Danny: Yeah, I don't remember why I had dad's journal. If he, don't know if he, he didn't ask me to take a look at it, but I don't know why I must've been digging around, rooting around through his stuff or something, but I was moved by the...

Michael: And Hampton was like, I want to let this go as long as we possibly can. He's like, I want to anticipate that moment where somebody's like, like you would if you were listening to vinyl and you felt like the needle had gotten stuck,...

Michael: It's okay if people mislabel you. It's okay if people don't get what you're doing. You've got a lot of room to grow. And there's a God that created a great big universe.On this episode, the guys in Smalltown Poets break...

Danny: On one of our more recent records, we've got a song called Say Hello, where we have all these Easter eggs in our lyrics where we pay homage to Keith Green and White Heart and Petra and all the early rockers like DeGarmo & Key.

Michael: It was not something that the record company was looking for at the time. I just to be, I think to be quite candid about it, I think the idea was, hey, we want to get a song or a couple of songs that we think we could get on more a...

Michael: One image in particular, I just couldn't get away from it was the kid with the magnifying glass up to his mouth....This week, Danny, Kevin and Michael talk about Calcutta, India and the impact a boys home had on the ma...

Danny: I think the story that goes with this one is that we were,...was this the night that Kevin, you and I were walking through the park in San Francisco that's right by the Golden Gate Bridge and we were,... Kevin: W...

Michael: I don't want to throw anybody under the bus, but just something that you said reminded me of something that was kind of happening in the background while we were writing this record.This week, Danny talks about the inf...

Danny: And I see the jars of clay guys standing by the escalator. go over and say, Hey, we just came up with this new name. not going to call ourselves Villanelle anymore. And one of the guys, think it was Steve Mason says, that sounds like...

Michael: At the height of the cake fight, so in the shots where you see crumbs and wads of cake going in front of us as a band, there were two 12-year old boys, one on either side of the stage, who had been given full reign and full permiss...

Kevin: You know, we just kind of went our separate ways. It was like a scene out of a movie....The making of a band from their early days as Villanelle to finding Kevin at the Gospel Music Association's GMA Week. Michael talks ...

MICHAEL: So that combined with just an honest wrestling of a 19, 20 year old, you know, am I all in on this? Is this something that I'm okay with going public with, you know?The Christian alt. rock band from Tifton, GA speaks a...

In August of 2023 I released a podcast series with Jennifer Knapp, going song-by-song through her 1997 major label debut album, "Kansas" with Gotee Records. After the release of the series, Jennifer announced she was going back into the studio ...

In this special episode, we interviewed Joel Smallbone, one half of the CCM pop duo For King & Country to discuss everything from 80's christian rock bands to 90's pop music. All of which provided the inspiration for the sound...

 I keep saying yes because people keep asking me to play. And that's kind of all you ever get to do. Like don't stop writing and doing what you're doing. And if people say yes, then go play. It's that simple.On this episod...

It's a very vulnerable position to say, you know what, today I really actually need you to say out loud that you love me. You know, whatever, you know, you don't have to have done anything wrong or screwed anything up. Just sometimes we rea...

What does this revelation mean? That, those are like, in terms of like a theological study, I think that's the question you theologically ask is why is Christ significant and what is that a revelation of?On this episode of the ...

Oh, it's a funny thing, you know, for a while there, you know when you walk into, well, for whatever it's worth, I'm about ready to answer that. This is what it's worth....On this episode of the CCM Deep Dive Podcast, Jennifer ...

It's been a really wonderful gift back. And in fact, it's been a song for me that's been redemptive to kind of reclaiming my Christian catalog when I go out and play live....This week we discuss Gotee Records, its label head To...

I didn't intend on writing a song about that day because I just didn't feel it was the right thing to do or not and that song just came out of nowhere, it was a Godsend....  - Alan JacksonFor this episode, we pause  o...

But I never really kind of gave up the idea that to be influenced by something or to be able to say I am, I am open to and I've loved the gifts and the talents of somebody else is not, you know, is not an exchange of something that, I ever ...

I still struggle just as much to say it with a new language, you know, it'll all work out, you know, if you trust in Jesus, and it just makes me kind of wanna roll my eyes...This week, Jennifer discusses, "In The Name" a...

I was literally sitting in front of my mirror with my guitar in my hand, trying to figure out how I was going to get through and understand any of this kind of, you know, putting on this new life of Christ kind of thing. Like it was just su...

How do I get rid of the things that the defenses and the walls and the right things that I really don't want to let go of? Why are you asking me to be vulnerable?.... This week, Jennifer talks about college, her quickly growing...

From her early days of touring around SE Kansas to dreams of Australia, we kick of the new season with Jennifer Knapp's major label debut album, Kansas while also discussing the first two songs on the album, the short, acapella song, "Fa...