'First Mondays With Mark' featuring Gordon Mote and Geron Davis and special surprise guests.

[Music] well hello everybody let's all sit up straight jiren davis landy ewing hello sister becky davis we're girl we all ready to sing sing sing once like a bird in prison i dwell no freedom from my sorrow i think but jesus came and listened to me glory to god he set me free he set me free yes he set me free he broke upon a prison for me when i'm glory bound my jesus to see glory to god he set me free now i am climbing higher each day darkness of night has drifted away my feet are planted on higher ground glory to god i'm holding he set me free yes he set me free he broke the bonds of [Music] jesus deceit glory to god glory to god glory to god he sets me free [Applause] set [Music] hey everybody we are in jaren davis's house and his sweet wife becky and their grandchild was just here how much do y'all love him much much much much how has he changed your world look at that picture right there oh the picture went dead let me try this one okay let's see if this camera will work better well there he is keeps going dead yeah here it goes dark well y'all we're so you know what i'll be honest with you tonight i'm not gonna worry about the words because i can't think about everything and we got too many talented people so and one of our surprises is on her way and she'll be here a little bit but one another of our surprises tonight is mr landy ewing who is one of the most incredible singers bass players uh his daddy merle oh my goodness if you've never heard of merle ewing google him later yeah and watch him on youtube what's that song he did his mom his mom wrote a song that his dad sang on one of the gaither videos he saw me yes oh what an incredible sure he's got this big voice rehearsing and landy is a chip off the old block now vani lopez yeah you've had her on your shoulder right and that's a landy's sister ryan ewing's daughter so talent runs runs rampant in that family and the mama is the songwriter listen we got 1152 of y'all joining us tonight so far now let me tell you if you're watching on youtube please subscribe ring the bell so you'll be notified every time i go live and also if you're watching on facebook share share share sharing is caring you know that don't you all right let's sing uh something all right i'm gonna i'm sharing this on here oh you're on my facebook so everybody will uh be watching yeah there we go very nice yeah sharing is here now thank you for letting us invade your world tonight i love it what do we want to sing well uh you want to do too much the game to lose come over here brother get over ewing pull this chair up here and let's get around this microphone let's gather around this mic i know it's kind of impromptu but i want you up here you're singing the low part miles behind me too many trials too many tears help me to remember there's too much many sunsets lie behind the mountain too many rivers my feet have walked through too many treasures our way over yonder there's too much [Music] [Laughter] [Music] struggling the right road to choose somewhere up ahead [Music] is [Music] my feet there's too much there's too much too many treasures two many treasures there's too much that's not a bad little quartet that's a nice what did they say hello brenda higdon and joyce mcclanahan and sandra mcginnis what a name you got there one of my favorites deanna kilpatrick says thank you all for tuning in 1725 of you are tuning in tonight all over the world that's what i love about this when i walked in i had two bags i had one over here and one of my my satchel and then my other bag acid in these two bags we reached the world you know it's a small little 1700 member world but it's a world and i'm glad you're in it thank y'all for tuning in tonight does it sound okay look at there he's checking it out uh hello seth everything sounds all right i hope so i haven't got everything figured out but i think this little microphone isn't it cool it's so retro looking mm-hmm good enough all right sing uh it looks like the old mic they used to mount on the pulpit yes at the church and we they didn't everybody didn't have a mic we all gathered around the pulpit and they had that squeaky gooseneck yes and the sound system was under there and it was one knob it was and it said uh radio shack on it or tia yeah and and i can't tell you how many pastors probably to this day wish they had one little knob right by their sleeve so they could they can turn it down [Music] how about uh farther along or yeah everybody's saying everybody knows that farther along [Music] how does it go little andy sing the the verses on this all right come on we'll off help him on the chorus all right now all of you out there know how to sing and you know your parts get to the chorus one big giant sing your part and landing [Music] y'all [Music] made [Music] all the day long [Music] living um [Music] father [Music] [Music] know [Applause] [Music] and cry cheer up [Music] me [Music] is [Music] in that bright mansion is [Music] father [Music] [Music] father [Music] cheer my [Music] [Music] me us [Music] now there's a special day coming up soon we need to pick it up a little bit boys mark that's that's uh here in the month of june yeah there's a special holiday coming up and uh we want to dedicate that song um father's day is coming up soon so that beautiful song father's father alone all you fathers out there that was just for you father alone amen that was his dad joke for the day oh y'all should have seen them when that grand baby got in here oh they lit up like a christmas tree all right what do we want what do y'all want to sing what do y'all want to sing this is just you're much yaw as it is us uh tiffany taylor says she's loving this we love that tiffany what about now can god be the glory someone said who said that oh no do god be the glory are they talking about andres i don't know which one you talking about doris talking about that one or andre oh his ghosts like the other one you like i like it no the other one's easier you like the other one better his mother loved his better yeah you know what that to that is a hard song to sing that lingerie one it gets up yeah the round how can i say yeah you better start [Music] so and what is it [Music] and he gave us so much he loved this maybe the other one's easier yeah okay the world that he gave us his son who yielded his life an atonement for sin and opened the life gate that all may go in praise the lord praise the lord let the earth hear his voice praise the lord praise the lord let the people rejoice o come to the father through jesus the son and give him the glory great things he hath done that is a baptist one it is because come to the father through jesus the son y'all wouldn't decide no we all we we believe that no no no yeah yeah that's that's scripture i know it but i didn't think y'all knew it can we do that hey y'all what you want to sing now that was a good one doris oh doris that was a good one hey how about he look down my phone okay what about uh when we all get to heaven oh yeah everybody loves us [Music] here's the words sing his mercy and his grace in the mansion's bride and blessed he'll prepare [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now that's the way my baptist friend saying we didn't say that here we go [Music] on a [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] [Laughter] [Music] savannah tennessee population 9 000. but we are sitting here waiting on our special guest angela prim hey um angie where are you let's call her an embarrassment he looked beyond my fault oh yeah this is a song becky and landy and i um sang together a few years ago at a church event and uh so we got around the piano and before i forget gordon moat the entire gordon mode interview will be at the very end of all the singing so don't go anywhere if you're waiting on gordon and if you're watching the replay and you just came to see gordon just speed ahead but we're live right now so you can't do it but don't speed ahead we're going to sing some fun stuff and angie prim's going to be worth the wait so you'll love it uh so anyway this is a classic daddy rambo song [Music] amazing grace shall always be my song of praise for it was grace that brought my liberty [Music] i do not know just why he came to love me so he looked beyond my fault and so i shall foreign [Music] to view the cross where jesus died for [Music] the me that caught [Music] and i shall go [Music] cross where jesus died for me [Music] [Applause] so [Music] my voice [Music] [Applause] god [Music] i was where you called me at this afternoon we called her she didn't know anything about this till about an hour ago i was like oh my gosh my hair got wet and with black hair it takes a little more effort to curl it [Applause] how are you doing oh i love you i love you so much [Music] everybody should get it so we can get back together i know okay shouldn't angie sing something since she was late oh yeah you were like you got the rest of the show late i i want you to know all of their email address not email addresses their websites jarondavismusic.com is in the show notes angela prim music or ministries angel of her ministries is the name of my ministry yeah but it's angelaprom.com angelaprim.com and you got a book right you can go there and get her new book called so you say you want to sing but i want you to know if you want to sing get this go to angela prim it's a great dot com and and get her book especially if you want to sing it yeah find out memoirs of a background vocalist that sounds fascinating do you tell any dirt i do she tells dirt and you're in it oh and she's got this cd called anthems and hymns for him y'all look at there get that at angeloperim.com angie sings something for us what have you got oh forward by jaren davis he can write and it was excellent oh i love she covers in really good really yeah she deals with the dirt deals with how to be a background singer yeah yeah it's not all about vocal family fest good oh it was y'all need to come to family fest next year yeah yeah it was this was the 30th this is it yeah cause we missed it last year yeah the city gave bill a proclamation the mayor and everybody a proclamation for 30 years in gatlinburg that's pretty amazing when you've had a positive impact on a community like that that sees that many visitors for 30 years that's that's pretty powerful he doesn't look like he's going anywhere either no 85 and still plowing that's the reason why well i used to think i'll take a year off you know because i'm like grill cream a little dabble do you and so i thought i don't need to be there every year but now he's 85 how many more can there be yeah oh my god well you know what's funny he's 85 and just bought a brand new bus that's how much he's slowing down he just bought a brand new bus i love that yeah i love it i think i thought it was interesting how uh bill talked about me during the fest and how because i just get you know crazy some of your people were just enjoying enjoying and they were like oh my god you know because bill has me to do that right but he introduced me as a disciplined singer but when i'm live i'm different well in my book i talk about how discipline you have to be because jaron is one of the hardest producers to ever work for because he hears everything every note every track when he lays down a track there is a certain vocal he wants to go with that track and people say that they want to sing but it's just not about opening your mouth to see you have to be disciplined to hear what they're producing all right now you sing and show them what you know how yeah singing oh well okay what do you want am i in my tape or can i okay so okay you have to hold the god's unchanging hand oh wait you want to do that okay now that's not disciplined oh we taking the harness off tonight [Music] [Music] god's unchanging hands [Applause] [Music] is [Music] you play [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] rather than just in the shower by yourself yes you know like right now wherever you are you're some of you are alone because you've told me you are and that you enjoy these sing-alongs i hope you're singing along at home now that's the whole point right and we're singing together and just think up in heaven they're hearing all that yes from all points of the world all that praise is going up to the father even though you're alone you're part of this choir [Music] no god says lo he loves to get us so high we can't sing it again hey at these prices put it where she wants it yeah i didn't say it so much [Music] there's been times i didn't know right from wrong [Music] but in my lonely hours the blessed lonely hour jesus let me know jesus let me know i am oh come on [Music] [Music] lonely hour [Music] jesus [Music] hallelujah i've learned to trust in jesus [Applause] [Music] in yeah [Music] i've learned to depend now i thank god for the mountains yes thank him for the valley thank him for the storms he's brought me through how would i know that god could solve him how would i know what faith in his through word all through it all i've learned to trust in [Music] to jesus in god upon his words [Music] his [Music] well you've written one too one or two i asked him today i said are you excited about anything you've written you said a couple of things and i'm thinking a couple of things i haven't had one thing in so long how many how many songs do you think you write a year would you guess if you were to guess i would say probably i don't know maybe 30 30. wow and you have to have an idea for every one of those that's the hard part isn't it yeah i don't know i mean some you know some weeks i'll write three songs or four songs some weeks i may write one song i try to write something every single week now reba right rambo she like her mother wrote something every single day what still does she write something every single day and and i am you know i'm not that i want you to sing a course of your head we are standing on holy do you all know he wrote we are standing on the holy ground for those of you who are watching and did not know that this man wrote we are standing on holy ground and he's still alive i'm one of the very few people in a hymnal me and bill gates that are still alive somebody in in the hymnals they always put on that biography page they put the year you were born in the year you died and so under my name they just had 1960 which is when i was born and the hyphen and somebody thought it meant i wrote holy ground in 1960 do i look old enough to have written a song you came out 60 years ago oh my gosh that would mean i was 80. um okay just a little bit of it why don't you sing a person when i walked through the doors i sensed his presence and i knew this was a place [Music] [Applause] [Music] in his presence [Music] and i know that there are angels all around let us praise [Music] jesus [Music] we are standing in his presence [Applause] [Music] oh and i know that there are let us [Music] his presence on [Music] in your living room you may be in a bedroom you may be in a hotel room just watching this online maybe you're somewhere watching it on your phone the thing i love about god and the way he works is his word says he inhabits the praises of his people and it doesn't take a crowd of people it doesn't take a special building whenever you start to praise him he shows up and some of you have some needs in your life and maybe you've been feeling hopeless about some things are helpless right now wherever you are yeah i want you to join us the bible says where two or three are gathered and you and us make more than two or three and he is here and he is available to meet you at the point of your need and where the spirit of the lord is the bible says there's liberty and so whatever you need in your life tonight i want you to understand that the lord is able and willing he's just waiting on an invitation for you from you to step into your situation and he wants to be that friend to you that sticks closer than a brother and so right now wherever you are let us now sing that one more time let us praise oh yeah i feel him right here [Music] [Music] and i'm so glad i'm a part of the family of god [Music] [Applause] [Music] as [Music] well let me build bill gator now well you will notice we say brother hey bring it up a little higher yeah you will notice we say brothers picnic and sister around here well it's because we're a family and these folks that i just hit you in the face are so dear and when one has a heartache we all shed a tear and we rejoice in each victory and this family's so dear and i'm so glad i'm a part [Music] his [Music] foreign [Music] i know these verses from the door of an orphanage to the house of a king no longer an outcast a new song i sing from rats to riches from the weak to the strong well i'm not worthy to be here oh but praise god i belong and i'm so glad i'm a part of the family of god i've been washed in the fountain [Music] jesus as we traveled [Music] the family of god and uh we're kindred spirits where's allison and uh in case you're wondering where they are yeah they're in lake charles with their daughters everybody's got a kid getting in the way and um your sister oh oh my lord vonda vonnie bonnie where'd i get bonnie oh bonnie we love you if you're watching and colleen and philip they're people ask me where they are well they're in houston and we're in nashville at the davis family and do we want to sing something else we've been going for about 50 minutes and then we got to get we got to get to our dear brother yes but what can we sing to wrap it up wrap up the music before we bring the message what about you yeah what you guys are saying one more for us i've just what do y'all want to hear angie sing let's read the comments you want to sing in good hands it's a privilege to be a part that's amazing thank you k-10 oh yeah oh thank you i appreciate that that's a good one you got an idea yeah i don't know what's going on here okay what's happening jared you're gonna sing angie's gonna say this is one of my favorite andre songs interestingly enough it's the first song he wrote one of the first songs he wrote and i had the privilege of course you know in high school i grew up on andre kraft and the disciples such a huge musical influence in my playing and in my writing and and what i love but then to be able to get to meet him and get to be friends but i'll never forget we were at the cove in asheville north carolina part of the billy graham center and we were doing the gaither video honoring billy graham and a lot of the artists to all the artists who had sung owned the billy graham crusade so it was an eclectic group of people um avalon was there and uh sandy and evie was there yeah and um amy grant and vince were there you know a lot of the just a wide variety of people randy travis was there and um andre of course and cece winans and andre but it was a small group of about 40 people you'll remember one of the smaller videos we did and andre gets up to sing as one of his songs and you know he starts to play and and cece walks down and he does the song i've got confidence god's going to see me and cece sang it and when he got done everybody started clapping and going you know more more and more and andre just you know no no no and so i was sitting there and i thought you know bill can he has to have something to edit out so so i thought he can edit this out so i jumped up and ran to the piano and i was sitting on the front row right behind it and i i jumped up and ran the piano and i said andre i knew every song you did every arrangement you did every lick you did i couldn't i could have i could have been on your your i could have been in your group i was nine but i could have been in your group and and uh and i i started singing uh soon and very and everybody started singing well i just did a chorus of it and about that time as i'm getting to the end of it michael w smith was there and he ran up and got on the piano benchmade he said i i'm your age too jaren and i grew up on andre and i love the songs and i love this one i don't know why jesus loved me and everybody started singing and i went back to another one and uh then and and and we did um several different songs and build it and edit it out we did several several different songs it was so so great it just kind of clicked one of the funny parts was when uh uh smitty we called michael w smith smitty a lot of us and and he said uh a lot of the little blue haired ladies in my little baptist church got nervous when i sang this one i've got it i've got it i've got it i've got it there's something about the power of the holy ghost i can't explain it but i've got it and everybody got it what happened bill asked me one time he said do you do you think everybody angie will be all right i said yeah just keep a fire extinguisher but i got to sit down with andre we said one of the songs we did in that little medley was it reaches to the highest mountain the blood will never lose its power and i remember gloria sitting across the room and pointing at andre and said that's your best one that's my favorite and i asked andre later i said what's the story about the blood will never lose its power and he told me he was sitting he went to a the home of somebody that was prominent in uh the christian world out in california um in the their culture of music that his dad was a pastor and and grew up in some guys that he had kind of looked up to he was 16 and he said i got there and they were drinking and and you know it was just a different drinking some of them had mixed drinks and it was so different from the world he was used to and he said he walked into uh and i'm not saying this judgmental i'm just i'm just sharing with you the story that andre shared with me he said it was so different for me because i had been raised in a world where we didn't do that and the people that we ran with didn't do that and he said i just went in the house and sat down at the piano and thought lord i don't understand this it seems like what i thought they were on stage and what i see here they've changed and he said the lord spoke to him as a teenager and said it doesn't matter what people do you don't serve people you serve me and i have never changed my blood has never changed and it will never lose its power and a young teenage andre sat down and started writing the blood that jesus said from and and that song when you hear it so many people are moved but mark i believe that when you write a song with passion that's born out of a moment people who hear it feel that passion and it's not just an assignment song where you go to a writing room and crank out a song is that the one is that the one he threw away and his sister dug it out of the trash i don't know that part of the story i heard it may be i think this is the one all right come on angie someone just wrote enough talk and time to sing mother quit sending messages [Music] way back that gives me strength [Music] is [Music] valley that gives me strength [Applause] [Music] is and it drives my tears [Music] today [Music] is [Music] [Music] that gives me strength [Music] if [Music] i is to thank y'all thank you landy thank you becky thank you angie for slapping on that wig thank you cheers and thank you gordon mo y'all here's old gordon and we're going to interview him and you're going to love this well hello gordon moat how are you this bright morning mark you look great man how long does it take you to get ready for these interviews i actually washed my hair for you i didn't want you to see my cpap hair you know when i get up in the morning after the cpap it looks like phyllis diller yeah i don't know if you remember her well i mean hey but that's your that's your look man and this is important for you tell us how you made it through the plague what were there some scary times was there still work for you tell us all about it well um you know i think everybody was a bit uh concerned because we didn't really know what the next day held and you know every day the news changed and every day somebody had something new that they were discovering and you you know you kind of had to dig to find what the real truth was and a lot of times you you couldn't really find it because everybody had a different version and so it was a little bit uh scary i'm sure for everybody no matter what business you were a part of uh i mean if you were in the medical business you you made bank probably but if uh you were in the music business maybe not so much right especially those of us who um you know travel and and do that sort of thing of course a lot of my days are spent in the studio right but if you think about it a lot of the people that we work with both in the christian world and the secular world uh they really can't sell merchandise um to their to to to the very best they can do unless they have a tour um they can sell certainly online streams were way up and a lot of people were doing facebook things and youtube things and and i did my share those too so to answer your question go all the way around there were some crazy but um you know our thing was pretty good because i was in the middle of producing two or three things and i was to a point where i could do a lot of the work by myself and so for the first couple three months when everybody was kind of scared to get out um you know i was working with an engineer and sometimes i would work with some guys that would come in that weren't too afraid and uh it i was able to work uh not as much as i normally do but i was able to keep things going to a relatively good level during the plague i'll tell you a funny story you know this past weekend we were both at family fest uh the big gaither event that we uh missed last year because of the virus but um such a great event that bill puts on and uh bill and gloria do such a great job gloria wasn't with us this past weekend but it was a great event and i guess i heard they had five or six thousand which right i was i was really glad uh that they had that many but a funny story about uh on sunday morning the vocal band did a song called here i stand and it's an arrangement that i did with russell malden stuart talent and gloria wrote the lyric and um we i had to cut that uh that's on a that's on their latest album called that's gospel brother and i had to cut that with just adam and reggie and then i sang everybody else's vocals and sent it to them so they could record them in their home studios and of course bill has a studio todd's got a place he goes to in dallas wes has a little thing in his house so uh as amazing as that turned out we were you know we were not all together recording that song and several songs on the album were done like that right and there's a program called audio movers that you can use so that you know people can kind of be with you and hear what you're doing in the studio from their studio so take that same time yes you mean live yes live and there's no delay there's no there's probably a second delay so they can't sing right but like in if for instance if bill wanted you know bill doesn't ever like to be out of the loop he loves just the hang he loves the hat sure you can do face time but when you do audio movers he hears it on the speakers just like he would hear it if he were in the studio and then he can see us so it's great technology and you know as far as the virus is concerned it brought great technology to the forefront it should that that that we've all a lot of us have used for a while but it made some of that technology kind of uh commonplace almost well speaking of technology i want to ask you and the main reason i've been hounding you to uh and for a while there i thought i must have offended him he won't even return my texts that is so wrong that is something i thought what did i ever do because you know the first thing i think is i did something you know because all my life i was in trouble about something but um but seriously your your podcast i love it i did i've not heard much about it it doesn't seem like your advertis at least i hope you're advertising it i want everybody who watches me to go to the show notes and visit the page for insight with gordon moat it's a brand new podcast says audio which i love now let me ask you this are you using new technology to interview these people when they aren't in the room too yes we are we're using uh a lot of times we're using zoom but here's the cool thing a lot of guys that we've interviewed and and girls um a lot of people that we've interviewed have the technology to record on their side through pro tools or through logic or something like that right so we do the conversation on zoom but then they send us their side and so it sounds just like they're in the room with us because it's a high resolution file well there is a website available that does the same thing somehow but yes i have a friend who has that type of podcast and it sounds like they're in the studio so even people who don't have the technology can still do it with through this website and i'll get you that information yeah find out what that website is but uh this week um becca stevens dropped yesterday becca runs uh the magdalen house and thistle farms here in nashville it's a home uh well it yes it's a home but it's also well it's just an incredible organization it helps women who have been uh trafficked or women who have been in prostitution women who have been abused and alcohol abused in any way it helps them find a place to heal and then not only that not only do they go through a program where they are able to go through rehab and all those things but it helps them find work it helps them find a reason to be it helps them find a new um you know it just helps them to find a new life and and and rehabilitate in a way that's not just hey we're going to get you off drugs and alcohol and then we're going to send you back out right it's an amazing organization uh kimberly and i have um uh contributed uh both in money and and our time and a lot in lots of ways we are huge uh fans of this organization we love what they do we've met a lot of the women and so i wanted to have becca on to talk about it uh mark this this podcast really is all about the power of collaboration that's what i've noticed and you've had scott hamilton you've had bill schnee you've had ashley gourley tyrone crawford uh i mean this is you will learn of new people andy andrews of course my people know him of course and then you interviewed the first one was what vince gill yeah vince did it and paul brandt i mean you had some heavy hitters and i love that i love that you're not rehashing everybody we already know right i mean we've uh we've got some really good ones in the can too um you know people from all walks of life people you know that you see uh in you know on your screen movie actors we've got people a lot of people in the music business but we've got people from all walks of life where we're right we're uh we're interviewing an astronaut coming up um it's just craziness but what the cool thing about it is really it's all about the power of collaboration we are so much better when we are swapping ideas with other people when we are in the room with other people or in contact with other people and ideas come to life that maybe you by yourself would have never had right my conversation with bill schnee was so interesting um a lot of people don't know that name but you know records he's worked on he told me the story of recording i will always love you with whitney houston at a hotel because they couldn't get a studio and she had a day off from shooting the bodyguard and so they just had to find a ballroom at a hotel and bring in a bunch of equipment but the story just it's worth just hearing his story about that listening to the podcast got a brand new book out called chairman at the board and he's worked with everybody in in in the music business all these pop backs that you loved groups that i loved you know toto i mean records that i grew up thinking okay if i were on an island by myself and i had to have five records bill has worked on so many of those records i loved as a kid vince was a great interview talking about his insecurities talking about things he really these people for whatever reason really seem to open up on this podcast and talk about things that in all fairness i've never heard them talk about well you know what you're good at getting that out of people you know you're a good interviewer and also i believe even though you're blind you see things some of us don't see and in fact i walked by you backstage and i didn't say a word but i was staring hard at you and you noticed i don't know if you smelled me or what but i didn't say a word because there's no way i can say a word and you not know it's me but i wasn't even i just walked by you and just stared at you real hard and you looked at me your face tore and said well how are you and i thought oh dear god this man is a liar he really can see well man i i love to mess with people like that because well you did a good job of it it's so fun because uh it does kind of freak people out but this podcast mark is uh i really appreciate you letting me come on talk about it we've got some like i say we've got some really cool people coming up blake shelton's coming up in a few weeks wow we're talking about his new record and talking about all kinds of stuff um bill gaither is going to be the next one to drop uh and it was really fun to talk about talk to bill because if anybody knows something about collaboration it's bill sure and uh you know bill a lot of people that listen to this podcast mark are people in the secular world people who are businessmen like they may be not necessarily uh fans of music maybe some of them don't even like music or they don't really listen to it like we do and then there are people who are musicians like us who are just like wow you had so and so on uh ashley gourley he's written more number one songs you know than anybody in country music history you know so how does he do that you know how does he collaborate with all these people make that work so we have people from all walks of life and that's why we're trying to interview people from all walks of life that can speak on the power of collaboration and we've got a lot of things happening with our company that will be we'll be talking about uh things that are in the works right now if you want to see our page you can go to soundcollaborationgroup.com and um just kind of read about the guys collaborationgroup.com yes so and who is this group well it's my good friends ben fowler who is a grammy-winning engineer here in nashville i've done a lot of records with ben over the years and then andy oldham who is a dear friend he's from indianapolis he has ran several fortune 500 companies he is just a really great guy but he's also a brainiac so he's the brains behind this whole thing uh and and cool he is just an amazing wealth of information and he kind of saw what ben and i were doing in the studio and he said you know you need to take this to the masses you need to show people the power of collaboration and andy andrews spoke really well to that when we had him on um because andy you know there are not many more people that are as sharp as andy andrews well that's true he is just an amazing man and he's able to put things into words that even i can understand yes and you know and that's an amazing uh when someone can communicate like that that's such an amazing talent you have that talent and not many people have the talent like people like you and andy and i could mention several others but that's a real talent so i really wanted to have him on because he's got a new book and i always love to talk to these people about their new book scott's new book is amazing too scott hamilton's and his his organization is scottcares.org you know they they specialize in uh cancer treatment that doesn't necessarily hurt the patient you know so many people when they get cancer they have to make a decision okay do i want to have some a quality of life or do i want to take this chemo that's going to just make me so sick that i won't be able to enjoy my family and this may or may not work but they are coming up with treatments and they've got some pretty heavy hitters donating to their company but they're trying to make people more aware of scottcares.org and his of course his platform is amazing because he had he was so visible on television for so long oh yes sitting for skating and then of course winning the olympics in 84 winning the gold um but he's been jordan you know you know if you keep talking they won't have to listen to any of these podcasts well that's true but i i love it i love the fact that these people are not you know when we talk to vince he he's not just a musician these people have other passions yes that and you did get him to open up i thought it was oh i mean it felt like it felt like your podcast feels like we're listening in on a private conversation which i love yeah that's the key and i love that these people are able to use their platform to talk about other things that they're really passionate about and so check it out go on apple podcast or spotify or anywhere you get podcasts yes anywhere just put it inside with gordon moat or you can go to the show notes and click the link and go directly to all of them you can binge listen to all of them right now lord thank you so much for spending a few minutes with me and my people mark i you know okay i watch a bunch of these things that you do and so i'm a fan so i understand the format and i love i love what you do and uh i love you as a person i think uh i one of my regrets is that i didn't get to produce the gaither vocal band while you were in it because i think you got the best fun you're the best baritone singer uh you have such a and man anybody family fest got to hear you kill mary did you know this weekend i told you how good it was but you sure man every time you speak or anytime you sing it's so powerful you have such a great great gift and to have you as a friend i i cherish that and i'm grateful for you having me on and let's i'm just glad you weren't mad at me i could never be that as you man you know i tell you what bill's got me working i'll tell you what we've we're i'm working on two albums for the vocal band right now plus the other things i'm producing plus the things i'm playing on so it's uh it's kind of crazy and i'm glad you're busy when i learned it was because you were so busy i thought thank god i'm i don't know why i all of a sudden have gotten busy again you know but it reminds me of how it was 10 15 years ago and then tomorrow i leave to do my first gigs as a side man i've never hadn't done a gig as a side man in 20 years but now what does that mean to who what does that even mean a side note well a side man is when you're not the artist you're just playing foreign artists oh alabama right yeah i'm gonna be doing the tour the 50th anniversary tour with the group alabama and uh so we're going to do a couple shows this weekend and with chip davis our mutual friend yeah and this that's going to be fun i'll tell you i'll take 30 seconds to tell you another tell us uh when i was a kid uh growing up in gadsden alabama you know that's about 45 minutes from fort payne where uh randy and teddy and jeff all lived right and still live um i was nine years old and i'll never forget here in my homes in alabama on the radio drinking was forbidden in my christian country home you know my home's in alabama i mean i can't i'll never forget where i was when i heard that song the first time and then they started having hits and mark when that happened i mean i was from a small town i was i was playing i started playing when i was three years old i was playing in little churches and singing all i could listening and i knew that i had a gift for music i knew i had perfect pitch i knew i i listened to things and listened deeply like nobody else that i knew but i didn't know what i was going to ever do with it because i was from a small town nobody knew who i was and i didn't know how to you know i didn't know i didn't know anything but when i heard them on the radio that gave me license to dream and i thought you know these guys from a small town can have radio success and just do what they do there's hope for me and so i started dreaming bigger than i ever dreamed before and as a result i ended up in nashville and the rest is history but i know and let me just say how how many times have you won the country music awards for what a greatest piano player god ever gave fingers to well uh this year it was my third time to win the acm award uh my son makes my son made a joke of it this year when i want it he said it says you've been nominated 19 times and i said well i guess that's true and he came back and he said is this your third time to win and i said yes it is and i thought he was going to compliment me and he came back and he said dad that's a horrible so your percentage keep you humble man how old is he now he is 21 he is finishing at samford in december sanford university in birmingham he's graduating uh with a degree in christian ministry and he's also yeah he's it's crazy he's a double major he's also majoring in education so he wants to be a coach and a teacher and work with young people this week he's here in nashville doing an all kid sports camp and the other children yeah samantha just celebrated her year anniversary a wedding anniversary to jack cottrell if that cultural name sounds familiar a lot of your people know travis cultural and it's travis's son jack and so have fun we've kind of come full circle because kimberly and i knew travis and angela when we were in college we went to belmont all together and uh you know two rivers baptist together isn't he a wonderful person not only is he a wonderful person yes he is but he is one of the most amazing songwriters singers and worship leaders you will ever uh be in a service with uh yeah you're right the power of his communication is off the charts too and his his artistry is uh man it's amazing i i am in awe anytime i hear him sing or talk he's he's amazing and then my other son ashton is 13 and he is a rising eighth grader and he's taller than parker he's taller than really yeah he's a football player and so yeah they grow i have found that i feed them just about every day and they just keep growing i just keep going and kimberly's doing good she's amazing we're going to celebrate 29 years of marriage in july and uh so uh yeah man we're we're doing well we all had the plague and we all came through it fine we had it for christmas we got it for christmas that was santa's gift to us you really you had covered for christmas yes we did all of you all of us did anybody have it horribly or no none of us kimberly probably got hit harder than anybody she's just now getting her smell back but uh she uh probably she was more um you know tired and you know just kind of didn't felt like she had the flu probably longer than any of us i kind of popped back in a couple of days um but but uh and then the kids were fine but um anyway yeah it didn't but now my manager had it and and we almost lost him uh but he is fully recovered and doing great and uh so god has been really good to us through this and uh i'm grateful that everybody seems to be uh starting to work again we're traveling some again uh we're getting to uh be around people which we were made to do and uh i'm just grateful absolutely but but you know the the the virus gave me an opportunity to do some things that i had not uh had an opportunity to like the podcast right starting this company so um you know i'm excited for you gordon you're going to be one of those musical billionaires for it's over well i'm you know the only way that's going to happen is if bill gives me half of his uh you know his kingdom yeah but uh but seriously you know if you're doing what you love to do and not every day is a day you love but when most days are days you love then we're pretty we're pretty blessed and uh so i'm grateful and uh hope everybody will go subscribe to the podcast and you know what else would help is if you'd leave us a nice review if you enjoy it leave us a nice review rated five stars if you don't like it keep it to yourself don't tell anybody give us a good review that would really help us all right [Music] do you

Channel: Mark Lowry

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Length: 82min 41sec (4961 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 07 2021