Matthew West, Singer/Songwriter - THROWBACK
Sports Spectrum Podcast
Sports Spectrum
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2019
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
On this throwback edition of the podcast, we look back at our September 12, 2017 interview with singer/songwriter Matthew West.
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 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)
You can listen to the entire interview from Episode 38 back in September 2017 here.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome, everyone, to a throwback edition of the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:24.3 | I am Jason Romano. |
| 0:25.3 | Thanks for joining us on the program today. |
| 0:27.5 | We're going to look back to September 12, 2017 on the podcast today. |
| 0:32.4 | It was episode number 38, and our guest was singer and songwriter Matthew West and if you listen to |
| 0:39.5 | K-Love or Christian music Matthew West is one of those guys he's he's been producing |
| 0:44.9 | great music for many many years four-time Grammy nominee a multiple ASCAP Christian |
| 0:50.4 | music songwriter artist of the year award winner Dove Award winner dove award winner dove award recipient Artist of the Year award winner, Dove Award winner, Dove Award |
| 0:55.6 | recipient, K-Love Fan Award winner. |
| 0:58.2 | The guy is excellent at what he does. |
| 1:01.7 | And his latest album that came out at that time, September 2017, was called All In. |
| 1:07.9 | He's got a song out right now called Unplanned on the radio, which is really, really good |
| 1:12.9 | and speaks to the value of life as we know it. And so many of his songs have been fantastic, |
| 1:19.1 | including one of my favorites, the song, Forgiveness, which I used actually as a tool, as a motivation, as a guide, I guess, if you will, to help me |
| 1:31.3 | write my book on forgiveness called Live to Forgive. So lots of good stuff here. We're going to look |
| 1:35.9 | back to our interview with Matthew West. And I talked to him in this segment of the interview |
| 1:40.5 | about the time when his musical career as this great moment is about to happen |
| 1:48.5 | that he's about to sign his first real music deal in July of 2002 and yet something happens |
| 1:54.8 | that almost derails all of it. So let's take a listen to a throwback edition of the Sports |
| 1:59.2 | Spectrum podcast with singer-songwriter Matthew West. |
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