Live from the Pathway Studios in Johnston proper, you are live from the Path. Live from the Path. Hey, thanks for being with us here tonight. For the high-dollar special broadcast coming to the Live from the Path Studios. Dan dressed up for it. Hey, Dan. I like it. I like what you've done with yourself these days.

Really? Yeah, I do. I do. I'm pretty impressed that you're paying attention. Hey, so it's an… We're scared. I'm going to look at you for a while. Don't let it freak you out.

So, hey, it's kind of cool. It's early. For those of you that generally join the show at 10 o'clock, we're broadcasting a 6 o'clock special edition show, especially for the Andersons. Jessa and Jordan Anderson have joined us in the studio again. Hello. This makes you guys rank pretty high, by the way. Yeah, we get special treatment. 6 p.m. treatment.

I feel like I owe you guys something. You'll get it. Yeah. We'll let you know. There's a list. Send me an invoice. But, boy, I'm excited that we were able to find time to get you guys back in here. Yeah.

You are some busy folk. We are very busy these days, and our little girl keeps us to the max busy. So, if we're not busy with music, we're definitely chasing her around, and she's starting to learn to talk, but not really. So, we spend a lot of time just looking at her going, what? What? Tell me what you want. Use your words that you don't have yet. So, it's good.

I mean, I know exactly what I'm saying. Today, she was doing this motion, like she was chewing. So, I kept asking her, are you hungry? And she would say, no. And finally, I said, do you want some water? And she was like, yes. Like, oh, okay. Because chewing and water, of course.

Why wouldn't I assume that? So, yeah. It's exciting. Actually, I feel like that doesn't go away, at least for me. We have a two-year-old, and she talks, and I usually have to have mom translate. I mean, they're full sentences, but I – Usually, my mom can even translate. I thought you were going to say you don't know the difference between, like, you want something to drink, you want something to eat.

Your wife has to guess. I have a conversation. I don't know what it is. I sit in the chair and kind of grunt. When something shows up, make me happy. That's a good quality in a lady, though. Yeah, there you go. If I could sit in a chair like, grunt.

He wants fried chicken. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't last for a long time. Probably not. Probably not. He'd be hungry. Yeah. So, also, Mike doesn't make the early ones. Mike's at home with his family.

He's going to go out of town, so he decided to stay home and spend a little time with his family. So, my lovely bride is joining us in the studio today. Hello. Hello. A little easier to look at than Mike. Yeah, no kidding. Every time I look over, it's like a mirror. And I purposely don't use mirrors.

So, yeah. A little to the right is a little off, but right on is excellent. So, when we were talking about you guys being busy, so you had a CD. And this is a CD that you had recorded a while back, right? Yeah. But BEC has picked it up and is distributing it, yeah? Yeah. So, we did an independent release in 2010 and then re-released a CD with BEC this September.

So, it was quite a journey for us, just time-wise and to see what God was doing. But we're excited that it's released and kind of starting our journey with BEC. And they've been really great, though. And then, did they just, you had independently released that. You said, did they just take it and kind of push it on out? Did you have to re-record or add any songs or anything? We re-recorded one. Just, we had the opportunity and we thought, you know, why not?

Why not go back and just see, is there anything that we would love to just give a new voice or do? And then, we added a song, which was kind of unexpected, but it just happened to work out and we had the time. So, it was exciting for us just having the songs for so long and give them a little bit of new life. And it gives us a change of pace so we don't have the same thing for years on end. So, they have some input in that then, like ideas, suggestions? That was, we just, we teamed up with a producer, Pete Kipley, who's so talented, works with Phil Wickham and has just done so much. So, he had, we were kind of like, you know what you're doing, you know, we really trust his judgment. So, it was exciting for us just to team up with someone new and get new thoughts, new ideas.

And yeah, and so, combined with the work that Brandon and Kevin did on the album as a whole, we're just, we're so thrilled with it and excited about it. So, it's been good. And I remember, I remember looking when it was released by BEC and I was kind of looking at the song list and stuff. Because the last time we spoke, we're like, well, where can people get CDs? And it was kind of in a transition there where you could go, you could listen to a few online, but you couldn't really go buy anything. Yeah, now it's all back up, back available. Yeah, and I looked at the song list and you had played, I think three of them that you had played on the show the last time were on the CD. And it was kind of fun to hear because those were the only versions of the songs that I had known and to go back and kind of listen to them.

Yeah. You know, when you had a chance to fully produce, it was pretty cool. The whole CD is very, very, is very good. And one of the things that, I was reading some interviews and stuff that you've done and I found was pretty consistent. And something that I actually had been thinking was kind of just the raw honesty that's in a lot of those songs. I mean, even, you miss a lot if you don't listen to the lyrics closely. Like, I think you miss a lot of real depth to a lot of the songs that I don't know that you always find. There's usually some gems in certain songs or albums that people put out.

But I would say it's true for pretty much everything that's on there. I mean, there's just a lot of depth to it and something that people can walk away from. But it's done in a way that people can kind of apply it to themselves. They can see a lot of themselves in the things that you guys are doing. And I don't know, the same was true. I listened to the first CD, too, and I don't know, it's just consistent where there's something people can see and work with in those tunes. So, congratulations. I think it's great.

Well, it's definitely. I'm a lyric writer. I love the words. And I kind of started playing the piano just because I needed an instrument. I'm like, you can't really write a song without some sort of music. So, I definitely love spending time on that. And it's nice to know that that comes across. It's always nice to get feedback.

You know, you're, like, holed up in a room writing songs thinking, I wonder if this is actually what I think it's going to be when someone else hears it. Yeah, do I just think this is cool? Do you get a lot of feedback from, like, when you're out on the road from people or a lot of interaction? I mean, you know. That's the neat thing for us is nothing we're doing day to day has really changed much. We still, we go, do concerts. Jordan handles all of our booking. The motor driver picks you up.

Yes. Right. Champagne, caviar, all those. Yeah, yeah, no, we still get in the same car. It's packed to the gills, and Jordan handles our schedule. But we just get a chance to do what we love and communicate and then just hang out and just, like, meet whoever's there. And so many of the people that come to the concerts will come and just hang and say hey. And so to meet people and hear their stories and once in a while have it really connect well in that moment with something we said or sung is, like, just such a surreal thing.

And we still, it's just such a blessing every time. So it's encouraging for us to do what we love and feel like it's new every time we get to step out the door. It's not the same old thing every day. So it's good. It's fun. It's fun, yeah. Well, that's going to be kind of cool to be able to do something that you love alongside someone that you love. Like, have the opportunity to, you know, have that experience where your life is able to be together a lot of the time and sharing in the things that you're developing and doing.

Like, we can move furniture together. We're there. We didn't used to be, but we are now. Well, that's kind of how we feel about us on the road. We've had to grow quite a bit. Just because, you know, when you're doing something that you love, you want to hold on tightly to it. So it's like, you know, when you want to write a song together, it's like, well, I really want it to be this way. We've had to really work just on, you know, how to do directions.

The process is where we have to work hard at coming together because we can, you know, when you know what you're going to do, it's easy to do it together. But when you're going in with a blank slate, then the ideas start flying and we are, like, on totally different wavelengths, usually when we're writing. So we're going to, I think tonight we're going to play a new one that we just wrote together. And so we're working forward. We're taking steps in a, yeah. So we're hoping there's no, like, arguments in the middle of the song. Right. No.

You didn't sing that line the right way. Yeah. That's not what I wanted it to say. Yeah, that would be. It's sometimes uncomfortable to hear a work in progress by a couple of singer-songwriters do it. Oh, yeah. Do you leave the towel on the ground? We always, I always laugh because sometimes we'll go out to dinner and it's like, we just sit there.

Because we've been in the car for 10 hours and it's like, really, is there anything left to talk about? But people probably look at us and think, oh, they're so young to be, like, you know, not talking to each other and looking so sad. We love each other, I promise. It's unique, for sure. Well, so now you've kind of enticed me. Let me hear about this new song. Yeah. This is called Caught Me By Surprise.

And the way Jordan and I met was actually pretty interesting. I was traveling with a school, a university group singing, and they were our host family. So for someone who's not familiar, that's just a family that opens up their home and says, hey, we've got beds and couches and whatever. We'll host you for the night and give you a meal and all that. So Jordan's family hosted us and we met and we're married about a year later. So it was a funny kind of chance meeting there for us. And we joked that God just delivered his wife straight to his doorstep. It was pretty easy for him.

But this song is like… I haven't had that work. I haven't had a dinner saying, so how do you like our house? How do you like me? I know. I mean, it's like when I tell people that story, I'm like, that sounds so odd. Like, we just met, you know, one time and then we left the next day, but we stayed in touch. And he says I flirted.

I say he flirted. So, you know, we'll just leave it at we both have a mutual interest going on. And so this song is kind of loosely inspired by that chance meeting you might have with the person you come to love. You said hello, and before I could stop it, I was falling in. Look in your eyes, I was mesmerized right there. And that's just how much I've been missing. It's only a scene, so, but the stars would align. What happens?

I like taking my chances. Every day since then has been nothing but men. It's only a scene. You'll be by my side. I'm picturing this, the video here. You know, it's a nice black and white thing, and you meet each other. Then you're like at a, I don't know, just picturing this, I can't say a river because it was more of a calm thing and fireworks going. That was in color, you know, and frogs jumping.

And it was just a happy scene. Everybody was so excited. It was just, that's probably not what you were all we're going for. He's commingled a beginning of a Folgers commercial. Yeah. And then, I think it's Disney. Kiss the mermaid. Yeah.

The little mermaid, yeah. That's right, the frogs. I made a joke. We had a concert last night, and I kind of made a joke. Like, we were out with some friends for lunch, and they're pretty newly married. So, we were talking about just those first kind of months, and you're getting used to being married, and all of a sudden, you're going, this is actually really hard. I wasn't expecting it. So, I'm like, that song is like, you know, the first week or something where you, like, meet that person, and then all of a sudden, flash forward, and you're like, oh, we got to work really hard at this because all those magical feelings take a lot of work to maintain.

So, I'm like, it's nice to have a snapshot of that. But Jordan's like, what are you saying? We're like, on stage. Like, how am I supposed to take this? I thought it was great. But, it's like, you know. I still feel the same way. Oh, exactly.

The same. I'm sure. But, it's fun to have some songs that are more just happy-go-lucky. Yeah. You know, you don't have to think about the work it takes all the time. Sometimes it's plain fun. You know, my daughter's 14, my youngest daughter, and we were just talking Christian music one day, you know. And she was going, her complaint was, how come it's always so deep?

Like, can't we just turn on a song and enjoy it? Can you just have fun and be happy? I'm like, I never thought of it, you know. Yeah. And, you know, just a happy song. Yeah. Well, I think, you know, you don't want to trivialize life. And as a songwriter, that's a challenge because you think, I don't want it to all just come out as if my life is perfect.

Because I'm a Christian, and I'm always in love, and, you know, I never sin, I never struggle. So, I think a lot of songwriters then gravitate toward all the really deep, serious things where you're, like, depressed after you listen to it. The meaning of life. Yeah, I don't know. We're trying to balance. Jordan has that happy-go-lucky jazz style that he's really good at. So, he actually started that song, and then we finished it together. I feel like that was a big step.

Yeah. It's a big moment. We didn't have, like, you know. It's like you started in black and white. Yeah. Right. And you ended, like, with all the color. It worked out.

We're happy to be able to write together once in a while now. We completed the grocery list. Kind of. You know. It happens. It happens. What did we just do yesterday, the day before, that you said when we go on a creative basis, it does not do. Oh, we were trying to write for the homeschool co-op.

Oh, right. That's right. We should try to decide. She's in charge of the music program this coming quarter or whatever. And I, of course, have thought of some kind of grandiose play in which we use the – do you remember the song Little Willie? By – Little Willie, Willie won't go home. Nothing?

No. Really? It's not there. It's from when we were little. It's like 70s or something. Yeah, so anyway. Okay, it was from before when we were little. I wanted to name this butterfly Willie, and then the kids could sing it to it, and they're trying to get it to leave, and it won't leave.

And then they try a bunch of stuff to get it to go out, and they sing to it, and they play with it. So that was my idea. But he wants it to be an imaginary butterfly. Yeah, I don't want to. But nobody actually sees. I don't have to build one. I mean, kids – oh. No, no.

It's true. I don't want to have to build one either. But I don't know that, like, the audience will grasp a concept of a tent, imaginary butterfly. There's options. All I'm saying is there's options that I could get a butterfly in. We don't jive on creative. No, no. Jared Roy.

Color schemes. Have him play the butterfly. It's hard to be creative with another person. It is really difficult. The people that do it so well, like, you know, musical duos or husband and wife, I'm like, how do you just – how did that happen? Yeah. But I guess we'll learn how that happens. Maybe next time we come, we'll share the secret with you.

There you go. If we'll have it all figured out. I want to know. We'll have you in just after the disastrous butterfly performance in 2012. Boy, had you only gotten here a week earlier. Children were crying. We wouldn't be in this position. People start throwing stuff on stage.

He called my butterfly Willie. They all joined public school. Yeah, it was bad. We shouldn't be allowed to have the kids this long. Hey, so for those of you guys that are listening, you guys still have some stuff going on in town on the 11th for First Federated Youth. Is that open to the public or is that a – That's their youth event. So it might look sketchy if, like, you know –

People can come. Adults are hovering in the back. Okay. You might have to explain your reasoning for coming to youth events and lawyering. Okay, bring a butterfly. Yeah, bring a butterfly. Bring Willie. Don't get it.

Oh, yeah. What are those Happy Jesus Tune guys? That's what it's doing in the back of the youth room, just staring at our kids. Okay, so don't creep out the youth on the 11th. Let's do – how about the 15th? There's 11 a.m. I assume that's a service and then 7 p.m. We'll be in the service and then there's a concert.

It's us and Wren Collective and David Bush who is actually on staff at First Federated. The notorious David Bush. He is releasing a CD. So plenty of musical options that night and that, I'm sure, is open to the public and it won't be creepy at all. You can do beard and everything. So that's on the 15th at 7 o'clock at First Federated with David Bush, Wren Collective, and Jess Anderson. You said 7 o'clock? 7 o'clock.

P.m.? 7 p.m.? I hope it's 7 p.m. At First Federated on the 15th? So I think you guys – it's a quick jaunt. You're in Florida on the 25th, 28th, 29th? Yeah. Yeah, we stopped in St. Louis for what?

A school chapel? Yeah. I don't think it's on the website yet. Yeah, that one is also youth, school, chapel. So no creeping out with youth. You've got to get a sign up here. I know I need to put a special note next to it. Don't be creepy.

Like a child. Yeah. A little picture of a sick child. It'd be better if you went the opposite way and got a guy with a big beard and then just a no. Things that we will not tolerate at this concert. Guys with big beards. A little legend at the bottom. That would be good.

That would be good. Oh, darn it. It's a little unhappy on me out there. Yeah. Yeah. And then we're in Florida, so we're hoping for some nice weather. It's been really mild here. It's been great.

It has been surprising. And so we've been enjoying that. But it would be nice if Florida was even warmer. Even warmer than this. Yeah. So we're excited about that. And I think we're home for three days or so. Yep.

So I feel like I may have asked you this before, but is there someone squatting at your place while you're gone? Actually, you know what's funny? Right now there are squatters at our house, which would be Jordan's sister and her husband. They just moved from L.A. back to Nashville across the country. So they landed at our house while they're going to be preparing to move into their new place. So it's kind of nice for us just to know that someone's there and, you know, nothing weird is going on there. Like raccoons building a nest in the walls or something while we leave. But, yeah, being gone for six weeks at a time is not preferable just because you like to know your house is standing when you come back home.

So, yeah, this time we've got house sitters. I suppose I probably shouldn't have asked you that, right, because now it's quite public. But the noise of your dress again, do you mind if I stay at your place while you're gone? I know that's the funny thing about having your schedule online. You're just like, well, clearly everyone knows we're not in town. But we do. We have a lot of house guests, surprisingly. Like we usually just have a key that's very well concealed for any creepers out there.

You will never find it. We just, you know, people call us and they're like, we're coming through town. And we're like, well, we're not home, but here's the key and make yourself home. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the local police department thinks that you have a drug house. Which are weird people coming in and out. The Andersons are only here once every six weeks. Our neighbors are probably really confused because we'll kind of give them a heads up. Like, hey, if you see anything weird going on, just, you know, call the police.

So hopefully none of our friends will look like the weird people. Yeah, because they might get called. Actually, we moved into a house in Nashville, not the one we live in now, but we are pretty sure it was a drug house before we moved in. Because within the first couple months of living there, late at night, we would get people knocking on the door. That's creepy. Yeah, one guy showed me food stamps.

And I'm like, at the time, I was like, what are those? And I'm like, looking, like, I don't know, what's happening? And then it's dawning on me, like, I think there were some trades going on here in the past. I did not know you could buy narcotics with food stamps. That actually is surprising. I don't think it's encouraged. I'm going to put that on a list of things I did not feel like I was going to learn from the Anderson family. I know.

Yeah, when you live in downtown, you learn more than you're expecting to learn, definitely. We had the police over more than once. We've had really interesting neighbors. Yeah, we have. When we look back at all our houses, we had a neighbor. This wasn't his real name, but he went by the handle, the CB handle possum. Oh, and you might be wondering how we knew that. How do I know the CB handle?

Well, our houses were connected by some sort of ground wire or something or other. So when he was on his CB, it would broadcast through anything with a speaker that was on in our house. What? So the TV, the amp, the computer speakers. I, like, half expected the oven to be, like, possum coming out of it. We're like, what? So eventually we went over there and we're like, what's happening? Like, we hear this and we weren't sure who it was until we came home one day and there was this giant hole in the ground.

And then this huge antenna, at least twice the size of their house, went up. And we're like, that must be where it's coming from. That's the guy. That's possum. That's him. So possum was a neighbor. Yeah, we just, we know how to pick really great poems. Well, so take note of this.

When you're on the road and you're trying to be creative, you know, one of your CDs that can come out when you're having a real dry time, you're trying to figure out, you'll just call it Neighbors. Yeah. And every song that has something to do, they don't have to know that. I mean, you know. Right. But that's a good inspiration. I like that. We could, like, instead of possum, pick some other wildlife animal.

He'll never know. I don't think he'll even know if we use possum. I doubt he's going to die. He was the first guy in line for your latest album. Unless we broadcast it over, like, the CB network. He might catch it. That's untapped. That's a good thought.

You know what? Yeah, seriously. Just, you know, turn it on, hold it up. You guys could just set up a, what are those, like, handheld CB things? Like a ham. Start brought, yeah. That is an awesome idea. We should totally do ham radio and, like, CB stuff from here.

We need a new audience for you guys. Yeah, yeah. That would be good. They don't need more ideas, really. This is awesome. Who listens to CB besides guys named possum and people that are over 85? People who can't go anywhere. They have nothing else to do but to listen to what we do on the CB radio.

I love this. Hmm. Yeah. Next time we come. We'll be able to monopolize. Yes. We'll be awesome. Then we'll have guys with beards showing up at events all the time.

Wait. You can't come. Didn't you see the sign on the website? Oh, this is awkward. I thought no guys with brown beards. My beard is tickled with gray. Well, we are in studio with Jessa and Jordan Anderson. And, hey, so that's an interesting question.

You guys do a lot of driving. Yes. So that's a lot of time for the radio. What's in your radio right now? Like, what are you guys listening to? Man, we love Need to Breathe. You guys were just playing that when we walked in. So that new album has been in pretty heavy rotation.

And then Jordan just got – you got a few CDs for Christmas, which we normally don't do a lot of CDs just because, you know, you can download stuff. And Spotify now, we're kind of – we're starting to get into the world of Spotify, which, as an artist, you're kind of like, do I like this idea? Or do – you know, I still want people to buy my stuff. So we try and support artists by actually buying stuff also. But it helps, like – I mean, if you remember that Backstreet Boys song, Suddenly, that you just have to listen to that was popular when you were in seventh grade, you just pull it right up. No problem. So, yeah, we – what are the new CDs? We got Switchfoot's newest CD, which is pretty phenomenal.

We really like it. Songwriting, awesome there. And Coldplay, new one, newer one. I don't know when these were released, but – Yeah. Yeah, so – and I love – I've been pulling up Nicole Nordman's old stuff, just – I'm writing a lot and kind of love her lyrics and her style. So I'm getting inspired by some of the stuff that I grew up listening to, so it's fun to just be able to go back. And I love new music, and I also love rediscovering the old music, so it's fun.

We don't listen to ourselves. That's about the only rule when we're in the car, as long as it's not us. Yeah, it's – yeah. Not that I would know it on the same level, but I mean – I have recordings in my shower. You listen back to all your sermons to encourage yourself. Oh, this is going to be good. Like, I know this is going to be good right here.

We do a lot of podcasts, too, since we're not home as much as we'd like. Our church in Nashville does podcasts, so we try and stay current. You probably get the Life on the Path podcast. Every week. The cool thing, like, when we go home, we'll do our small groups if we're home. Yeah, like, you are never coming back. But we try and stay connected, so if we get a chance to hit small group – but they always discuss a sermon, so you're like, we've got to stay kind of involved, so that's – it's

good for us to connect a little bit and stay grounded with our church, even though it's been – normally we try and be there once a month if we can, which still isn't that much, but it's been a while since we were back. So how – when you get back at church, people look at it like, oh, it's Jess and George. I mean – Or is it just, oh, yeah, hey, how you doing? I think some people – our church is young and growing, so a lot of people, like, think we're visitors, and we're like, hey.

We're not new, I promise, but we do go here. But, yeah, there's a lot of, like, our small group friends know that we're gone, and thanks to Facebook, you can kind of stay in touch a little bit easier than you would be able to, and normally when we walk in, they're like, hey, oh, my gosh, you guys are alive in a town in a church. There was a creepy guy hanging out in your place. Yeah, really. A bearded man on your website.

We thought, what happened to him? Yeah, so it's nice for us to have those greetings once in a while. Have you ever been – and we listened to the radio and had a song of yours come on? Once or twice it's happened. A lot of times people, like, will text you, like, turn on this station right now, you know, because you're coming into town and they know or whatever, and we get – do you guys know Heytel? It's, like, an app where you can just record a little message and, like, send it, and the

person can get it right then, so it's, like, texting, but voice messaging. Yeah. It's a different one. And we have one friend that consistently, every time he hears my song on the radio, will, like, Heytel it and record it and then, like, sing over it and send it, but it's all muffled and gross sounding. It should also be mentioned that it's a male that's doing this. Oh, yeah.

So, yeah, we get a lot of, like, Hey, your songs. And it's always weird hours, too. So I'm like, I don't know about what's – That's got to be rough for a dude. Some of those get pretty high. Yeah. I can't – We should keep some of those and use them.

I know. To promote our songs. I don't know. That might have a counter effect. Right. Here's what we don't sound like. Yeah. No beards and we don't sound like this.

Come to our show. Well, to get away from me doing bad impressions of music, did you guys have another one that you'd like to be willing to share with us? Yeah. We have another new one that we'll do. This is actually one that Jordan wrote and I might have stolen it a little bit because I really liked it a lot. He let me.

I did let you steal it. He let me steal it. So it wasn't stealing. You've got the copyright infringement stuff down. Yeah. You're kind of battling it out. Yeah. That's where it gets tricky.

That actually did happen one time where he – I like casually just was like, hey, that song you were working on a while ago, are you going to finish it? And he was like, oh, no, I don't think so. And then a couple weeks later it was like on my demo tracks and he's like, did you steal my song? We didn't even have a conversation. Maybe. We were just listening through it and I was like, I know that from somewhere.

So familiar. Wait a minute. Yeah, it went on the album. But this one he wrote and it's called You Go Before Us and it's definitely – it's one we've been doing a lot at church and hopefully we'll go on our next album whenever that happens. And I just – I really love the picture of God just leading us forward and just being able to rely on him. Like if I was a soldier in battle, which I think will probably never happen, I would

hope, I would want to know that who was in front of me, my leader, was reliable and trustworthy. And so this is definitely that kind of battle cry of like God is fearless and he goes before us and we can trust him when we follow. So. It's by your mighty hand, walking in your path. You are good, you have already won this war, marching on before. You are good, you go before us.

I love that one. I like the reminder of God as the steadfast, you know, leveler of whatever's happening. Yeah. It was weird. I was reading in 1 John and talking about light and stuff and I got to thinking this week about God just being – it kind of made me think how people got into worshiping the sun. It's because you look at something and it's the same.

It's the same all the time. It hits everybody the same. It's powerful. It's warm. If you are a dark character, you flee from it. If you are not a dark character, you run to it. You want to be enveloped in it. And I don't know, just kind of that strength of like this is God as the sun and it's the

great equalizer and the great warmth. And like if I'm just willing to let myself go and kind of like be a part of that light and be led by it. And I don't know, I kind of – I got that image from this. Just like he's walking ahead of us. He beats me to the day every time. He leads me through that day. I love it.

Yeah. Yeah. We've gotten a great response from that one and I always like it because I can just brag on it because I didn't write it. I don't have to be like modest about it. I'm like, I know, it's awesome, isn't it? So, yeah, we're excited about that one and it's fun to have new stuff too. You know, I thought about that a little bit today because what is a relatively new CD

as far as being released by BEC, you've actually had for quite a while. So, like, you're playing things that you've had around for, you know, quite a bit. And I remember Jordan had mentioned something new. I thought, well, they just got a CD. How many cats? And I thought, no, no, that thing's a while old. So you probably have a bunch of stuff that you're looking to kind of – The songs date to, like, the writing of them, 2008, 2009.

And, yeah, so even though they're new and you go through that process of kind of recruiting them in the studio, it's like these are songs I've lived with and are really a part of me and have that really good, like, familiar feeling. But it's really fun to kind of do something different and think, oh, I've got to be on my toes a little bit and remember the words and remember how it goes and just think through, you know, what it means and really make it just personal and apply so that we can share it that way. So it's fun and working hard to get a bunch of new songs so that we can start thinking about another album.

It's, like, so far away and yet it'll come up so fast. Well, that has to be interesting too because you have a group of people who are hitting these things for the first time on something that you haven't had for a while because that's interesting that you have to kind of make sure that it's still life, has a ton of life and is relevant to you even though, I mean, time has passed between, you know, when you were in the mindset that created it and stuff. And to answer the question on the chat, Kevin Lindgren, they do offer it for download. You can buy both, both albums are available digitally at Amazon.

You can do digital downloads on Fundamentally Broken and Not What I Thought. I would highly recommend both. I actually just, it's a funny story on Fundamentally Broken. We were at the Right to Life book sale or whatever and I'm kind of peeking through looking at stuff and all of a sudden the CD puffs up and I'm like, oh, score! So I picked it up and I got that and Liam Neeson reading the Polar Express. Both excellent. Which is very good.

Yeah, it's good. Funny. But because, so we had heard what you guys had done in the studio with us and a little bit from Not What I Thought that was on your website and I listened to Fundamentally Broken and it wasn't what I expected, but it was very good. Like it was a little different. It is different, yeah.

But also excellent. I really do, I like a lot of that stuff. It was a little bit, some of the arrangements were a little bit funkier in that one. But I really like it. I thought it's an excellent, so I would highly recommend both albums. And you can also buy them on the website. If you go to jessanderson.com, there's a link there. You can get both of them for $15, I think.

Yeah. And Kevin Lerner, you would look good in the jessanderson shirt. I think you should pick that up. Yes, Kevin. Yeah, so that's also where you would go. You can sign up for the blog. You have a blog through Tumblr. Information about upcoming shows and the merch shop where you can pick up shirts and CDs.

All highly recommended. And there's a cool picture of jessanderson in a giant hat on the front. Did you get to keep that hat? I didn't. You know, the girls that set the thing up, somebody brought it. I'm like, where did this come from? They found it at a thrift store. Like, I never find this cool stuff.

I find like really gross old shoes. Or like, you know, you're like, who would donate this even? And then other people walk in and they find cool hats. And sometimes you see people on the street and like, you know, you stop and like, I love your shoes or your bag. And like, oh, yeah, I got a Goodwill for $1. And you're like, okay, really? Like, when do you go? When it opens?

Or like, do you rummage through stuff before they put it in the store? Because I always find the weird stuff. That's what I get, like a shoe horn and a herb alcohol. Those are two things I get at the Goodwill. I stop going in high school because they just don't have stuff my size. Yeah, I like, I just love to go see what's there. And, you know, it doesn't bother me to do old as new. You've got left alone.

I know. When I was first, in my 20s and I was preaching at a church, I thought, I need to have a, you know, back then I wore suits every day, you know. And I thought, I need to have like a Salvation Army or whatever Goodwill suit to put on for baptisms. Because I want to go French in there and I'll be like, you know. For years I looked. And I finally just thought, well, this is kind of stupid. I don't need them anyway. But never found one.

So you would wear a suit for the baptism. Wow. Well, that was my thought. I had these big waders, you know. The one we have now, you can't go outside and do it, you know. Rubber. Yeah, exactly. The big fisherman thing.

I thought, well, I'll just put this thing over it so it doesn't look so like I'm a fisherman, you know. Do you still have that VandyCamp suit? Like the thing that the VandyCamp fisherman, is that what we're talking about? Like the guy in the front of the fist sticks? You know what I'm saying? Like with the marks of the face. Yeah. Do you still have that?

I quit using them years ago. Well, because like the baptism we have, baptismal we have now, you know. You just stand on the outside and you do the same thing. Oh, you don't have to be submerged. Yeah. And then later on I thought, well, you know what? I can wear a pair of swimsuits, swim shorts, you know, whatever. So you might want to back away from that swimsuit thing.

It gets great response. This is what gets people to the baptism. Come and see me in my swimsuit. Our church does it inside, but we just, we don't have a baptismal, we meet in like this warehouse. And so it's this tub, which always ends up getting everywhere. I'm like, we should probably do these outside, seeing as we live in Nashville. But it's exciting, because you never quite know who's going to get wet.

And it's always freezing, too. Like when they get in, they're always like, it's fine. No, I'm good. Are you sure? It's fine. It's so good. Yeah, exactly. That's the Holy Spirit.

Maybe like dump some hot water, like boil a tea kettle in the back or something. Oh, man. I knew following God would have sacrifice. I didn't have to start so soon. It's like, you know, church plants, where we go to a church plant that's a couple years old, and you guys are getting, working on getting your building. But before you have all that stuff, you got to be creative. That's where most of ours were at other churches on off hours, so I started doing the

swimsuit thing. I did notice when I did the Speedo, it took away from the event. People just didn't remember the baptism so much. That's kind of surprising. None of the pictures were of the people in the baptism. I don't understand why we're not getting any new baptism sign-ups. There's Facebook pictures for me going. There's three parts to the resurrection, and the guy just is not wanting to come back.

No. Let it end. Well, Jesus said I have to. You're listening to Live from the Path. We're in the studio with Jess and Jordan Anderson, who are in town. There was a, oh wait, I forgot the date of the non-creepy gig. The 15th. On the 15th at First Federated, there's a, sounds like an album release party for David

Bush with Wren Collective and Jess Anderson, and that is at 7 o'clock. You can get more information on that by going to jessanderson.com. Also, a solid spot to see what's going on in their lives and to pick up some music. You can listen to it free at the bottom, but only a few. Yeah, there's a few on there. If you want to rock out to a couple, they're free at the bottom. To give you a taste of thirst. That's right.

I must have more. You can also listen to 30-second snippets on Amazon. Yeah, I think iTunes probably has the previews of the snippets. Yeah, I don't suppose you get to choose the 30 seconds. They just kind of randomly, I don't really pay attention, I guess. I was just talking to someone about that because they were like lamenting the fact that on iTunes and whatever, you can only hear a certain portion. And like as an artist, you just hope they pick a good portion.

It's like the first 30 seconds of instrumental where people are like, wait a second, what? Yeah, hopefully it's a chorus or something like maybe people would recognize. So I was looking around, and did you guys post the tabs to her tunes, or did somebody else do that without telling you? There's a few. Because they're out on like, even on, now you had posted some chord charts on your website. I remember I'd seen that. But like if you go to like guitartabs.com or the Guitar Archive, someone has gone through

and answered. You have arrived. Did you? I did not. Jordan stays up late at night after I go to bed and puts up on the internet. John. I almost thought that because the username is jessandersontabs. And I thought, wait a minute.

Jordan's posting. But yeah. For the best of my knowledge, I did not do it. Someone has taken the liberty of putting that so it's in the wide world so people can find it. Yeah. We get a lot of requests for chords, so I'll have to like have Jordan look and make sure they're all right before I send people there.

I think some of the words weren't quite right, though. That's always interesting, too. I mean, I have lyrics on my website, but it's always interesting to see. Like, I'll look up a song sometimes just to play it at church or for my own, just to learn it. And sometimes you look at the words and think, that cannot be what the words are. Wait a second. You go back and listen and think, I don't know.

But yeah, hopefully. We'll have to check that out. They were too far off. They were pretty close. Anyway. I don't know. That's a positive time. That's cool.

That's the big time. If you're on the tab sheets, someone is going, I love this. And the illegal download site when the album came out. We started noticing it. On the bit tour. I'm like, oh. It's kind of sad, but it kind of feels a little popular. Upsetting.

Maybe flattering in some way. In a sad, illegal way. Flatter. We were just in Ecuador the first week of December. It was our fourth time. And then we have gone to do music and work with the humanitarian organization. But we also went to the mall one night with some missionary friends of ours. And in Ecuador, they sell pirated DVDs and stuff because there's no regulation.

So you go to the mall, and there's a store, and you buy these DVDs for like a dollar. And they're homemade. Yeah, just dial in the open. It's not a store. Yeah. I mean, it's like in the mall. And our friends who are missionaries are like, don't judge us. We're getting them for someone else.

I'm like, okay. It was weird, though, because you could buy like a collection, like Brad Pitt would be on the front of a box, but it would be all his movies. So anything he was ever in, you could buy this set. It was kind of handy that they couldn't get it that way. But the cover pictures that they chose for most of these were just bad pictures. I'm like, with the internet, like certainly you could do a Google search and find a more flattering picture that wasn't from like 1991 of Angelina Jolie or whatever.

That's probably what they know is the outdated one. Probably. That's very true. Yeah. So we were looking at a lot of them and I was like, who are those? Oh, that's that person. I guess it's been a while since that headshot was taken when they first got started. But yeah, they said like 90% of the time the DVDs work.

Wait, are you guys implying that the Ecuadorian culture is like 10, 15 years behind? Could be. Like they love Billy Crystal in Ecuador. He's still popular with City Slickers, too. I love it. So if you guys ever need pirated $1 DVDs. We'll ask your missionary friends. I wouldn't put that burden on you, but I know who will do it.

Yeah. The missionaries. All right. Well, cool. We're about out of time, but I'd love to hear another song if you got one more. We're going to do Worship the Lamb, and that's actually the one that we redid from our independent release. So it's a new kind of updated version, and we're going to hopefully be releasing that

to radio in a few weeks. So we're excited about that one. Well, I think we might have done it last time, but we'll do it again. I know. I want to sing a song that's never been heard. I want to write the emotion when I can't find the words. There is nothing I could say I could sing to give an adequate description. And my glory is king, for you are indescribable, and that's all I will say.

Hallelujah to the great I Am. All that is, all that has ever been. All consumed in love that never ends. So let us come, let us worship the Lamb. Let us come, let us worship the Lamb. For every thought in the intelligent mind. For every brilliant invention that history provides. There is nothing I could form, I could bring, that could be added to this splendor of my glorious

king. For you are unchangeable, for you are unchangeable, and that's why we say. Hallelujah to the great I Am. All that is, all that is, all that has ever been. All consumed in love that never ends. So let us come, let us worship the Lamb. Let us come, let us worship the Lamb. At my best I am, my best I am, my best I am, my best I am.

At my best I am, my best I am, my best I am. At my best I am, my best I am, my best I am. At my best I am, my best I am. For me are unchangeable, and that's why we say. To the great I Am. It's all that has ever been. All consumed in love that never ends. Let us come, let us worship the Lamb.

Let us come, let us worship the Lamb. Let us come, let us worship the Lamb. Well, thank you guys so much for stopping in. We really appreciate it. Thanks for having us. Thanks for having us back. For those of you who are listening, we'll be back again here at 10 o'clock. Shane Vanderhart will be in the studio.

We'll be talking with him, and then we'll replay this so that you may enjoy it again. Thank you for listening to Live from the Path. We'll see you later on tonight.