4: the answers and have it figured out like I serve. 70 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: The one that does. 71 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,640 Speaker 4: That's all I need to know, so, you know, and 72 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 4: it's just funny that all of the time that I thought. 73 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:31,320 Speaker 1: You know, was being quote unquote wasted I'm like, I 74 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: thought we were doing music. God, Like, what what's happening here? 75 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 4: You know, like it really wasn't Like everything from lacrosse 76 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 4: to law enforcement to the time that I spent, you know, 77 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 4: working my way up, like nothing is wasted by God, 78 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 4: and he was just so faithful continue to open doors 79 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 4: for me. And eight years later now here we are 80 00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 4: so pretty crazy. 81 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 3: You've probably got lots of songs out of that, and 82 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,680 Speaker 3: you'll probably continue to get songs out of that and 83 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 3: the future. 84 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 2: That's something that's that's yeah, that's the plot twist right there. 85 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 3: So you could have Did you grow up playing the 86 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 3: guitar though? I mean, I guess you sang early in life. 87 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 3: I mean you said you picked up a guitar again, 88 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 3: So I picked up a You picked up a guitar 89 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 3: again for the first time since what? 90 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, So I grew up singing and writing, maybe even 91 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 4: writing before. I was singing, like in church as a 92 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,640 Speaker 4: little girl. I've got songbooks my mom has saved from 93 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:26,000 Speaker 4: as young as eight years old, I was writing songs 94 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 4: and so it was always in me. It was always there, 95 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 4: And I grew up singing in church. And then when 96 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 4: I was sixteen, I learned to play guitar because at 97 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 4: every family event, my grandparents would make me like sing 98 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,240 Speaker 4: for the family, Like I don't know why that was 99 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 4: the thing, and you know, it was really cute when 100 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 4: I was little, But then as I got older, I 101 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 4: was like, man, I have got to learn to play 102 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 4: an instrument, so I'm not just singing a cappella, you know, 103 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 4: like for. 104 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 1: My family, that is all that. 105 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 4: Well. 106 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 3: I was going to ask you about lacrosse though, because 107 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 3: lacrosse isn't as bard that everybody plays we play. 108 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 2: Are you okay? Are you having audio trouble there? Emerson? 109 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 4: No? Sorry, I muted it just a second because my 110 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 4: dog barking. 111 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 1: I don't know if you could hear that. 112 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 3: Now, that's okay. We're pro dog on the show. We 113 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 3: love dogs, so keep the dog's marking. 114 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 4: Okay. Well, I fixed to the I checked my hand, 115 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 4: and I'm like, can you come and get the dog. 116 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 2: I was looking at you, thinking what's going on there? 117 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 4: No. 118 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 2: I was going to ask you about lacrosse though, because we're. 119 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 3: A football country, a basketball country, a baseball country, a 120 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 3: little bit of a soccer country. 121 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 2: But lacrosse is not a top five sport. So how 122 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 2: did you, how did you How did you get into lacrosse? 123 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 4: So, lacrosse where I grew up in Maryland is our football, 124 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 4: Like it is kind of the big thing where I'm at. 125 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 4: Like our lacrosse games usually on Friday nights, we're bigger 126 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 4: than the football games of Friday. Like that was just 127 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 4: for whatever reason, the way my school was and how 128 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 4: our area was, so lacrosse was really big. But my 129 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:00,320 Speaker 4: brother was playing first at the time, and he was 130 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 4: ten years older than me. I just thought he was 131 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 4: the coolest person ever, and so if he was doing it, 132 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,760 Speaker 4: I'm like, I want to do that, you know. So 133 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 4: I started playing at around six or seven years old, 134 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 4: and at the time they only had a boys league, 135 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 4: and so I actually played in the boys league, like six, seven, eight, 136 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 4: probably even almost till I was ten until they. 137 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: Got a girls league. 138 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I had been playing pretty much, you know, 139 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 4: ever since at that point. 140 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: But yeah, it was just one of those things he 141 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 1: was into. 142 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,800 Speaker 4: I you know, fell in love with it and then 143 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 4: took it all the way to the college level. 144 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: I just loved playing it. 145 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:36,080 Speaker 2: What position were you? 146 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,839 Speaker 1: I was attack, which is offense offense. 147 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 3: Okay, and this is for those who don't know, this 148 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 3: is the it's kind of like a mix between hockey 149 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,280 Speaker 3: and I mean, you're catching it in that what do 150 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:48,159 Speaker 3: you call the stick? 151 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 2: Is it a stick? Yeah? 152 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 3: Stick it catch you to the stick and you throw 153 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 3: it to somebody else and you're trying to get into 154 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 3: the call. It's a fun sport to watch. But you're 155 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 3: the only lacrosse player I've ever known in my life, 156 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,360 Speaker 3: So I had to ask you about I'm a big 157 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 3: sports fan. 158 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 2: What would you have done in law enforcement? 159 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 4: Though? 160 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 3: Would this have been a desk job had you've been 161 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 3: out on the field. What did you even know at 162 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:18,040 Speaker 3: the time what you might have done? 163 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 4: You know, I think you get your assignment kind of 164 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 4: after training, like a little bit later. Like my assignment 165 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 4: was for a special agent position, so I definitely would 166 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:28,920 Speaker 4: have been in the field. But they have different like 167 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 4: sub sects within each agency. So ATF is alcohol, tobacco, firearms, 168 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 4: so you could do any one of those things, you know, 169 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 4: I mean, violent crime is what they target. But there's 170 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 4: also like they have their own arsenal unit, they have 171 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 4: their own like there's tons of things that you could 172 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 4: find yourself in within you know, ATF. 173 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 3: Okay, So ATF was what you were trying to get into. Okay, 174 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 3: you're in music. Now you have an album, Gotting Finished 175 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 3: Jet and a track getting behind Me. 176 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 2: Tell me the story behind the song get behind Me? 177 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:06,239 Speaker 1: Yeah. 178 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 4: So that one, I feel like was really being written 179 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 4: years ago. It was something my grandmother used to tell 180 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 4: us kids growing up. Anytime I can remember going to 181 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 4: her and being worried about something or just like anxious 182 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 4: or afraid, like as a young girl. 183 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 1: She had this little thing that she taught us. 184 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,360 Speaker 4: She's like, those feelings do not come from our heavenly father, 185 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 4: those come from the enemy. And she would say, this 186 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 4: little thing, you need to say three times, you know, devil, 187 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:33,439 Speaker 4: get behind me. 188 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: In the name of the Lord. And you would say 189 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: it every time. 190 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 4: You would get it like a little bit stronger, with 191 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,400 Speaker 4: a little more authority, and then you would forget about 192 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 4: it and you would move on from whatever it was. 193 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:44,720 Speaker 4: And doing that as a kid, I can remember the 194 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 4: piece that I got just instantly, and so it taught 195 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 4: me who really fights for me and who really holds 196 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:53,600 Speaker 4: the ultimate victory? 197 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 1: Who was in control? 198 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 4: But I wanted to write a song about it to 199 00:08:57,679 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 4: give that to other people and allow them to be 200 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:03,440 Speaker 4: able to speak that over their own lives, because you know, 201 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 4: the Bible tells us very clearly that spiritual warfare is real, 202 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 4: and I think sometimes like we don't talk about it 203 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 4: a lot or enough, and it's one of those things 204 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 4: where it's real and it talks about him prowling around 205 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:19,560 Speaker 4: like a roaring lion, and so it's like why not 206 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 4: call on the only one true it, you know? And 207 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,200 Speaker 4: so that's why you hear it in the song three 208 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 4: times as well for like nod to uh my grandmother. 209 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: But you know, the whole song. In my mind when we. 210 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 4: Produced it, I was like, I kind of want this 211 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 4: thing to start out like like a freight train. 212 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: It just goes and it does not stop till until 213 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: the end. 214 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 4: You know. I love it. 215 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:44,960 Speaker 3: I love it, And it's still on the Christian Airplay 216 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 3: Chart on the Billboard Chrisian Airplay Chart. 217 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 2: I was checking that today. 218 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 3: I think it's that's end here, So yeah, it's just 219 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 3: still up there. The latest one is This House Won't Fall, and. 220 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 2: That's a that's an awesome song as well. It's really 221 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 2: poetic and in terms of it's. 222 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 3: Kind of like based on is it based on scripture 223 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 3: and Jesus words and the New testament or what's what's 224 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 3: the base. 225 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 4: It really was based off of Matthew seven twenty five. 226 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 4: I believe it is twenty five and twenty six. Maybe 227 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,079 Speaker 4: it might be both, but you know, it just talks 228 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 4: about how when the wind and the rain and the 229 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 4: storms come, and it's so true because we are not 230 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 4: promised butterflies and rainbows following Jesus in this life, and 231 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 4: so it's when the storms come, Okay, what do we have? 232 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 1: What are we standing on? And I love the idea this. 233 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 4: Imagery, you know, that verse kind of paints this picture 234 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:36,320 Speaker 4: of one stone at a time, you're building my testimony 235 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 4: because for me, my faith was not built just overnight 236 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 4: because I decided to follow Jesus. 237 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: It was because my faith was at Him. 238 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 4: But so much of it was walking through life with 239 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 4: Jesus and learning, you know, that faithfulness I talked about 240 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 4: with music and all these career decisions and you know, 241 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 4: some craziness, but that song really just talks about building 242 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:05,559 Speaker 4: up those building blocks of faith and testimony and strengthening 243 00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 4: that on the foundation of Christ so that when you know, 244 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 4: those storms come, our. 245 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 1: Foundation is in Him. 246 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:16,240 Speaker 4: And I just really wanted a song that talked about 247 00:11:16,240 --> 00:11:18,640 Speaker 4: that and represented that in my own life. And you know, 248 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 4: again for people to be able to sing over their own. 249 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 3: How would you describe your own style of music? 250 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 2: And there seems to be a blend of several styles there. 251 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:28,679 Speaker 2: What would you say? 252 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, I usually say I usually say to people a 253 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 4: little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, but 254 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,080 Speaker 4: I love Jesus and so it's all in there together. 255 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's a unique bland, a little bit of 256 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 3: of soul in there as well. 257 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 2: Here some of that in there. 258 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 3: Final questions for I actually tell people Emerson day Music 259 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,920 Speaker 3: dot Com as the website. I believe the other Emerson 260 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 3: Day that was a photographer, they get the website first, 261 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 3: but Emerson day music dot Com is the website. 262 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 2: What do you want fans to take away from your music, Emerson? 263 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 4: You know? 264 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: The biggest thing for me, Well, I guess it would 265 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 1: be two things. I would say. 266 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 4: The first biggest thing is I hope they walk away 267 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,360 Speaker 4: with their own experience with God through that music. I 268 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,439 Speaker 4: hope that they would encounter God in a new way, 269 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 4: or He would reveal himself in a different part of 270 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 4: their story, maybe something they haven't you know, thought of. 271 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:29,680 Speaker 4: And all of the people that I meet out on 272 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 4: the road and all of the stories that I hear. 273 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:35,680 Speaker 4: It's so crazy to me because I never thought a 274 00:12:35,840 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 4: song I wrote sitting on my couch in my living 275 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 4: room would end up be healing for somebody or would 276 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 4: end up be freeing for somebody, and so like it's 277 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,440 Speaker 4: so hard for me to put my finger on you know, 278 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,439 Speaker 4: because it's such an emotional thing for me, Like I 279 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 4: never thought that get by me on my couch writing 280 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 4: that would be so liberating for so many people, Like 281 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 4: what a gift. And so my hope is just that 282 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 4: continues to happen, Like I always have felt like the 283 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 4: messenger and just the vessel. And so if God continues 284 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 4: to use me to put songs out like I just 285 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 4: would hope and pray that He would continue to. 286 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: Feed his people with them, you know, and people would just. 287 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 4: Be able to encounter and have their own experience with 288 00:13:22,679 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 4: God through the music. 289 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 5: If you enjoyed today's interview, please make sure to subscribe 290 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,560 Speaker 5: and share the episode with a friend. 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