Church music

Leah.

And you're listening to the Christian Music Guys.

They're the Christian Music Guys.

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Make some noise for the Christian Music Guys.

Um, we've, we've really honestly not blown up is the right word, but we've really been going deeper in our ministry.

And, you know, we.

On today's episode, we sit down with Presence Music.

Absolutely.

I think that that's pretty cool because we're always accused in Christian music of just copying whatever the secular world is doing.

And I'm not saying there's no truth to that, but it's actually, you know, everybody copies everybody.

And we also have to give props to Tooth & Nail who kind of led that.

into that era because in the 90s there i mean whether there's mxpx and a whole living sacrifice well they actually they weren't tooth and nail but the point is is there was a lot of precursors and so i don't think it's fair to say anymore that christian music just follows whatever the world is doing i think it's much more

complex than that right right i mean even i know we the briefly touched on the fact that you guys changed your sound from those first couple albums but like there weren't a lot of industrial rock bands at that time too and you guys were really doing an industrial sound and whether they were like whether they were in other industrial christian rock bands or not like just generally speaking when it came to the industrial music you guys were one of the first you guys are up there i wouldn't

say you were the

But what they don't understand was that the 90s was very in flux and very eclectic.

Let's go! All right.

I tell you, I don't know how many people on a Monday get to sit with a four-time NBA All-Star and one of Christian Music's hottest singers right now, a guy that has a song that went five weeks at number one, but I get to do that today.

So I'm going to fanboy out a little bit.

Mark, how are you? Micah, how are you?

And so that's, that's really the first time I got to hear you live.

I'd heard.

Obviously heard some of your songs and you're just kind of making your rise on the scene, the Christian music scene.

But man, that was so great.

One of the most talented people I've ever been around is my friend, David Hamilton.

He is my guest today, one of the great orchestrators in the history of Christian music.

And I think you're really going to enjoy our conversation today.

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What was the music that you were discovering when you first moved with your family to Memphis from Missouri?

Church music.

God's music.

Church music.

So I went down and heard a bunch of church bands, and I listened to the guitar player, of course.

And they were playing a...