Mac Powell, Third Day Lead Singer - Episode 69
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Mac Powell is the lead singer of the successful christian rock band Third Day. With Mac's leadership, the band has sold over 7 million albums in the United States and had 28 number one radio hits.
Mac won the 2001 Gospel Music Association award for "Male Vocalist of the Year."
A die-hard sports fan, Mac's allegiances belong to the Alabama Crimson Tide, the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Falcons.
In 2012, Mac released his first solo album, "Mac Powell" and followed that up in 2014 with his second album "Southpaw."
In August of 2017, Third Day celebrated their 25th anniversary and released their 13th studio album, "Revival."
Mac is married to Aimee, and has five children.
On this episode of the podcast, Mac shares his love for "Roll Tide," how he got started in the music industry, advice for young musicians trying to make it in 2018, why Larry Bird was his guy growing up, hanging with athletes who are fans of his music, and how discipleship on the road as a musician is a discipline that he implements daily.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports |
| 0:08.3 | collide. |
| 0:09.4 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome, everyone, to the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:15.2 | My name's Jason Romano. |
| 0:16.2 | Thank you so much for being a part of today's program. |
| 0:18.6 | This is episode number 69, and we are grateful and |
| 0:22.9 | thankful to have you joining us here on the podcast. As always, you can subscribe and download |
| 0:28.0 | this podcast on Apple, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and of course, all of our content is found |
| 0:34.0 | at Sportspectrum.com, where we post a daily devotional every single morning at 6 a.m. |
| 0:40.3 | Check it out. Great way to start your morning and get yourself kind of focused and |
| 0:45.0 | in tuned on what God has planned for you each and every day. Today's guest is Mack Powell. |
| 0:53.1 | Now, he's the lead singer of the band Third Day. Third Day has been |
| 0:56.3 | around for a long time, longtime Christian band from the early 90s is when they were formed. And |
| 1:02.1 | Mack has been the frontman and the lead vocalist for Third Day for many, many, many years. He was |
| 1:07.5 | part of the creation and founding of this band. Mac is also a gigantic sports fan. |
| 1:14.2 | And it's not often we get to talk to musicians here on the podcast, but it's been a treat to talk to |
| 1:19.9 | the few that we have, including Matthew West and a few others. So this was really a treat to kind of |
| 1:26.4 | talk to Mac about the music business, |
| 1:28.3 | about what it looks like behind the scenes to kind of grind and get started in the music world. |
| 1:34.2 | And also talk to him about, of course, sports. And he's a gigantic Alabama fan and a big |
| 1:38.6 | Atlanta Braves fan. So we talk sports with him there as well. But really fun interview, really interesting interview with Mack. |
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