And to the credit of the guys I was working with, they made it where I wanted to keep doing it and not just give up on it and go, ‘Nah, I’ll just do it myself.’ It was a very different and yet fun process.” “I’d never-for Christian music-gone to Nashville and written with people and I was never that artist who was like, ‘Hey find me the best song and I’ll record it.’ I always wanted to be the songwriter, so I didn’t think I would like that process of going and working with these professional songwriters, but I fell in love with that process, just getting in a room with guys and coming up with a new fresh thing. So, I started writing for that and started falling in love with that process.”Īfter years of writing primarily alone or with his bandmates in Third Day, Powell admits he took a different approach in collaborating on songs for his new album.
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I had some ideas for songs I wanted to maybe do an EP or a full record. “Making Christian music is where I’m comfortable. “Even though I loved making country music, I knew eventually I would end up here, back where my roots are,” Powell tells SLN. 15 th that finds the singer/songwriter again gracing Christian radio with the single “River of Life.” Now he’s returned to his roots with New Creation, a solo project releasing Oct.
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The four-time Grammy Award winner spent nearly three decades fronting legendary Christian rock band Third Day before embarking on a solo country career in 2018. We’ve all heard the old adage “You can’t go home again,” but apparently it doesn’t apply to Mac Powell.