Just that idea of something being out of my hands - which feels out of control - but that’s being painted as a beautiful thing. We got in the room a couple of times to finish it up. We brought it to Jeremy, and he kept that chorus the same way and wrote a bunch of verses and we were sending it back and forth. That was a chorus that Jeff Sojka and I had. “Jericho” was doing so well, and we are working on his next record. I still feel like my main role is being a topliner - but when there’s an opportunity to, it is fun stepping into a different kind of creative space. That was the first time I ever produced a song, too. A lot of doors have opened for him that he’s walking through, so that’s exciting. Maybe it won’t be in the top of the chart because we don’t have a label or whatever, but maybe we can put a song out.” Neither of us expected it to go to No. I think at the time, it was like, “Well, maybe we can play in this arena and put a song out every now and then.
It was a process for him, but it was the song that did it. There was definitely a journey of him even wanting to release a song at Christian radio. We’re going, “How is anybody going to even know who they are to add them and play the song?” It wasn’t a rocket ship straight to the top - it moved pretty slow - but the themes in that song really connected and that’s a special part of the story.Īndrew is one of my neighbors and best friends. Their tour cancels, and we’ve got a song at radio. They were one of those bands that had that story, right? Everything was perfectly teed up - and a pandemic hits. When it came out, we were kind of worried. There was a lot of things stacked up against that song. I think right off the bat, the idea of a resurrection song that had more to do with ‘Wake up from your sleep and start living the life you were meant to live’ was an inspiring idea. Somewhere along the line, someone had the guts to say, “Should we try a different idea completely?” I remember bringing up the title “Lazarus,” and it was just called “Lazarus” at the time. We had spent all morning chasing a different idea and it wasn’t quite working. Nick Schwarz and I had been writing together a bit and he’s a producer on their project. I remember very quickly, Zach started adding lyrics and the song happened really fast. We brought it to Zach and it was a somewhat fleshed-out chorus. Colby and I had written a few times before, so we got together the night before and started up that chorus. It was very early on with Zach and he was kind of still making trips to Nashville. I just want to keep growing as a writer.īelow, Hulse offers some of the stories behind his hit songs. I hope that’s the next part of the journey, and I know that I will always be connected to Christian music, and worship music in particular, because it’s a part of me. I would love for more country opportunities and pop opportunities to kind of open up. In perhaps a nod to his bluegrass roots, Hulse says he hopes to expand his songwriting to transcend genres: “I like being a little bit of a musical chameleon, kind of jumping into different spaces and stuff. “‘Old Church Choir’ was his second single and it just soared.” The song stayed atop Billboard’s Christian Airplay chart for 20 weeks and earned a GMA Dove Award for best pop/contemporary recorded song of the year. “Zach’s career was just starting to rise, so we had that song after ‘Chain Breaker’ had gone No. The couple settled in Franklin, Tenn., and Hulse soon began making connections within the songwriting community and booking co-writing sessions, leading to his signing with Essential Music Publishing and soon after, writing “Old Church Choir” with Williams and Colby Wedgeworth. We got connected pretty quickly, thankfully enough.” “We moved out here with no jobs or anything. If we hate it in a year, we can move back.’” Hulse says. “We were in our twenties, we didn’t have kids, and we thought, ‘Let’s try Nashville. In songwriting, I try to write music where people feel like they’ve always known that song.”Īfter spending eight years as a worship leader at Mariner’s Church in Irvine, Calif., Hulse and his wife took a chance and moved to Nashville in 2015. The best things are the most simple and bluegrass kind of draws on tradition. Bluegrass has had an impact just in the way it resembles communal singing and communal participation, which I feel relates to what worship music is.
“I didn’t have like the classic rock dad - I had the bluegrass dad. “Nobody in my family plays professionally, but my dad plays bluegrass music,” he says.
Lauren Daigle, Zach Williams & More Vie for Artist of the Year at 2021 GMA Dove AwardsĬalifornia native Hulse picked up a guitar for the first time when he was seven years old and was leading church worship services by the time he was in junior high school.
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