Joe King

So it's like, it's a, it's just a beautiful scene.

It's a beautiful place to be as an artist because there's hometown pride.

They weren't musical.

There was always church music around.

And yes, that was what I was exposed to early as a kid.

And honestly, some of those old hymns and old praise songs are gorgeous, like heart-wrenchingly gorgeous.

And melodically and even lyrically are very universal songs.

Um, and you know, so that, I think there's, there's also like, I've met so many artists along the way that, that have come up in the church, you know, grew up in the church and learned how to, you know, learned how to play church songs and, and,

And there's something there with it.

I don't know what it is in the water of, of these songs.

It maybe like there's a pop sensibility or something in, in church songs, because if you think about it, like they need to be songs that people can sing right away.

Right.

And they need to be lyrics that people can, you know, connect to and emotionally like attached to.

So I don't know, there was, there was elements there that maybe was like preparing me for songwriting in general.

But yeah, that was, that was some of my background in the church.

That's been a, that's been a journey to work through that.

Has it?

Yeah.

Well, yeah.

I mean, there's, you know, it's, I couldn't, you know, couldn't be myself.