1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:06,760 Speaker 1: Life Audio, Jeremy and Cody, Welcome to Crosswalk Talk. Thanks 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:09,239 Speaker 1: for joining me. Thanks, Lock, were glad to be here. 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:10,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, you met Banks. 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: Jeremy and Cody of the Van Reeves. That's who's joining 5 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:17,920 Speaker 1: us today. They have a new single Outrun You, and 6 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: they have one of the most unique bios in Christian 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: music today. They are third generation construction workers. They are 8 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: pastor's kids. There as many pastors kids, but not third 9 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 1: generation construction workers. But they're in the Christian music business 10 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 1: and they have a new they've recently signed with Centricity, 11 00:00:37,080 --> 00:00:38,800 Speaker 1: And I want to ask you guys, how did you, 12 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:42,280 Speaker 1: guys discover that you had a talent not just for 13 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: construction but for music. 14 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 2: Oh, but yeah, I would say that as far as 15 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,880 Speaker 2: construction goes, from the time we were teenagers, we started 16 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 2: going to work with their dad. I went to public 17 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 2: school up until junior high, and then my dad moved 18 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 2: as a pastor to another church and he was always vocational. 19 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 2: After that, just kind of decided to homeschool from that 20 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 2: boyd so that I could work and learn construction and 21 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 2: then do school also in the in the Eden ends 22 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 2: and they've kind of bounced back and forth there, but anyway, 23 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 2: we knew that we wanted to do physical labor. It'd 24 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,720 Speaker 2: really enjoyed working with our dad, and I kind of 25 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 2: wanted to carry that on. So I wouldn't say that 26 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 2: construction was a bored talent. It was learned. Okay, we 27 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 2: about the hard work. But as far as music goes, 28 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 2: I played guitar for a band early on. I had 29 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 2: really loved music, grew up loving music, and they wrote 30 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 2: their own songs, so that kind of inspired me to 31 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 2: try to write some of our own songs. And so 32 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 2: that's kind of how it got started for me. And 33 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 2: then Cody came up quickly behind me. I was singing, 34 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: and it was evident that he was definitely going to 35 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 2: be a singer. So yeah, just kind of started early on, 36 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 2: I guess in our preteens. 37 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 1: And you guys are balancing construction jobs with with with 38 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: your music talents in your music career. How do you 39 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: how does your day to day lives in this manual 40 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: labor of construction, How does that influence your creative process 41 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,240 Speaker 1: and you know, your authenticity as artist? How do those 42 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: two mix together? Yeah? 43 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 3: So honestly, our life right now is pretty strange. It 44 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:28,480 Speaker 3: almost feels like we have two blobs going on at 45 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 3: the same time. So you know, Monday through Friday, we're 46 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 3: doing construction. We're usually on a remodel or on a 47 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 3: metal roof or build a new house. And you know, 48 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 3: we usually have like phone calls in the evenail and 49 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 3: are like we're having to take breaks and skip lunch 50 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 3: to do things like that. But you know, I'm super 51 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,800 Speaker 3: thankful that we have that opportunity. Honestly, God has allowed 52 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 3: us and and us honestly construction to be able to 53 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:57,239 Speaker 3: allow us to do this construction and being self employed 54 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 3: is Honestly, if we didn't have that, I don't believe 55 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 3: we would have been able to do to do music. 56 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 2: But also just. 57 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 3: You know, for us, we're working men and we go 58 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 3: to work every day, and for us, it inspired us 59 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:15,399 Speaker 3: to to write music and songs that those same kind 60 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 3: of men, you know, the blue collar working men, you know, 61 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 3: working families, just you know, the people out there that 62 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 3: are doing pretty much the same thing we're doing and 63 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 3: writing songs that encourage those kind of people and to 64 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 3: uplift them and also to share the gospel with the 65 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 3: average person who will probably not go listen to some 66 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 3: mainstream stuff. You know, having a unique sound hopefully that 67 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 3: that those people want to listen to. And I think 68 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,960 Speaker 3: God uses the sound of the music to therein they 69 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 3: hear the message of the gospel through one of our songs. 70 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: I like your social media page bio it says followers 71 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: of Jesus and two bros from Texas, And that's that's 72 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 1: kind that's kind of who you guys are from when 73 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: I from when I can tell, does everyone that you 74 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: work with on the job on your construction where do 75 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: they all know that you're singing on the side? Yes, okay? 76 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:08,120 Speaker 1: And how do they how do they react to that? 77 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: Do they find it fascinating? Do they want you to 78 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:12,520 Speaker 1: sing on the jobs and maybe entertain everybody? 79 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 2: It's funny a lot of times, you know, people go 80 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 2: to work with us and they'll be like, man, I 81 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 2: was I would think that you guys would be singing 82 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 2: all day. 83 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 3: We're wrapping out. 84 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 2: We got the rest at some point. No, But I 85 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 2: mean a lot of the guys that and people that 86 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 2: we work for, I mean, we'll go I was just 87 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 2: on a job recently, a cabinet job, and they had 88 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 2: no idea that we didn't need it, and they kind 89 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:42,400 Speaker 2: of kept asking questions about you know us traveling and 90 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 2: and you know you traveling all the weekends and ask 91 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 2: them what we do, and they kind of pick until 92 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 2: they figured out that this is what we do. And 93 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 2: and usually I feel like what we do wins of 94 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,239 Speaker 2: some esthetic, which with people who may not typically listen 95 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 2: to Christian music. H now they usually give us a shot. 96 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,440 Speaker 2: And it's been awesome to it. And I have some 97 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 2: new followers just from jobs that we do or you know, 98 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:10,159 Speaker 2: people that work with us, So it's really neat. I 99 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 2: feel like I uses it. 100 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,560 Speaker 1: Your new song, outrun New, let's chat about that for 101 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 1: a second. Outrun You was co written with the Jeff 102 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: part of everybody who follows CCM knows that name. What's 103 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: the story behind the song? Outrun You? 104 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 2: Oh man, that's such a special song, and that song 105 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 2: right in and of itself was an answer to prayer 106 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 2: and a dream for us. We had never overwritten up 107 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 2: until we signed with Centricity. Only Cody and I were 108 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 2: doing all of the writing, and so I was a 109 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 2: little nervous about going into a songwright. But I had 110 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 2: heard some songs that was kind of down the lane 111 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 2: that we were wanting to write and say in some 112 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 2: of the things that we want to say, and I 113 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 2: noticed that one day kept popping up and it was 114 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,360 Speaker 2: Jeff Pardo and I'm intally into a couple of different 115 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 2: people that we were working with at the time, my 116 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,479 Speaker 2: block and a producer that helped us while we were independent. 117 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 2: I said, Man, if there's ever a way, I would 118 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 2: love to rock with this guy's at party after we signed. 119 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 2: That ended up being the first Saul ride that we got. 120 00:06:21,279 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 2: Just by circumstances, nobody knew that we wanted to write 121 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 2: with him even and uh so the Lord kind of 122 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 2: worked that out and we brought an idea into the 123 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 2: saw ride and it was kind of down the alley 124 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 2: of Outrunning You, and we got to talking about our 125 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 2: testimonies and everything. Just it felt like God was moving 126 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 2: us to just share our testimony and uh and how 127 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 2: we came to another Lord and so that turned into 128 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 2: the song out Run You. But it's just a story 129 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 2: of both Mandy Cody's testimony of just how the Lord 130 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 2: really pursued us and some of the most in some 131 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 2: of the most which where we really were running from 132 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 2: the Lord or are we're not necessarily pursuing a relationship 133 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 2: with him, but he met us in the middle of 134 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 2: our darkest moments in our lives, and we came to 135 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,679 Speaker 2: know Jesus in the same year and had no idea 136 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 2: that each that each other was struggling with a relationship 137 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 2: with Lord. So, uh, that's that's kind of where it 138 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 2: comes from. 139 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: Cody, how would you guys describe your sound? 140 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 4: Is it? 141 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: Is it country Christian? 142 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 3: So, you know, being from Texas being country guys, there 143 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:34,840 Speaker 3: there's not as genre we could sing that didn't ultimately 144 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 3: come out country. 145 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, we can't. 146 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:37,760 Speaker 1: We can't really have. 147 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 3: That hot the twang that we got, but yeah, I mean, 148 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 3: I guess we would consider it more like a country 149 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 3: southern rock Christian field because we grew up you know, 150 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 3: we love eighties music and we kind of grew up 151 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 3: listening to some eighties rock, so there's a little bit 152 00:07:52,480 --> 00:07:56,160 Speaker 3: of that influence and then just there's some country influence 153 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 3: because we can't hide it. 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