Matthew West, Singer/Songwriter/Author - Episode 38

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Matthew West is a four-time GRAMMY® nominee, a multiple-ASCAP Christian Music Songwriter/Artist of the Year winner and Dove Award recipient, and was awarded an American Music Award (2013), a Billboard Music Award (Top Christian Artist, 2014), a K-LOVE Fan Award (2016), and named Billboard’s Hot Christian Songwriter of the Year (2016).

In addition to his own recording career, he has co-hosted the K-LOVE Fan Awards three times and has more than 130 songwriting credits to his name, including cuts by Rascal Flatts, Scotty McCreery, Casting Crowns, Michael W. Smith, Amy Grant, and Mandisa, among others. Selling more than 1.6 million albums to date (TEA), West’s discography includes acclaimed releases: Live Forever (2015), GRAMMY-nominated Into The Light (2012), The Story of Your Life (2010), Something to Say (2008), History (2005) and Happy (2003).

His latest album All In releases September 22, 2017.

Adding author to his list of accolades, West has written five books to date: Give This Christmas Away, The Story Of Your Life, Forgiveness, Today Is Day One, and his newest release, Hello My Name Is. He is also passionate about providing hope and healing through the power of prayer and story, so along with his father Pastor Joe West he founded popwe, a non-profit ministry helping others to craft, share, and live a more meaningful life. Please visit popwe.org for more information.

On this episode of the podcast, we talk with Matthew about the release of his new album, his new book, the story of coming to faith in Christ, his love for baseball, why he picked the Patriots to win the Super Bowl (again) and how an accident almost prevented him from becoming the musician he is today.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sports Spectrum podcast where faith and sports
0:09.8	collide.
0:10.8	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
0:13.6	This is episode number 38 of the Sports Spectrum podcast.
0:18.0	Thank you so much for joining us here on the program today.
0:21.9	As always,
0:27.7	you can download the podcast on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, everywhere podcasts are found,
0:34.5	and find us at Sportspectrum.com. All of our content is there, including our podcast, including a daily devotional every single morning to get your day started in the
0:38.4	Lord and really just some really cool articles and content that we post every single day.
0:43.2	So check it out everything at sportspectrum.com.
0:47.1	Today's guest.
0:48.2	Now, it's not often that we get to talk to somebody who either never played sports or
0:53.9	doesn't work in the sports world or talk
0:56.7	about sports for a living. And for me, as a sports guy, I love music. And I love when I have the
1:04.5	opportunity to talk to people in different sort of realms of the Christian industry.
1:12.6	And Matthew West is one of those guys.
1:14.6	I'm a big fan of Matthew West's music.
1:17.4	I'm a big fan of what he stands for.
1:22.6	And he has, man, he sold a lot of records and had a lot of people listen to his music, you know, whether it's on K-Love or Spotify or anywhere you can listen to music.
1:33.7	But even more, his heart to tell stories through the music that he makes.
1:37.0	And he's also a gigantic sports fan.
1:40.9	And when I found out I had the opportunity to interview him, I was saying yes.
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