WEBVTT - Standing On An Imperfect Faith | Canaan Smith 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.080 Yeah, fire away, dude. I want to. I want to 0:00:02.080 --> 0:00:05.000 get a deeper as we can. I mean, a lot 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:09.200 of life has happened since we crossed past the last Yeah, 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:12.480 and I feel like we're very aligned in our goals. Yeah, 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:16.079 our go forward goals are very much aligned. So yeah's everything, 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.000 It's all. I was free open season. 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:21.160 I was talking to Amber last night and I said, 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.840 I said, when's the first time I met Canaan and 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.240 and I think I think it was you and Christy 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.640 were at an award show and we were like sitting 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:33.600 either next to each other or close to each other. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:34.320 Is that right? 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.120 Yeah, dude, totally right. I'm trying to remember which one 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:37.519 it was. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:38.080 It would be. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.680 It wasn't the CMTS. It might have been like the 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:47.519 the CMA's here in town. And then I remember, you're right, 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:48.080 we did. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.640 Another time early on this is this is kind of embarrassing, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:56.000 but we were and it's kind of a vague memory. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.520 We were somewhere, I think West Coast. We were on 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.480 tour and it was one of those days were just 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.760 bands are in and out, in and out, in and out, 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.920 and for some reason, I was just in a bad mood. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:11.200 It was like a poorly run festival, really hot, and 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:13.720 I remember seeing you and you were like coming off 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.160 the stage and you're really mad. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:16.560 And then I. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.520 Like, you like threw a drumk you like threw a 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:24.800 tomb or something a drum And I remember feeling so good. 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:26.880 I was like, oh good, somebody else has got the 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:31.000 same movie, dude. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.240 How many of those shows have we played where it 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:35.640 was just a total, you know, train wreck? 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.280 You know those thrown goes situations can be so so 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:44.319 frustrating man, And no, that doesn't surprise me. I will say, 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.600 I look back at there are definite moments in my 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.560 career where I look back and I'm like, I was 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:55.600 as much as as much fun as I had in 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:58.120 some of those peak moments, like when I had a 0:01:58.200 --> 0:01:59.760 hit on the radio and I was out there in 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:04.480 front of big, big crowds. All the rush of that 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.080 was exciting and fun. But when I look back on it, like, 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.680 the character that I'm looking at, the person that I'm 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.399 looking at from this side, is so different than who 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.880 I am now like, And I think that what you 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.040 just said that story is a perfect example of I 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.040 was missing it. I was I was just kind of 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.160 missing it, missing the point of it all, you know 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.040 what I mean. I just wanted everything to be perfect 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.160 and for what for me to make a bigger name 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.960 for myself so that everyone thought I had my stuff together, 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.800 you know, Like, I don't know, man, that's just as 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.760 a reminder to me. It's funny because I'm thankful now 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.440 I can laugh at that and I'm not mad at 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.280 myself anymore. But I went through a season of life 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.840 where I was like, really just discouraged at how I 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.720 was kind of handling my business and handling myself. 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:55.240 You know, yes, I do. I know, man, I lived it, 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.919 and I saw it in you and you probably saw 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.480 it in me. But that's the rat race that we 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.840 were living, you know, that was the hamster wheel we 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:09.200 were on. And if you think about like what the 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:13.840 things we saw and how the beautiful people in the 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:18.520 incredible country, and it's like we weren't really even enjoying 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.960 any of that at some level truly. 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.720 I know, dude, as much as I saw, I feel 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:24.560 like it's all a blur. 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.080 It's all a blur, you know. Yeah, So what was 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:31.200 the shift for you? How are you? How are you 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.000 sitting here now with a new perspective? 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:38.360 Kids? Oh? Yeah, you know, we had kids, and that 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.800 literally changed the game for me. Plus I walked away 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.280 well as let me rewind a little bit. I got 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.560 to the point where I was so lost as an artist. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.400 After we had Lovey like that it was a hit, 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.320 and then we followed it up with a song called 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.000 Hole in a Bottle and it was like twenty three 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.920 and it was just chugging along, you know, running out 0:03:59.920 --> 0:04:01.560 of gas. It felt like it wasn't going to make 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.560 it all the way and I was frustrated that, you know, 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.400 we couldn't do two in a row. Yeah, and I 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.240 wanted that momentum. And I was looking left and right 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.320 at everyone else and what they had going, and I 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:13.960 was like, why is my you know, why is this 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:18.480 not happening? Meanwhile, you got you know, a bunch of 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.760 people in your ear, you know about you know help. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:26.159 You know, decision making wasn't just from my gut or 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.599 my prayer, you know, time with God. It was a 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:31.880 bunch of advice from more than just me. You know 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:33.920 a lot of people, a lot of cooks in the kitchen. 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.880 And I felt lost in that process and I got lost. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.479 So I actually walked away from it as far as 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:44.440 like the record deal situation. I had a talk with 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:49.800 the CEO of the record label, Mike Dungan, who was 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.120 an awesome dude, and we hit it off really good. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.680 But I just went into him and I told him 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.920 how I felt, and I just laid it all out there. 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:58.440 I was like, I don't even know what I want 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.480 to do anymore. To be honest with you, man, I 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.080 don't know what I have to say as an artist. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.440 I'm completely I need to go find myself. Can you 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.960 let me out of this deal? He was he understood, 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:13.599 he's a he's an artist first, kind of label execut 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.919 in the first place. So like that was to my 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.920 advantage that he understood where I was coming from and 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.200 he and he supported that, you know, me going to 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.760 find myself again. So I walked away from it and 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:28.039 I shelved a really good situation because I was being 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:34.880 impatient and ungrateful. I lost sight. You know, that was 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:38.800 a recipe for like, okay, well now what you know, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:43.279 Like now I'm totally yeah, rude here, I've got no team, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.159 I got no go forward songs. I don't know what 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.440 I want to have to say or who's going to 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:52.960 help me say it. So that was a time of 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.400 just shit like kind of reflecting, and. 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:01.440 So what years this happening. This is twenty eighteen, twenty eighteen, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.480 that's probably the same year I saw you at that festival. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:12.680 Probably was, dude, Probably was. And I took a minute 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:17.520 and I was hanging out with Tyler Hubbard. He was 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:19.760 a good friend of mine, and we were working out 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.640 and he started telling me that he was about to 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.920 start a new venture, a publishing venture and maybe a 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.640 record label at the same time. And I was like, oh, 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:38.159 that's interesting, that could be cool. And so honestly, that 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:42.360 just kind of like came about through it just sort 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.640 of just coming to the table naturally, through us hanging 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.320 out in conversations about what he wanted to do next 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.560 in his career, the kind of the team and structure 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.480 he wanted to build. And I ended up fitting into 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.080 that equation. And so I signed a record deal with 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:01.360 him and b K under the name Your Records, and 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.880 a publishing deal as well. And so this was twenty nineteen, 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:11.520 and at this time, Granger, I was like not even sure. 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.360 I mean, I like I told you, I was lost 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:17.880 as an artist, So I didn't know what I was 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.200 going to do next in that regard, But I still 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.840 loved writing songs, and so I focused a little bit 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.080 more on that than I had been in the past. 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.120 I wanted to kind of double down as a songwriter 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.600 and go hard in the pain on that front, and 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.520 so I did that whole right, you know, four times, yeah, 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.440 sometimes five times a week. And I did that for 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.240 about two years and not really even thinking about what's 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.160 next for me as an artist. And that was a 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.880 transitional phase where it was a little bit tough at first, 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:52.320 because you know, you go at one speed and you're 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.200 you know, you're kind of just coasting for a minute, 0:07:55.520 --> 0:08:00.360 and then everything it felt like the rug was pulled 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.760 out a little bit and I had to had to 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.040 down shift and go back to square one and kind 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.720 of find my bearings again. And what was beautiful about 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.400 the partnership there with Tyler and BK was it I'd 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.880 known those guys for enough time that they knew I 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.520 was lost, you know, and they were able to kind 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.200 of like speak in to me and help me get 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.720 back on track a little bit. So it was a 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.600 transitional season. And then meanwhile, my wife gets pregnant, and 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.880 this is you know, going on in the background too. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:34.320 All the same time, and our daughter, Virginia was born 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:39.200 on Halloween of twenty nineteen, so shortly after I started 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:44.959 working with those guys, we had our first child. And 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.200 I was starting at that point to be like, Okay, 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:49.679 you know, I feel like I've got some new direction 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.240 as far as where I want to go next musically, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.880 and I started to put a little tour together for 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:59.520 the January JA. I think we're going to do some 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:04.000 late Jamesnuary dates in twenty twenty. So two weekends into 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:11.360 this club tour thing, COVID hit and then that couldn't 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.720 be on the road anymore. And so it was another 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.199 bit of a rug pulled out from under me. And 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.199 I'm starting to see a theme here actually, as we're 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:25.600 talking that God has intervened multiple times on my path 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:30.920 in the form of pulling the rug out, and not 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.600 as I don't say that as a victim. I say 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:39.400 that with gratitude, honestly, because I've never been happier than 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:39.719 I am. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.000 Now, well, let me say right there that there's an 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.480 interview that you did, and there's a quote that you 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.200 have that says, around the same time you're talking about 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.240 you said, I feel like I had come home and 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.200 God knew it. My perspective needed shifting. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.480 Yeah it did, dude, it really did. I didn't know it, 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.880 but he did. And sometimes he you know, in the 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.679 Bible he talks through a donkey at one point, is 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.280 it Byalem as a donkey? 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:15.840 He does a bush too, and a bush and a witch. Yeah. Yeah, 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:17.000 wow crazy. 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:22.040 So I felt like you know, I have, I have 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:26.199 felt redirected. And then to speed up the story a 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.680 little bit, COVID hit came off the road for a 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:35.160 good long season. Got to spend real quality time at home. Yeah, 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.120 for the first time, you know, really, because Christy and 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.160 I got married and I went on radio tour literally 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.280 a week after we got married in twenty fourteen, so 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:44.520 you know with that site. 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:44.920 Yeah. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.280 Anyhow, then being home and having a new being, a 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.320 new dad, all of that at the same time was 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.600 exactly what my heart needed and exactly where what my 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.400 faith needed because all the tearing that happens, you know, 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.120 even as a I mean, I'm not gonna lie to you, bro, 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.560 I have moments every single day where I fall apart. 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.360 So and yeah, I know you know what I'm talking. Yeah, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.559 I'm I yell at the kids, and I hate myself 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.520 for it, but I'll get so short with them because 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:19.160 I've got other things I need to get done. The 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.200 chaos is keeping me from getting done. But all of 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.080 that's so good for me, for a guy like me, 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:29.160 It's like and God's just like being so gracious to 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:34.560 me along this path of you know, me having to 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.800 this this great awakening that's happened and is happening still 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.040 for me. And I don't know what what the point 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:44.720 is other than on a on a you know, on 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.800 the level of being dad and being Christie's husband, like 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.800 on that level the things that matter most. I'm being 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:56.280 tweaked in all the right ways. I think God's tightening 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:01.200 what needs tightened and tearing off what needs tear tearing 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:05.319 and and and as a result of that, I'm also 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:09.600 feeling more fulfilled creatively. I'm getting to open myself up 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.640 and what I bring to the table now comes comes 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:19.160 from you know, a different side perspective that is on 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:25.839 the other side of not maturity, but sort of. I mean, 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:31.079 I guess, right, So that was the shift, really, man, 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.200 that was a many It took a few steps, right, 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.800 and even the record deal I ended up signing with 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.559 with the with the boys that got canned when they 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.000 called it quits as a duo, they closed up shop 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.920 on the record deal. And that was another like rug 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:49.360 pulled moment that I needed to get me to hear 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.400 for this album that I was put out even to 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.480 have happened, you know, it wouldn't have happened had I, 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.000 you know. And I was actually halfway down the road 0:12:56.000 --> 0:13:00.160 cutting the second album with them for in some the 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.720 same songs that are on this album, we're already underway, 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.480 but we re recorded them obviously. 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.320 And this is independent. This record's independent, totally independent. Yeah, 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:12.960 how did you? How'd you fund it? I mean it 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:14.559 sounds it sounds expensive. 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.600 I'm so proud of It is expensive to record music, 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:24.360 as you know, but it was a partnership with I got. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.120 I got fifteen thousand dollars. Actually I got a twenty 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:32.200 thousand dollars check from a camper company. I use we 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.000 have a camper trailer. 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.400 I saw that on your Instagram. It looks awesome. I 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.400 want to talk to you about that thing because that, Yeah, 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:40.520 for sure, that looks like goody. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.160 It's called Modern Buggy. That's the brand, and they have 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.880 all kinds of different models. And sizes and things, but 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.679 the one we had fits in my garage. It's super 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.559 easy to just hook up and go. But I had 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.800 bought one from from the guy who owns the company. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:01.200 We crossed paths somehow. He was host in like a 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.200 songwriter night in Michigan, and I got asked to do 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.200 it and we hit it off, and he ended up 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.079 telling me, you know, he had these cool buggies, and 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:12.199 I was like, oh, sweet, I might want to get one. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:13.840 I ended up getting one. He gave me a great 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.120 deal on it, and then you know, I made some 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.280 posts about it because I really love it, and we 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:23.240 used a lot, and he just decided, you know, let's 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.960 let's try to collaborate on that front, and you know, 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:30.000 let's help each other out. You advertise the buggy, and 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:31.840 I'll give you some money to do that. So he 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.720 gave me twenty thousand dollars last year. Yeah, in April 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:39.880 of last year, and three two weeks later, we were 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:43.760 in the studio recording the album. With that money. It's 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:49.040 I spent fifteen thousand dollars for the entire project at 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.160 the recording of the project, and I spent the other 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:56.640 five thousand on a videographer to help with some assets 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.400 for socials. So all in it was twenty thousand dollars 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.040 to get it to where it is now. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.720 And that's for people listening. That's still very difficult to 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.240 be within twenty. 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:09.520 That's dirt cheap. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.240 That is dirty crazy. I mean a normal record where 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.520 you say one hundred thousand, like a normal normal record 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.800 with the record label just to record it. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.480 And paying a producer fee and all that other stuff 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.920 that Anthony Olympia, who produced my record, decided he didn't 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.560 need a producer fee. We just did a split the 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.560 master situation, and I'm so grateful for that. So you 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.880 can get creative these days, you know, and get a 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.680 piecemeal a record together the way that you have, you know, 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.920 the way that you can afford. And that's what we did. 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.560 There are people that will charge twenty five hundred dollars 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.680 just to mix a song, and you you have eleven 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:50.520 songs on this record. That's to put it in that 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:51.280 in perspective. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.120 Yeah, exactly, So I've got I mean, this is the 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:59.080 this is the result of very kind, very talented humans 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:05.160 who gave their incredible gifts to this project for a very. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:09.280 Insanely low price. You know. I don't know that I 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:13.840 could replicate it again necessarily because they're worth a lot 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.520 more than that. But yeah, I'm really proud of of 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:18.320 where we came in. 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.480 Yeah, you should be, man, I mean, sonically, the thing 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:27.000 is solid. I've gotten to listen to it several times now, probably, 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.760 like if I was going to decide a favorite, probably 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.800 every day, Joe, I think, I think I'm going there, 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:40.560 or pay It Forward or in Time with You. Probably 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:48.360 I love so eleven songs, did you know? Let me 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.720 ask you this could there's no way you could know 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.760 this answer, but let me just me ask you anyway, 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.960 eleven songs. How many of the eleven do you think 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.400 have some kind of faith element in the song itself, 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:04.240 in the lyrics? I know the answer. I'm just asking 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:05.160 probably half of them. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.719 I don't know. I'd say a majority of them. 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:13.920 Ten ten songs have and I wow, yeah, I didn't 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.280 know that. The only one is in Time with You 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.720 is the only one that does it, and that's you know, 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.600 it's a love song. But every other one, and I'm counting, 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.119 I'm counting if it the word angel, the word prayer, 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.199 the word preacher. You know, I'm adding I'm make so 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:34.600 your record is you're definitely thinking through things and there's 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:40.480 something inside of you that that speaks in your songwriting, 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.399 in your performing, whether you even know it or not. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.000 I think it's just that's the foundation you're on. You 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.399 you come from this foundation. So it's I guess I 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.560 should say it's like impossible for you to write an 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:57.800 album and not your faith not be prevalent in it. 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:04.040 Praise God for that, dude. Honestly, there's you know, we're 0:18:04.080 --> 0:18:07.840 set apart as believers, That's what That's what the word 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.480 teaches us, that we're set apart, right, and then we're 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.560 called out out of the world, We're called out of 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:13.439 darkness and delight. 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:18.400 That's the what the word holy means. Holy means set apart, 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:23.200 which is which is God's overarching attribute is his holiness. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.960 It's often forgotten because people go, well, God, his greatest 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:31.199 attribute is love, No, not necessarily love is a is 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:35.879 an outpouring of his holiness. He's loving because he's holy. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.040 Set apart, He's we are not like him. He is. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.880 He is set apart from the universe, and so we're 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.560 made in his image, but almost like a shadow is 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.800 in the image of me or you, the shadow is 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.680 made in our image, but it is not like us. 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.720 It mimics, it mimics our appearance, or like a like 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:57.919 the George Washington or nutsbetic like the uh, the Abraham 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:03.600 Lincoln Memorial in Washington in DC mimics his appearance of Lincoln, 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.240 but it's not like him. He is holy, and so 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.000 the Bible says we should be holly too. And now 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.239 word is like, uh, it's almost looked down upon, like 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:17.280 we can't achieve it, or like the word saint for instance, 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.720 that that word is holy one. That's what the word 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:21.520 saint means. 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:22.760 I didn't know that. 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:24.320 You know, in country music we think a lot of 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.080 times was like you're like, I'm not a saint like 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:31.080 my wife. Well, we're called to be saints. 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This is not a tour, This is 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:39.560 not me getting back into music. This is one time 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.159 every year we hope to do a concert for my 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.840 friends and family, especially Maverick who's never seen me play 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:47.119 live before. So come out have a meal with me 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:49.399 and my family. On Friday night. I'm gonna give a 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:51.800 little devotional from the Bible, maybe play an acoustic song 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.520