Brandon Lake is Bringing His Faith to Country Music

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Brandon Lake has made a name for himself as one of Christian music’s most successful stars. Now he’s setting his sights on country music and Nashville, teaming up with artists from Jelly Roll and Cody Johnson to Lainey Wilson. In this new episode of Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now, we ask Lake about the intersection between Christian music and country, if he’s worried about faith being exploited by politics, and if listeners of all faiths can have a seat at his table. Country is Here…Nashville is Now. Check out our Hear Now playlist on Spotify, updated weekly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to Nashville Now. I'm your host, senior music editor Joseph Hudak. We are here in the Nashville Now cabin on what is Easter week for many of you who observe and celebrate. That is relevant today because our guest
0:24.2	is Brandon Lake. He is a superstar Christian artist who has crossed over to country music
0:31.0	in oh so many ways. We're going to talk about those very briefly before we welcome here to the Nashville now cabin where we say country is here.
0:42.0	Nashville is now.
0:43.4	Thank you all for joining us.
0:44.7	Thank you all for watching and tuning in and even approaching us.
0:48.5	We've been out about in town and saying hello and how much you like the podcast.
0:53.3	Cannot tell you how much that means to us that you're all watching and connecting?
0:58.7	So yeah, so this is an interesting one.
1:00.8	This is Brandon Lake.
1:02.2	Brandon Lake, who is currently on his King of Hearts tour.
1:05.3	For those of you who do know Brandon Lake, it's probably through his very successful
1:09.8	collaboration with Jelly Roll.
1:12.8	It's titled Hard Fought Hallelujah. They won a Grammy for that song. He also has collaborated with
1:19.1	Bailey Zimmerman on a song called Just Believe. And this Friday, April 3rd, just a few days
1:26.8	from Easter Sunday.
1:28.3	He will release his new song, The Jesus I Know, with Lainey Wilson.
1:33.3	So Brandon Lake's country crossover is happening full speed ahead.
1:39.3	He is working on some music here in Nashville with some very special guests.
1:43.3	I'm sure Lainey Wilson obviously is one of them on their song, The Jesus I Know.
1:48.0	But you know, he's not the first artist in the Christian world, the CCM world, contemporary Christian music,
1:57.0	to come into the country world in the country sphere.
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