Bart Millard - MercyMe Lead Singer
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Bart Millard is the lead singer of the legendary Christian rock band MercyMe. The band, founded in 1994, has released eight studio albums and had 13 consecutive top-five singles on the Billboard Christian Songs chart.
Millard’s life was depicted in the movie “I Can Only Imagine,” in which actor Dennis Quaid starred as his father who struggled with addiction and violence before coming to faith before his death from cancer. MercyMe's new album INHALE/EXHALE releases everywhere April 30, 2021.
On today’s episode of the podcast, we talk to Millard about his 2 hour meeting with one of his music heroes, the satisfaction of having baseball back, the release of MercyMe's new album INHALE/EXHALE and the unique opportunity to produce a song with his son Sam.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:02.0 | Cannot wait for you to hear our conversation today with Bart Miller, the mercy me lead singer. |
| 0:07.6 | They got a new album out. |
| 0:08.8 | We have a lot of fun, some good conversation here about the album, a little baseball conversation as well, |
| 0:14.1 | and an amazing story of him meeting the singer, one of his heroes, Meatloaf. |
| 0:19.3 | That's all coming up right here on Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:30.7 | This is Sports Spectrum, the intersection of sports and faith, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:37.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:39.9 | Hey, guys, welcome to the show. |
| 0:41.7 | I am Jason Romano, our website, sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:45.2 | Make sure you go check out the website for all of our content here at Sports Spectrum. |
| 0:49.7 | And then if you want to email me directly, if you want to get in touch with us, you can do that by emailing me, Jason at sportspectrum.com. |
| 0:57.1 | That's my email, Jason at sportspectrum.com. |
| 1:00.3 | We got a great conversation today with Bart Miller, the lead singer of Mercy Me. |
| 1:04.7 | They got a new album out called Inhale, Exhale, that releases everywhere April 30th. |
| 1:09.2 | I got a little sneak preview and cannot wait for you to hear this album. I'm a huge Mercy Me fan and this album does not disappoint. It's called Inhale Exhale. So you can pre-order now with Mercy Me. And Bart Millard has been the lead singer of Mercy Me since its inception some 25 plus years ago. He's also a huge sports fan. And we have |
| 1:29.8 | Bart on back in the summer of 2020 and got to kind of extend the conversation, almost an hour |
| 1:35.1 | with Bart and I. Why he was quarantined. Well, this isn't quite as long, but, you know, |
| 1:40.2 | Bart's a friend and they got this new album out and we were able to get him back on and wanted to |
| 1:44.0 | talk to him a little bit about COVID and this this album, the idea of inhale, exhale, |
| 1:48.6 | and a great story meeting his hero, one of his heroes and inspirations for music, Meatloaf. |
| 1:54.7 | Remember the guy, Meatloaf? I call it the band, but it's actually a person. Meatloaf, I would |
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