It’s not a Christian music album though, right?
It’s not a Christian album at all! I don’t mean that to be like it’s a heathen album, it’s just not Christian rock. I think that biblical imagery is really powerful, at least in America, it’s universally understood too. Like when you bring up something like the rapture to talk about a woman who’s freezing to death in her car, I think that’s appropriate.
Is that what your song “Rapture” is about?
Yeah. And people bring up “And Death Shall Have No Dominion”, which is actually my response to the Dylan Thomas poem, I wrote while my grandfather was dying. It was my mediation on that Dylan Thomas poem while that was happening.
Tell me about your second record. You’re the primary song writer for the band, and wrote all the songs on the first album I know, but what about your soon to be finished second album?
Second record I’ve written the most songs, but Hannah has written one – which is actually one of my favourites. And she co-wrote, I think we co-wrote maybe two of them. Then Steve (Bowman, drums) has started writing too. I don’t think he finished the song in time to make the record, but I think if we do a B-sides or European release that there is a chance that it will make it. It’s being produced by this wonderful producer, whose one of our favourites, a guy named Lex Price. He has worked with all sorts of people like, Mindy Smith, Glen Phillips, Toad The Wet Sprocket and Melissa Etheridge. He’s a brilliant producer and has brought together a group of great musicians, all these great Nashville musicians that he got on board to do the record.
And you have relocated from the Bay Area of California to Nashville in order to make your new album correct? So how do like Nashville? Do you find it more creatively stimulating?
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