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From being kicked out of high school to becoming a father at age 17, Christian country singer Rhett Walker admits his journey through life has not always been easy. However, his faith carried him through as he is releasing his newest album, “Days That We Dreamed Of.”
The pastor’s kid formed the Rhett Walker Band in 2011 when he moved to Nashville. His first success came with “When Mercy Found Me.”
In interviews, he’s shared his musical and faith journey including the ups and downs. “My biggest thing, since I was a kid, has been authenticity. I think you can write a song that means something to just you, and that, most of the time, will end up relating to most people. They might not have lived that story, but they can relate it to something in their own life,” he said in a podcast with Nashville Christian Songwriters.
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“My first record came out in 2012, and that was my testimony, from teenage pregnancy to trying to figure out my senior year of high school to getting a job, all of these things,” Walker told “The Christian Post.” “I was looking at this new record and thinking about me and her, we’ve been married for 20 years this past July 3, and I was like, ‘Man, this, this has been a journey for the past 20 years.’ Just all the things that God’s brought us through, all these potholes that you’ve driven through in life, and you’re like, ‘Man, every time, he’s been faithful and brought me through these things.'”
He described his latest release as the culmination of two decades of “life experiences and lessons learned” and inspired by a realization during a conversation with his wife.
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Man On The Middle Cross pic.twitter.com/ZS6X7Iq2Sv— Rhett Walker (@rhettwalker) July 10, 2023
“We were sitting on the back porch, and April said, ‘We’re living in the days that we dreamed of,'” he recounted. “I was like, ‘Yeah, like, we really are.’ I don’t think for anybody that it’s just a smooth ride. Life can be hell to walk through, and some go there and back many times. But if you really are looking at your life and what God has set up, man, these are the days that we’ve dreamed of.”
Walker’s experiences have taught him not to take simple things for granted.
“It’s not about what your house looks like, the car that you drive, the money in your bank account,” he said. “If you have a family that loves each other and is excited to see mama come home from work and daddy come home, and you’re living life with each other all while looking at Jesus and trying to push forward and going, ‘God, whatever you have for us,’ that’s a beautiful life.”
–Dwight Widaman | Metro Voice
