“It ended up being most of, almost half of the record, I wrote with those guys,” Powell states. Powell first began bringing these songs to life with songwriters Jeff Pardo and Hank Bentley. I would have thought there’s not a common thread and the songs are different with different people and so it’s going to sound so disjointed, and yet I think my voice and my writing is what kind of brings it all together and makes it all fit.”Įach of the ten tracks on New Creation fit together like sonic puzzle pieces building a picture of Powell’s capabilities as an artist. “I think in the past, I would have been scared of that. “I think every song has a different viewpoint, a different perspective, and different people working on it,” Powell adds. And there’s something exciting about that. There are different musicians and different producers that I’ve never worked with before. It was a new process in the writing and in the recording process… I don’t have the same guys from my band playing on the record. So, therefore, there is a sense of a new creation.

“Even though I’ve been doing this for a long time, for me this is a new direction,” Powell tells American Songwriter, “and it’s me starting over. On Friday (October 15), Powell released his most recent solo record titled New Creation. Since Third Day’s farewell tour in 2018, however, Powell has had more time to focus on the latter part of his career.

Mac Powell‘s distinctive vocals are a staple of the Christian music genre, whether it’s within his work with the Grammy-winning rock band Third Day or out on a solo venture.

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